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Easter holiday 2021 canceled? Prime Minister sees no chance for travel - industry outraged

2021-02-15T15:16:58.201Z


At Easter, many Germans usually travel. In 2021 it could look very different due to the corona pandemic. Is there no chance of a vacation?


At Easter, many Germans usually travel.

In 2021 it could look very different due to the corona pandemic.

Is there no chance of a vacation?

“I am in favor of speaking truths.

Unfortunately, there can be no Easter holiday in Germany this year,

”said Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer to“ Bild am Sonntag ”.

“Too much mobility through travel and tourism in April is poison.

We would destroy everything we have achieved since mid-December, ”he continued.

He received support from the SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach: “I am not assuming that we will be able to take an Easter holiday this year.

We have to use the Easter weeks to avert the still threatening third wave with the dangerous mutations with as little contact as possible.

I would be happy if we even make it to Easter without a third wave ”, he explained to the news portal“ Welt ”.

Easter vacation 2021: travel over the holidays not possible?

Does that mean, for example, that the Easter holiday in 2021 * has to fall completely into the water?

As far as easing for Easter is concerned,

the federal government does not

want to commit itself

at this point in time

.

As the government spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday in Berlin, “there is a lot to suggest that we will now wait for the development of the next few weeks and then assess which easing is possible at what point in time.” However, the government is working on reuniting Easter 2021 A completely different festival than in 2020. The situation is developing positively with a view to the new infections and the number of intensive care treatments, "but this situation is still uncertain".

The government is particularly concerned about the spread of the mutations.

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Corona 2021: Travel industry outraged about statements about Easter holidays

The travel industry is appalled by Kretschmer's rejection of the Easter holiday: “After we were not mentioned in the decision last week

to make

such statements here for

uncertainty and existential hardships

, is

completely unacceptable

.

In addition, it is also

legally questionable,

”said Ingrid Hartges, head of the German Hotel and Restaurant Association Dehoga, including the broadcaster n-tv.

The Infection Protection Act only allows closings for four weeks at a time.

“We expect a concrete opening perspective.

We have been closed since November 2nd.

It definitely doesn't work that way. "

Even Göran Holst, chairman of the German holiday home association, cannot understand such blanket statements: "There is equal treatment, although there are

different issues

!", He explained according to RTL.

In his opinion, a clear distinction should be made between the individual forms of accommodation, after all, the conditions in hotels, for example, are very different from those in holiday apartments.

“In an apartment I don't have a breakfast room where people meet, I don't have an elevator where people meet, at most like in a normal residential building.

And that means, in the abstract, the risk of being infected is much, much lower, and that is why our appeal is: Allow an earlier vacation in holiday apartments than in other forms of accommodation!

Whether you can travel normally again at Easter is still in the stars.

However, at least Thomas Bareiß, tourism commissioner of the federal government, made hope that the travel company could slowly get going again at Whitsun.

(fk) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network.

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Source: merkur

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