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The restaurant sector received 80 percent in November and 50 percent in December. There is also part-time work. Wasn’t there too much funding here compared to other industries?
Certainly there were companies that had good occupancy rates in the summer. But there were also many businesses, such as boat tourism on the Danube or urban tourism, which also came to a standstill in the summer months. This is not an excess of financing, but a kind of compensation for the sales of the previous months. And many winter tourism regions that closed in November 2019 get nothing at all.
The “Kaufhaus Österreich” should be an online boost for national trade. The implementation turned out to be an abdominal patch that cost 700,000 euros. Do you wear that belly mark on your cap? What went wrong there?
I myself should have taken a closer look at the Ministry of Economy project. You could have done more of that. As an expert in digitization, it bothers me a lot. Well intentioned unfortunately does not always mean well done.
The ski lifts are already open. Photos of the crowds in front of the ski lifts made it to the international media. Was the opening really a good decision?
Yes, first of all, skiing is an outdoor sport. And second, it’s about our reputation as a tourist destination in the future. Our ski lift operators have done their safety duties in an exemplary manner. I think things have been going very well and safely so far, apart from some problems with parking management in smaller ski areas close to cities. We fight together for tens of thousands of jobs and for the existence of more than one hundred thousand families in Austria. For some, recreational sport means the livelihood of many others.
