The first week of the All Saints holidays promises to be “grim” for the French hotel industry, which places “high hopes” in the following week, counting on an improvement in the situation at service stations, said the main hotel union. the employers of the hotel and restaurant industry (Umih).
The decrease in reservations “does not go from 15 to 20% when a week ago it was 30 to 40%” with “chain cancellations” at the peak of scarcity in the stations, says Laurent Duc, who places “high hopes” in what next week with the bridge November 1.
A sector in difficulties since the pandemic
The hospitality industry, which “has just had two terrible years” due to the health crisis, which “suffers from teleworking” and faces “frantic competition from furnished tourist accommodation”, suffers “with all its might” the consequences of the movement social in the refineries, added in RMC.
The CGT, which organized an interprofessional mobilization throughout France on Tuesday, announced two new dates for strikes and demonstrations, on October 27 and November 10, in order not to release pressure despite the beginning of a way out of the crisis in nuclear power plants and refineries. .
Source: BFM TV
