"
It's a question of survival
," assures Jean-Bernard Falco, founding president of the Paris Inn Group hotel group.
Calling into question the legitimacy of the health measures taken by the State is not our responsibility;
but we ask that their economic consequences not be borne by private actors. ”
On Thursday, the manager created the Tourism Sector Collective, which already brings together 2000 professionals in the hotel and restaurant industry.
The sector is the one paying the heaviest price for the pandemic.
Bars and restaurants are administratively closed, hotels are deserted due to confinement and travel restrictions.
Three helpers
Insofar as
"the most optimistic forecasts do not foresee a return to equilibrium before mid-2022 at the earliest"
, the group is asking the State for three aids: the one-year extension of partial unemployment measures, until the end of 2021;
intervention with banks to encourage them to extend the postponement of loan maturities until March 2022;
the commitment to compensate tourism companies for the loss of the gross operating surplus compared to 2019, taking into account, of course, the other support measures.
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This would compensate for the shortfall of companies since March 15.
Much better than compensation for the costs of closure during negotiations with the unions in the sector, from which the collective wants to stand out.
Wishful thinking?
"We wish to attract the attention of the President of the Republic before his intervention on Tuesday evening," said
Jean-Bernard Falco.
Anger is brewing in the sector: Friday, the association of franchisees Accor, which brings together the owners of 1,224 hotels, wrote to Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of the Economy, to ask him for the same aid as that granted to VSEs and Independent SMEs.
