I believe I asked this question last year, and here I am asking again. When they estimate the costs of these natural disasters, such as Superstorm Sandy, perhaps it is insurance only $ guestimate, but what about the inns who lose business due to this? Not damaged, but loss of revenue. The two obv reasons they don't travel, flights have all been cancelled, or they go home, we lose bookings. Many of us did.
I think I asked about this as there didn't seem to be any real numbers, and somehow we were left out in the cold. I was calculating my end-of-year totals to compare to last year, as I always do and then remembered we had:
#1 the Derecho (roof peeled off and trees torn apart, water damage inside, couldn't accept any guests)
#2 the power outages (no power, no a/c! had to cancell all rooms already booked)
#3 the lightning damage (had to close for THAT one to get much repaired to be operational again)
#4 Sandy (Had to turn people away in case we lost power and it was a liability issue - with the big tree a possible danger here).
So the total loss of revenue would have been about $1500-2500. Which is not a huge amount, but total them up from all of us and it could be substantial.
Your thoughts?
I think I asked about this as there didn't seem to be any real numbers, and somehow we were left out in the cold. I was calculating my end-of-year totals to compare to last year, as I always do and then remembered we had:
#1 the Derecho (roof peeled off and trees torn apart, water damage inside, couldn't accept any guests)
#2 the power outages (no power, no a/c! had to cancell all rooms already booked)
#3 the lightning damage (had to close for THAT one to get much repaired to be operational again)
#4 Sandy (Had to turn people away in case we lost power and it was a liability issue - with the big tree a possible danger here).
So the total loss of revenue would have been about $1500-2500. Which is not a huge amount, but total them up from all of us and it could be substantial.
Your thoughts?