Is his hotel flopping? I mean the reports are that activist groups are flocking on his hotel like a hornet’s nest, to be sure. Still, it sounds like most of his employees stayed on. They weren’t so infuriated as to denigrate him across the board.
Perhaps they realized his method might pay off and they would still have jobs long into the future.
This sounds for all the world like an attempt to black-ball the guy who tried something different.
At this point the question is, will his hotel flop on it’s own, or will it flop because the usual suspect Hispanic activist groups assassinated the owner’s and there-by the hotel’s reputation.
Perhaps he should just promise $10 million or so to these complainer groups so they’ll go away, like Jessie Jackson always does after payouts.
I don’t know if “most” did or didn’t stay there.
It’s certainly complicated by the presence of the protesters. Whitten does not appear bent on hearing them out any time soon. If they do demand payola for silence like Jesse Jackson does, we know they didn’t really care about the character of the town but about the grease on their palms.
There are other things like the suffering economy that also complicate the situation. Maybe Taos simply has too many hotels now.