Business digest - Oct. 14

Department to host workshop

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Tourism Department will host a small business resiliency workshop Oct. 27 to help tourism-related businesses develope strategies going forward.

The workshop, done in partnership with the New Mexico Small Business Development Center and Law 4 Small Business, will run 8 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Oct. 27. The event will feature representatives from NMTD, the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions, the New Mexico Hospitality Association, the Small Business Administration and other organizations.

Business advisors and legal experts will be on hand to provide tourism business owners with information and recommendations, and the event will also feature projections of short-term and long-term economic scenarios and panel discussions with economic experts on managing capital and improving operations.

“With tourism visitation down by roughly 50 percent this year, it is an extremely difficult time for small business owners, and we don’t ever want them to feel like they are alone,” Cabinet Secretary Jen Paul Schroer said in a NMTD release.

The morning will cover the outlook of tourism in a post-COVID world and feature a panel discussion, while the afternoon will feature breakout sessions on conflict and dispute resolution, financial pitfalls and solutions, human resources and pivoting operations.

Information: newmexico.org/

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