https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/02/01/covid-real-estate-bay-area-hotel-open-develop-build-huge-hit-2020/ > SAN JOSE — Coronavirus-linked economic woes torpedoed hotel activity in the Bay Area and all of California in 2020, according to a new report that sketches out the widening impacts of the deadly bug on the lodging sector. > The number of hotels that opened in both Northern California and Southern California, as well as the number of hotels under construction, plummeted during 2020 compared to 2019, a report by Irvine-based Atlas Hospitality Group shows.