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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/business/hotels-transformation-offices-shelters-coronavirus.html Like many other hotels during the pandemic the InterContinental Times Square is suffering. Since tourists have stopped coming the hotel has gotten creative with ways to fill their 607-room property. They decided to lease their rooms as offices to people who still want to work away from home, even if their offices aren't open. The InterContinental is set to open later this month, but people who are renting are more then welcome to stay. New York has leased at least 63 of the city's 700 hotels to house homeless residents who are vulnerable to the coronavirus. The city pays $120 per room per night to the hotels, which have received 9,500 people during the pandemic, most who are still there. Miami took the same approach for trying to keep their hotels going too. Five hotels designated as housing for doctors, homeless and Covid-19 patients, housing more than 2,100 people from July to September. The state covering the rooms and meals cost. Hotels seem eager to have people stay because they need the money, even though they have had to evict people for setting up a meth lab in one of the rooms. They still remain positive saying, "But we have also saved lives by stopping a pyramid of people from being infected." Discussion Question: What are the pros and cons of selling rooms this way? Who are the stakeholders and what are the various points of view? What are some other ways hotels can be filled during the pandemic?