{"id":11259,"date":"2021-10-18T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T22:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/?p=11259"},"modified":"2025-02-15T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:24:03","slug":"staffing-shortages-may-affect-your-next-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/staffing-shortages-may-affect-your-next-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Staffing Shortages May Affect Your Next Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pack your patience as the travel industry struggles with staffing shortages.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>by Bill Fink,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aarp.org\/\">AARP<\/a>,  October 13, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Staff Shortages due to the pandemic. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the tourism slowdown at the height of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aarp.org\/coronavirus\/\/\">pandemic<\/a>, many airlines, hotels, restaurants, and attractions cut back operations, laid-off employees, or closed altogether. Now, as travel has begun to rebound, many of those businesses find themselves short of staff and resources. 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Due to the tourism slowdown at the height of the&nbsp;pandemic, many airlines, hotels, restaurants, and attractions cut back operations, laid-off employees, or closed altogether. Now, as travel has begun to rebound, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,148,1,343,349,2],"tags":[1786,1787,1789,15,31,12,77,62,1785,1788],"class_list":["post-11259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-blog","category-health-ins-blog","category-insurance","category-life-insurance","category-recreational-insurance","category-shield-blog","tag-airline","tag-airline-travel","tag-book-early","tag-business","tag-commercial-insurance","tag-health-insurance","tag-insurance","tag-shield-insurance-agency","tag-staffing-shortages","tag-travel-industry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11415,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions\/11415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}