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When asked if the winter season could be saved, Schellhorn responded to the APA saying that “this question is woefully justified.” “There has been a negative psychological spiral, which is dramatic,” he says of the mood in domestic tourism, for which the winter season is the most important time of the year.
Schellhorn also blames the minister for this: Köstinger stumbled “from negligence in the summer to the next excessive demand, he just didn’t have our core markets in mind. The era of diletting must come to an end.”
Travel warnings D worry you and make you angry. Affected because I know and feel the effects. Angry because they are self-inflicted. The government was inactive in the summer # Köstinger He was only interested in his own, not in the travel warnings that came to us.
– Sepp Schellhorn (@pepssch) October 22, 2020
Schellhorn calls for a “protective umbrella solution for tourism businesses”
“Businesses that rely mainly on winter are facing a huge liquidity problem. Bookings, especially since the travel advisories, have been practically nil. This is why there are also cancellations and therefore no advance payments.” “Schellhorn claims once again. Although there are now signs in the direction of implementation, as recently shown by the Tourism Committee,” implementation has been waited too long, “criticizes the NEOS politician.
Criticism of Köstinger
In this context, Schellhorn harshly criticizes Tourism Minister Köstinger. He accuses her of having slept all summer “while the world falls on us.” No effort has been made to avoid travel advisories. “As Health Minister (Rudolf, note) Anschober, she spoke of a second wave. But what has been done about it in terms of tourism?” Schellhorn said. “In view of the fact that the German market provides about half of the overnight stays, one should have agreed with the German RKI.”
Defense of the head of the Red Cross Foitik
At the same time, Schellhorn defends the head of the Red Cross, Gerry Foitik: For the politician “it is not a scandal that Foitik wants to save winter tourism with a modified test strategy and protect risk groups faster and better, but that the government has not implemented this strategy for a long time. ” Because both Germany and Switzerland would be tested as suggested by Foitik and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
In Austria, however, there is “an artificially strict and also ineffective test of asymptomatic contacts”. This boosts “the number of cases in the quantity and through the following travel warnings thousands of bankrupt tourist companies.”
Businesses are up in the air when it comes to fixed cost subsidies
The government is also playing “Hü-Hott” with companies when it comes to fixed-cost subsidies, according to Schellhorn. “With the only cash aid instrument, the fixed-cost subsidy, companies are completely up in the air. Even seven months after closing, the aid mosaic does not come. The fixed-cost subsidy is occupational therapy for tax advisers “. Finance Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) has “organized this aid in an amateurish way”.
Schellhorn itself typically has around 100 employees for the winter season in late October. He currently only plans to play the season with 50 employees.
(Those: APA)
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