2023-12-24 18:11:41
By Julien Da Sois
Published 5 hours ago, Updated 5 hours ago
In total, 492 rooms were “released”, specified Paris 2024. Tiberius Gracchus – stock.adobe.com
It was through an email from Paris 2024 that several hoteliers in Châteauroux, which will host the shooting events next summer, learned of the cancellation of thousands of nights, without any possible compensation.
(New) bad publicity for the 2024 Olympic Games. The organizing committee for the Olympic Games recently canceled thousands of overnight hotel reservations in Châteauroux, the prefecture of Indre, which will host the Olympic Games next summer. sportive shoot. Enough to provoke the anger of the half-dozen establishments concerned.
It was through an email from Paris 2024 that their managers learned the news, revealed France Bleu Berry this week. “The Olympic committee simply told me that the needs were less than expected”, told RMC one of them, Régis Tellier, from the Élysée hotel. HAS France 3 Centre-Val de Loire, the same hotelier affirms that, of the 976 nights reserved by the committee, only 81 remain, or less than 10%. Depending on the hotels, between 50 and 80% of nights were canceled, according to the regional daily. The New Republic . In total, 492 rooms were “released», specified Paris 2024.
«It’s a huge disappointment. We turned away people for the summer. We have no explanation. I feel the anger rising», castigated Véronique Gaulon, president of the departmental branch of Umih, the main employers’ union in the hotel and catering industry. Several establishments even say they have carried out thousands of euros of work to meet the requirements of the organizing committee. Hence their discontent and their feeling of incomprehension. Especially since they will not be compensated, because the agreement signed with the organizing committee provided for adjustments free of charge until mid-December.
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A “problematic” method
Tony Estanguet, the boss of Paris 2024, explained the committee’s approach during a press conference organized on Wednesday. “Today, with more precise knowledge of this information, we have effectively vacated the rooms, which we, the organizing committee, no longer need. This will also allow new opportunities for spectators, athletes’ families, even service providers who work on the organization and who are looking for accommodation solutions.», Specified the former three-time Olympic canoe slalom champion, quoted by The Team .
In the email received by hoteliers on December 14, the Olympic organizing committee also estimates that the rooms put back on the market “can be reserved between now and the start of the competitions., which will start in seven months, on July 27. A point on which most managers agree. The same goes for local elected officials, who do not say “not very worried“. It is rather the method, considered clumsy, which irritates the hoteliers, joined by the mayor of Châteauroux, Gil Avérous. “It’s the way it was done that’s the problem. Why didn’t they call the hoteliers directly one by one? criticizes the city councilor, questioned by The New Republic. And then, what surprises is the extent of the withdrawal. I understand the hoteliers who would have preferred a phone call rather than an email.”
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