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The hotel and catering industry in Pfaffenwinkel breathes a sigh of relief and is still afraid of autumn

2022-06-23T08:07:43.339Z


The hotel and catering industry in Pfaffenwinkel breathes a sigh of relief and is still afraid of autumn Created: 06/23/2022, 10:00 am By: Rafael Sala The hosts in the Weilheim-Schongau area are happy to have good-humoured guests like these: These two young couples are enjoying their beer in Landhaus Gut Hub in Penzberg with a view of the Hub chapel and the Benediktenwand. © EMANUEL GRONAU Bre


The hotel and catering industry in Pfaffenwinkel breathes a sigh of relief and is still afraid of autumn

Created: 06/23/2022, 10:00 am

By: Rafael Sala

The hosts in the Weilheim-Schongau area are happy to have good-humoured guests like these: These two young couples are enjoying their beer in Landhaus Gut Hub in Penzberg with a view of the Hub chapel and the Benediktenwand.

© EMANUEL GRONAU

Breathe a sigh of relief in Pfaffenwinkel: The hotel and catering industry can draw on the full again with the abolition of the Corona requirements.

The Dehoga district association Weilheim-Schongau is happy.

But the all-clear is not in sight.

Next autumn is coming, and there could also be problems with the final accounts for receiving subsidies and bridging funds.

District

– Hardly any other industry has been hit as hard by the corona pandemic as the hotel and catering industry.

The number of visitors was melting away, staff were leaving, the constant implementation of hygiene and safety regulations, closures, plus a monster of almost unmanageable bureaucracy: the nerves were usually more than blank.

Some did not survive the time and had to close their facility.

The district meeting of the Bavarian Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga) Bavaria in the Weilheim-Schongau district association took place under corresponding auspices.

The good news first: Things are looking up.

The speakers were relieved, and there was something like joy.

Glad all restrictions have fallen

"A big thank you for persevering," said Weilheim's Deputy Mayor Angelika Flock (CSU) in her welcome speech.

"I am full of respect for what your association has achieved over the past two years." It is important to look positively into the future again.

Since April of this year, many things have been possible again without restrictions: "Celebrations, festivals and overnight stays can take place regularly again." All of this has been on hold since March 20, 2020, when social life in Bavaria was shut down for the first time.

Spoke from a "grueling time" for the hotel and catering industry in the region: Weilheim's Deputy Mayor Angelika Flock.

© Sala

Flock described the situation during the pandemic as “extremely difficult”.

The constant back and forth with the lockdowns, personnel planning with a thousand question marks, basically, hardly being able to afford, applications for subsidies, emergency or bridging aid fraught with uncertainty - and above all the sword of Damocles of constantly changing requirements from state authorities: "I can I can imagine that this was all one of the most grueling things.”

The district of Weilheim-Schongau is still in a comparatively good position, as Susanne Lengger from the Pfaffenwinkel Tourist Association demonstrated with figures.

The losses in the industry would amount to around 22 percent.

"Not so bad when you consider how it was in other areas." There, the rate sometimes climbed over the 50 percent mark.

Mountain of problems could come

Among other things, Weilheim has benefited from the tailor-made offer for conference and meeting guests, the winter season hardly plays a role in this country.

However, a mountain of problems could still be waiting afterwards - when it comes to the final accounts for the funding applications that have been submitted, which are currently being processed in blocks by the test centers.

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Management consultant Andreas Steigenberger drew the restaurateurs' attention to the crux of the matter with subsidies and bridging funds.

© Sala

According to Andreas Steinberger from the management consultancy "Ecovis", the constantly changing and intensifying FAQs ("Frequently Asked Questions") could become a problem.

In concrete terms, the situation could arise that the framework conditions that applied when funding was approved no longer apply – or at least have been changed.

Caution is advised here, "because the thing always ends up on the table at the tax office".

Especially since nobody knows how things will continue in the fall.

Stricter conditions than at present are likely to prevail again.

continuity at the top

In any case, the catering industry in the Weilheim-Schongau region can look forward to continuity: the "old" team of the Dehoga Association Weilheim-Schongau is also the "new".

New elections confirmed the following people in office: Peter Kuchler as district chairman, Katharina Haller as his deputy, Michael Fischer as second deputy, Lorenz Mayr as secretary and Martina Schmid as cashier.

By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Schongau newsletter.

Source: merkur

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