A sample of what awaits the French for the end-of-year celebrations? The SNCF controllers’ strike this weekend is seriously disrupting rail traffic as the railway company has been forced to cancel 60% of its TGV and Intercités trains.
For tourism players, this social movement that occurs during one of the most lucrative weekends of the year is difficult to digest: “Every time, we are hostages to the season in which we have to do our number of the year,” it was said. angers Jean Dreyfus. , winemaker with a stand at the Strasbourg Christmas market.
Not far from there, in a hotel in the center of the Alsatian capital, 10% of weekend reservations have been cancelled. And the situation could happen again in the coming weeks as two new strike notices have been issued for the holiday season:
“Without fatality” for Clément Beaune
In October, the tourism sector had already suffered from the strikes at the refineries, the fuel shortages that followed had forced the French to give up their holidays. This Saturday, the delegate minister for Transport, Clément Beaune, however, assured that there were “no fatalities” for the end-of-year celebrations.
Source: BFM TV
