The Compagnie des Alpes will put around 3,900 people on short-time work, due to the closure of ski lifts and leisure parks during the Christmas holidays, its CEO Dominique Marcel said in an interview with
Les Échos on
Sunday.
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"
2,500 people
", mainly seasonal workers, will be put on partial unemployment due to the closure of ski lifts in ski resorts, said Dominique Marcel.
The extension of the closure of leisure parks such as Parc Astérix or Futuroscope, managed by the Compagnie des Alpes, will lead to partial unemployment for "
nearly 1,400 people
" also, he explained.
Incomprehensible decisions
Dominique Marcel considers
the two decisions
"
incomprehensible
".
On ski resorts, the industry had "
negotiated an extremely rigorous + resort + protocol
" to avoid such a situation, he says.
"
The industry is meeting the Prime Minister on Monday, and we are still fighting
," he said.
As for the leisure parks, "
we demonstrated this summer that we could work with a limited capacity and a rigorous sanitary protocol
", he indicates.
The turnover of Compagnie des Alpes has already suffered a "
shortfall
" of 240 million euros for its financial year ended September 30, "
a decrease of 28%
" in annual turnover, said the manager.
At 65, he has been the CEO of Compagnie des Alpes since March 2009 and will soon leave the post of CEO to keep only that of Chairman.
This transition is envisaged for the expiration of his current mandate, in March, but "
it is not excluded that I will still remain CEO a little after March,
" he said.
The listed company, in which Caisse des Dépôts holds nearly 40% of the capital, is the world leader in ski area operations with 11 resorts.
It also has leisure destinations (Futuroscope, Parc Astérix, Grévin).