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Accor remains open in Russia, but “does not pay taxes”, assures its CEO

2022-04-02T10:01:04.155Z


CEO Sébastien Bazin defends the usefulness for his employees of the presence of the hotel giant in Russia.


The French hotel group Accor continues to operate in Ukraine as in Russia, because it provides

"extremely precious, even essential"

services there , defended its CEO Sébastien Bazin on Saturday on France Inter, adding that it was not contributing to the effort to Russian war because he

"pays no taxes"

in Russia.

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"I don't make money there, so no one can tell me that I'm funding the

Russian war" in Ukraine, he said.

“I don't pay taxes because I lose money there, we are at 32% occupancy rate while we are starting to earn money at 55%”.

"We are present in difficult times all over the world, Accor has never in 50 years closed a hotel in a conflict zone

," he explained.

“Collaborators are the only thing I care about, if they are not there we cannot function.

I have 3,800 of them in Russia in 55 hotels of which I am not the owner but the manager and therefore responsible for these employees”.

Accor still present in Russia and Ukraine

He felt that

"the service we provide in Russia is extremely valuable, even essential for the media, charities, foreign delegations who come to negotiate, and if we close you will no longer have any witnesses there".

Sébastien Bazin assured that he perceived in his Russian collaborators a distress

"greater than that of those in Ukraine".

“In Ukraine there is a kind of positive energy, smiles, the employees are there, in distress with full hotels, whereas in Russia we have people in tears, who do not understand the situation, to whom I try to explain things that are the opposite of what they are told on television.

“I am sorry to tell you this but there is greater distress among my collaborators in Russia than that which I receive in Ukraine, for reasons which are obviously totally different”

, he said, specifying that his collaborators Ukrainians

“do not ask to close in Russia”.

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The group, which had 7 hotels in Ukraine, has

"three more open in Kiev and Lviv"

and has repatriated many of its 700 employees to the country, detailed the CEO of Accor.

And

“100% of our attention is on Ukraine”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently accused French companies continuing their activity in Russia before the French parliament of being

"sponsors of Russia's war machine",

as important taxpayers.

Source: lefigaro

All business articles on 2022-04-02

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