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"People want to flee Israel, convert their vacation in Israel abroad"
The closure during the holidays is causing despair among hoteliers and tourists who have just begun to recover, and on the other hand a flood of inquiries to travel agencies, which convert their vacations in Israel to others abroad. "The flight to Burgas was filled in three hours," say one agency.
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Ziv Reinstein
Monday, 14 September 2020, 10:39
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In the video: The Prime Minister's statement on the closure during the holidays (Photo: GPO)
A three-week closure, which includes all the Tishrei holidays, is a bit of a blow to Israeli tourism, especially after a recovery in the industry has already been seen in recent months.
Hotel owners in the country, who were uncertain about the holidays, received last night (Sunday) the bad news of the government's decision to close the country during the holidays.
"It's crazy!"
Says the CEO of the Fattal hotel chain, her father Mizrahi-Magen, in a call to Walla! Tourism. "This week we are working and fail to understand whether there is an outline or not, and if Ben Gurion Airport remains open, there is no reason that Ben Gurion Airport will not continue to serve those who booked Vacations in Eilat or Tiberias.
The state economy is no less important and so are the hundreds of thousands of workers who have returned to work, and this should be a top priority for decision makers.
According to her, the network is working to approve an outline for a vacation in Eilat, similar to the one they approved for vacations in Greece, with checkpoints and corona checks.
"Eilat is a green city and there is no reason why there should not be a safe vacation there even on holidays," she adds, "The people of Israel should go on vacation abroad and in Israel."
According to her, the consequences of another closure will be especially devastating for tourist cities such as Eilat, Tiberias, restaurants and other businesses.
"We brought back 4,000 workers and they, unfortunately, will have to return to the IDF.
It is inconceivable. "
Rural tourism also does not understand the sweeping decision on the closure, probably in hotels that are closer to nature." The feeling is of frustration, that there is a wrongdoing of the decision, "says Bat Chen Yeshua, CEO of the travel hotel chain," especially in tourism A rural person who is in nature, who has social distance and spaces, so it is not clear why the decision is sweeping. "
According to her, the hotel chain in the north has high occupancy until the 18th of the month (New Year's Eve), and then it will have to take the workers to the Knesset. "We will fold the hotels for the month, including Sukkot until October 11," she says. "Inadvertently cancel the orders, but people have asked to wait until the announcement, and now it is necessary to inadvertently cancel, return advances and move the orders forward."
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Fattal is working to approve a holiday outline similar to Greece.
Hotels in Eilat (Photo: Shutterstock)
"Crazy wave of cancellations"
The Magdala Hotel on the Sea of Galilee, which opened about a year ago and closed immediately, has only just begun to recover from the first closure.
“In August, oxygen came from the guests, and during the holidays there had to be some more oxygen to survive the fall,” says Alon Winter, hotel manager, “but as of yesterday there is a crazy wave of cancellations.
All Rosh Hashanah we are 80 percent less than we used to be, all September bookings are canceled and for Sukkot we have just started preparing.
It is not known what will happen, and we have lost a lot of money in the coming month.
That was our recovery. "
He said he was considering whether to open or close the hotel by March in order to survive, and 40 of the 70 workers he returned from sick leave went on unpaid leave again.
"I hope the government thinks what to do," he adds, "closure is the easiest but we are angry and sad because to open and close, to open and close, it is not something simple."
But it is not just hotels that are facing heavy losses.
Tourists are also about to lose a significant portion of their recovery last summer.
Mickey Inbar, marketing manager at the Hermon site, says, "From the moment the closure ended in Shavuot, it was a great and successful year because visitors came on their own and it was an excellent summer. The amount of visitors passed that of the previous summer
"We had eight tours a day in August and they were all blown up."
She says summer activity on Mount Hermon ends at the end of Sukkot, Inbar says that if there is a point of light in the corona, it is that people who hike discovered Mount Hermon in the summer. "But we are facing winter," she concludes.
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Magdala Hotel (Photo: Ziv Reinstein)
Sand reservation centers are flooded
Those who actually "enjoy" the closure or at least the state of cancellation of vacations in the country, are the travel agencies.
Various companies report a flood of inquiries from Israelis seeking to flee the country during the holidays.
Nir Mazor, vice president of aviation relations, who is currently on holiday in Greece, said that "we are seeing an increase in demand because people are looking to escape, and yesterday when it was not yet clear, people boarded flights wherever possible.
Our flight to Burgas on the 17th of the month was filled with three hours.
People can not stand the pressure. "
Mazur adds that people are looking for any way to escape for two to three weeks, and the company continues to operate flights to Crete, Rhodes, Bulgaria, Croatia into all the holidays." We are prepared in terms of manpower, "he adds. From vacations abroad to vacations in Israel, now we do the exact opposite and arrange flights abroad for everyone. "
You also chose the flying carpet.
"We take everyone who has ordered through us in Israel, and offer him attractive deals from abroad," says Oren Cohen Maguri, the company's VP of marketing.
"Most people have booked a holiday to Eilat, the Dead Sea and Tiberias, and we are giving them a deal to Rhodes, Crete, Zagreb, Dubrovnik from Rosh Hashanah until Sukkot."
According to him, those who paid NIS 5,000 for a vacation in Eilat receive an equivalent vacation abroad. "We start the flights at 17 and also open packages for 10 nights for those who want to escape the quarantine," he says. Their vacation and not being in quarantine, the focus here is flooded because there are no schools and no frameworks and there is an opportunity to convert the vacation in the country into a vacation abroad.
Just let go of the quarantine.
Dubrovnik (Photo: Shutterstock)
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