The measures of restriction of capacity and hours of the hotel industry, have rekindled the anger in the sector. They denounce that the punishment is not followed by compensation and criticize the lack of common sense in measures against the pandemic. Several associations will appeal the measures in court.
After learning about the restrictive measures for hours and capacity that both the Basque Government and the Government of Navarra have adopted to deal with the spread of the coronavirus, the hospitality sector does not hide its boredom for “being singled out as the main focus of the pandemic.”
According to Navarra Association of Small Hospitality Business (ANAPEH), with these measures “the two tendencies marked by this damn virus are corroborated: One, that when the hospitality industry is badly given, it is the sector indicated and punished, and two, that when this happens the institutions do not immediately put on the solutions table, compensation for the forced closure and for the loss of work and income “.
In Car, the Association of Hoteliers of Vitoria and Álava has gone further, and has asked for the resignation the Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, the Basque Health Minister, Gotzone Sagardui, and his entire advisory council (LABI), for “ruining” their sector and “endangering the health and future of the entire Basque population.” They also denounce the “disastrous management carried out during these almost two years of the pandemic” and criticize the “lack of common sense” in the measures. They have already announced that they will appeal the measure to the Superior Court of Justice of the Basque Country.
The manager of the Association of Hoteliers of Bizkaia, Héctor Sánchez, has announced that the sector will file an appeal against the measures adopted by the Basque Government to stop the spread of the pandemic in the face of the “coup” they pose to the hotel industry, which is left in a “dramatic” situation; They suggest, among other consequences, that they are left without the right to ERTE despite the “indirect closure”, or risk losing perishable food already purchased. In any case, they claim that in the event that the restrictions are “validated” by the courts, “compensation” be established for the sector.
The deputy general of Álava, Ramiro Gonzalez, has admitted that he fully understands the concern of the hoteliers before the adoption of new restrictions, because they are “sectors especially affected”, but has defended that the institutions have the “obligation to adopt measures” to protect the population as a whole. Not adopting them “would be absolute irresponsibility,” he remarked.
Precisely, the Minister of Economy, Pedro Azpiazu, will meet this morning with representatives of the hospitality sector to take stock of all the aid that this year has been distributed to this sector and “to make the assessment for the future.”
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