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May/June 2020


VIRGINIA’S SOURCE FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE


23 VirginiaBusiness.com Cover illustration by Vicente Martí 2 |


SPECIAL REPORT: TOURISM


AND LODGING Virginia hotels, attractions


shut down during pandemic contact us


BERNARD A. NIEMEIER president & publisher bniemeier@virginiabusiness.com (804) 225-1366


RICHARD FOSTER editor


rfoster@virginiabusiness.com (804) 225-8859


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KATE ANDREWS deputy editor kandrews@virginiabusiness.com (804) 225-5591


SYDNEY LAKE assistant editor slake@virginiabusiness.com (804) 225-6942


JOEL SMITH art director jsmith@virginiabusiness.com (804) 225-0433


LORI COLLIER WARAN vice president of sales & marketing lwaran@virginiabusiness.com (804) 225-0078


KAREN CHENAULT circulation manager kchenault@virginiabusiness.com (804) 225-9262


24 Unconventional times


Hotels closed, workers furloughed as convention biz dries up by Maria Howard


28 Delay of game Sports tourism takes a timeout amid coronavirus by Don Harrison


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