Beauty salons, nail salons, massage parlors… Tuesday, on the eve of the first stage of deconfinement, well-being professionals were on a war footing. If May 19 marks the reopening of the terraces first and foremost, activities involving contact and touch, indoors, are also making a comeback in French life.
"We are not full for the 19th, but I am very optimistic,"
says Robert Hudson, manager of the Laï Thai massage institute. Installed for fourteen years in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, the show, which has 85% of regulars, had also achieved, before the reconfinement in November, a turnover higher than 2019.
“In a difficult context, people want to relax, to have fun.
During the re-containment, we sold a lot of gift vouchers
,
”
explains the manager.
The seven practitioners of the institute have already received the first injection of the vaccine.
Customer reception will be reduced.
It will only be done by appointment, with temperature measurement at the entrance, respecting barrier gestures.
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People call a lot, but they wait before they book.
They want to be sure they can leave
Philippe Rio, director of thalassotherapy at Carnac (56)
With the health instructions in force, the return to the pleasures of life will not be completely "normal". President of the National Council of Thermal Establishments (CNETh), Thierry Dubois does not hide his anger. Negotiations with the government for the reopening, from May 19, of the ninety spas in France resulted in a protocol that borders on the absurd. The curists will have to present a negative PCR test of less than 72 hours.
"A vaccination certificate can not replace the test,"
says the Thermal chain of the Sun on its website. If this chain of twenty establishments, with the efficient organization, was able to put itself in order of battle, this is not the case of all the stations.
"How to prevent the curists who will arrive tomorrow?
Why would the vaccination certificate not suffice?
In June 2020, when we reopened under strict protocol, we had no problem.
There was no cluster! ”
, launches Thierry Dubois, who is desperately awaiting the relaxations promised by the Ministry of Health.
Nightclubs waiting
At the thalassotherapy center in Carnac (56), the director, Philippe Rio, looks grim.
Its center will reopen on May 19, for dry care only, before all activities reopen on June 9.
“People call a lot, but they wait before they book.
They want to be sure they can leave, ”he
explains.
For thalassotherapy, spas, hammams and saunas, the resumption will take place on June 9, with a gauge of 35% of the authorized workforce.
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Sports establishments will be open from May 19 for priority audiences (schools, high-level athletes, disabled or on medical prescription). In the open air, non-contact sports will be allowed for all. It is only on June 9 that contact sports, both outdoors and indoors, will be allowed for the general public.
Nightclubs will have to wait, the government having set a "review clause" in mid-June.
“If the key to reopening is the health pass, we are in favor
,” explains Rémi Calmon, representative of the Union of Festive Places and Diversity (Sneg & Co).
Anything that does not happen in establishments open to the public will necessarily take place elsewhere, in the private sphere. We saw what happened this summer, ”he
adds.