A statewide hotel association is expected to add its support.
Some 18,000 of them, the council said, are affected by the contract with the hotel association, which has 122 members.
Several hotels that are not members of the hotel association have agreed to pay triple time.
The hotel association has a lot of clout in this town.
American hotel associations only began to join in 1960.
As president of the local hotel association, he is designing a market strategy to revive international tourism here.
If you do not know of one in the city you are visiting, call a local hotel association or tourist office.
But the muddiness of the figures did not stop the hotel association from capitalizing on them.
A local hotel association said that a week after the rioting, its members had already recorded more than 26,000 cancellations.
New Orleans restaurant and hotel associations, along with other business groups, fought the wage hike.
