PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 12, 2020
On the same day hospitality and tourism industry leaders demanded more help to save their struggling industry, Gov. Janet Mills accelerated her administration’s reopening plan to allow overnight tourists to visit the state five days earlier than planned. Trade groups representing Maine’s hospitality and tourism businesses on Friday pitched an $800 million state bailout plan for an industry they warned was on the verge of collapse. The Mills administration is allowing tourists to begin visiting Maine and stay in paid lodging starting June 26, five days before the date they were allowed to come here under the administration’s phased reopening plan.