It's been a wild ride for the hotel industry over the past two years, and it's not over. Supply chain and staffing issues have morphed, but they're still prevalent. On top of that, companies have now added inflation to the list of woes.

Thousands of restaurants, theaters and other businesses in Texas impacted by the pandemic could be getting money thanks to a grant program in the works.

Visit San Antonio will host a job fair later this month aimed at helping hotels, restaurants and entertainment venues to fill hundreds of job openings.

SAN ANTONIO Editors note: This story was published through a partnership between the San Antonio Business Journal and KSAT. The company, which operates the Club Wyndham La Cascada and Club Wyndham Riverside Suites in San Antonio, informed the Texas Workforce Commission that it plans nearly two dozen additional layoffs in August. The Wyndham name has been tied to previous Alamo City layoffs. On April 1, I reported that the Wyndham San Antonio River Walk hotel had laid off 141 employees. Read more on other hospitality related layoffs at the San Antonio Business Journal.

SAN ANTONIO As Texas reopens, San Antonio's hospitality industry continues to figure out how to resume operations safely. Visit San Antonio President & CEO Cassandra Matej said many hotels are still in phase one of their reopening process. But it looks like between June 15 and June 19, the majority of the travel assets around the community will be reopened.To coincide with the reopening, Visit San Antonio is launching a campaign called Si San Antonio." When people come here from outside of San Antonio, theyre staying in hotels, Matej said. But not only are they paying hotel tax, theyre going to restaurants, theyre shopping, theyre going to museums.