Tried by the health crisis, the aquatic centers and the "public service concessionaires of swimming pools" are calling on the government to reopen quickly, announced on Tuesday the professional organization of the sports sector Union sport & cycle, relaying their demands.
"Today in a difficult situation", these some 400 public service representatives who suffered a loss of 60% of their turnover last year, "have approached the Union sport & cycle to make their voices heard. their voice with the government, ”a statement said.
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"If swimming pools and aquatic centers are authorized to accommodate priority audiences" at present, "more than half of the national park is closed", continues this text.
And the situation has been "aggravated by the successive openings and closings, since the beginning of the crisis", causing "difficulties of management and organization".
Fearing that “the cost linked to the measures put in place in the context of the health crisis” will “soon lead to definitive closure decisions” of establishments “everywhere on the territory”, the public service providers of swimming pools and centers aquatic "demand the reopening of their establishments from the first phase" of lifting of health restrictions.
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The Union sport & cycle claims to be "the first professional organization in the sport sector", bringing together "1,400 companies, more than 500 brands, 3,000 points of sale which achieve 11 billion euros in cumulative turnover and employ 80 000 employees ”.
She believes that these establishments are crucial to "reduce the risk of drowning, as the summer period, conducive to these accidents, is approaching."
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