First round of small-biz loan program futile for most hotels

UNH Professor Dan Innis weighed in on the economic aspects of the coronavirus outbreak

According to Daniel Innis, professor of marketing and hospitality management at the University of New Hampshire’s Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics, the PPP’s rollout has been “a mess.”

“I think a lot of small businesses thought, ‘I have a couple days to apply for this,’” Innis said. “But the money disappeared so quickly.”