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                    <h1 class="postitle"><a href=https://skift.com/2017/08/29/houston-hotels-bear-brunt-of-hurricane-harvey-and-already-weak-oil-markets/ class="colorbox">Houston Hotels Bear Brunt of Hurricane Harvey and Already Weak Oil Markets</a></h1>
                    <div class="single_metainfo"><a class="comm_date">August 29, 2017</a>  <a class="meta_auth">Ab Kuijer</a>                                        </div>
                    <div class="thn_post_wrap"><p><span style="font-style:italic;font-size:16px">By  <a class="colorbox" href="https://skift.com/2017/08/29/houston-hotels-bear-brunt-of-hurricane-harvey-and-already-weak-oil-markets/">Hui-yong Yu, Bloomberg</a></span>
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<p>Houston&#8217;s hotel market, already the worst-performing in the U.S., is poised to take a further beating from Hurricane Harvey as the natural disaster creates chaos in a city that&#8217;s been reeling from low oil prices for the past three years. Bloomberg</p>
<div><strong>Skift Take:</strong> Unfortunately for Houston, a natural disaster like Harvey will likely only make things even tougher for its already struggling hotel market.
<p>— Deanna Ting</p>
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<p>Houston&#8217;s hotel market, already the worst-performing in the U.S., is poised to take a further beating from <a class="colorbox" href="https://skift.com/2017/08/27/united-cancels-1000-flights-and-suspends-regional-jet-schedule-as-hurricane-harvey-brings-destruction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hurricane Harvey</a> as the natural disaster creates chaos in a city that&#8217;s been reeling from <a href="https://skift.com/2017/08/29/houston-hotels-bear-brunt-of-hurricane-harvey-and-already-weak-oil-markets/" class="colorbox" id="rssmi_more"> &#8230;read more</a>
<p>From:: <a href="https://skift.com/2017/08/29/houston-hotels-bear-brunt-of-hurricane-harvey-and-already-weak-oil-markets/" class="colorbox" title="Houston Hotels Bear Brunt of Hurricane Harvey and Already Weak Oil Markets">Skift</a></p>

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