2022 was a banner year for hotels and our nation.

For the second year straight, we moved closer to recovery and farther away from the throes of the pandemic. And thanks to the support of more than 30,000 of the best members in the world, the American Hotel & Lodging Association was able to rack up another year full of impressive advocacy accomplishments.

Federal Advocacy

Over the past year, AHLA’s Federal Affairs team focused on addressing the industry’s leading challenges, resulting in the following positive changes:

• Staffing shortages continue to threaten hotels’ ability to meet demand. And AHLA scored a big win on this front in October, when the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to release an additional 64,714 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for fiscal year 2023. This represents the single largest expansion of the H-2B cap in recent history. And because the announcement