The entry quarantine "0+3" will be implemented from Monday (26th), and arrivals are no longer required to stay in designated quarantine hotels. However, a total of 62 hotels have participated in the eighth round of quarantine hotels, which were originally scheduled to end on October 31st.
According to the Medical and Health Bureau, the government will pay the participating hotels a "coverage" fee for the next 30 days according to the contract. As long as the hotel occupancy rate is less than half, it will benefit.
According to the Medical and Health Bureau, from the first round in December 2020 to the end of the sixth round in February this year, the government has distributed a total of about 100 million yuan in subsidies to hotels, and is still processing subsidy applications for March this year and beyond.
0+3|Quarantine hotels were originally scheduled to end at the end of October, and the government had to pay a maximum of more than 200 million for 30 days
▼September 26th, the first day of entry quarantine "0+3" implementation▼
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The guaranteed period is 30 days from the announcement of the "0+3" measures
According to sources in the hotel industry, there is a clause in the contract between the government and the quarantine hotel that states that if the plan is to stop, the "back-up" period will be 30 days from the date of the government's announcement.
The government announced on September 23 that it would relax the "0+3" measures, and the minimum guarantee period will be until October 23.
As long as the hotels participating in the quarantine hotel program have an occupancy rate of less than 50% in the next month, they will benefit.
The Medical and Health Bureau stated that when the government launched the designated quarantine hotel program, it made it clear that if the average occupancy rate of a hotel in a certain month was less than 50%, the government would provide subsidies.
The method of calculating the bottom of the package is as follows:
The lowest hotel price is 70% or 600 yuan (whichever is lower) X (50% - actual occupancy rate) X number of rooms
▼The eighth round of quarantine hotel prices▼
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The hotel must accept all types of guests for the remainder of the contract period
The bureau stated that the occupancy rate of designated quarantine hotels fluctuated with the development of the epidemic, and most of the time the government did not need to provide subsidies to hotels.
However, from the first round in December 2020 to the sixth round in February this year, the government has distributed a total of about 100 million yuan in subsidies to hotels.
The bureau is still processing applications for funding from March this year and beyond, so the relevant funding amount cannot be provided for the time being.
After the announcement of the end of the designated quarantine hotel program, the government immediately gave each hotel a 30-day notice period to terminate the contract in accordance with the relevant provisions, and instructed them to accept all types of guests during the remaining contract period in order to increase the occupancy rate. The amount to be subsidized will then be recalculated with the hotel based on its actual occupancy rate.
The eighth round of quarantine hotels provides about 23,600 rooms
The government announced on the 13th of this month that, together with the newly added hotels and the hotels that had been terminated earlier due to different reasons, there are 62 quarantine hotels participating in the eighth round of the plan, providing a total of about 23,600 rooms.
If the occupancy rate of this batch of hotels is zero for the next month, and the upper limit of 600 yuan is used as the calculation, the government's daily cost of "subsidizing" half of the rooms is 7.08 million yuan, which is about 210 million yuan in 30 days.
▼On September 25, the airport quarantine hotel diversion station will operate on the last day▼
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