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Ski resorts: professionals count on state aid

2021-02-09T20:43:19.984Z


For restaurant owners, hoteliers and mountain merchants, the February holidays - where most of the turnover is made - is already an economic disaster.


Hold on, with so few customers.

Due to the closure of the ski lifts, ski resorts are experiencing the worst of seasons.

Hoteliers, merchants, apartment and equipment rental companies are trying to get by.

A good part did not open;

the others work in slow motion.

The February vacation, usually the “big” of the season, is an economic disaster.

With rare exceptions - typically specialists in ski touring, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, dog sledding, etc. - professionals are reeling from a white season.

"82% of holidaymakers come first for alpine skiing,"

insists Vincent Rolland, deputy for the 2nd district of Savoie.

All skiing is over, but without skiing, everything is almost over!

In no case do cross-country skiing, ski touring and snowshoeing compensate for downhill skiing.

The situation is, alas, as difficult as feared. "

Representing 112 resorts, Agence Savoie Mont Blanc, which he co-chairs, affirms that

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Source: lefigaro

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