If the professionals foresee a “gloomy” first week, with a decline of 15 to 20% in reservations, they place “great hopes” on the second week of vacation, with the November 1 bridge.
Despite the improvement in the situation at service stations, the hotel industry is planning a first week of the All Saints’ holidays “morose“, reported this Saturday morning on Europe 1 Laurent Duc, president of the French Umih Hôtellerie.
And “reservations are gradually resuming“as strikes at refineries and fuel depots end, they remain in decline”from 15 to 20%” – versus “30 to 40% a week ago“, detailed the boss of the hotel branch of the main employers’ union for the hotel and catering industry. “People have made their arrangements. (…) They often changed their program», observes Laurent Duc, who reports «chain cancellationsat the start of last week, at the peak of shortages at gas stations.
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On the other hand, professionals in the hotel industry place “high hopes” in the second week of vacation, indicates Laurent Duc, all the more with the bridge of November 1, “which may allow people to have a fairly normal week».
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The preferred destinations are thoseProximity“, underlined the president of the Umih Hôtellerie française, this time on RMC. “Anything a full round trip, in distance, works much better than going down to the Cote d’Azur or the Aquitaine region“, he said. For example, the Channel is at 71% of reservations against 30% on the Côte d’Azur, according to figures from the firm MKG Consulting for Umih. In these regions deserted by holidaymakers, some establishments have even decided to close for the All Saints holidays.due to lack of reservations“, reports Laurent Duc.
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After the confederal president of Umih, Roland Héguy, ranted earlier this week against the strike in the refineries and depots of TotalEnergies, his colleague Laurent Duc also deplored this social movement. The hotel industry suffersfull force” the results, “when we have not yet recovered from the Covid“, he regretted. “Blocking the country, it is not justified“, he launched to the address of the strikers. Two TotalEnergies sites, in Normandy and in the Rhône, were still on strike on Friday. The CGT has also announced two new dates for strikes and demonstrations, October 27 and November 10.