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The president of the Lithuanian Rural Tourism Association, Agnė Vaitkuvienė, says she has noticed that reservations for the banquet halls for the New Year this year were made earlier than usual and started in October. However, the government will have to cancel the changes if the government tightens the quarantine.
“The quarantine has been extended once, then again, now it is obvious that the contracts we have signed and the orders will be canceled, the holidays simply will not take place,” A. Vaitkuvienė told BNS.
According to her, according to the current requirements, the houses can be rented by a family, so an important part of them chooses to fulfill the holidays in the houses.
We hope to know if we will be able to receive guests during the festive period. Both we and the guests are waiting for clarifications.
“Accommodation services, which we call quiet vacations, when the family rents a country house by the lake or on a farm, we have many of those reserves,” said the president of the association.
A.Vaitkuvienė assured that the owners of the farms will ensure that there is not more than one family on them.
“It is not the case that whoever wants to come to the territory of the farmhouse and do what they want. There are hosts, contracts are signed, people sign that they will comply with the quarantine requirements and the guests register, the host knows whether the family has arrived or not, ”he said.
Ingrida Valaitienė, director of the Palanga Hotel and Restaurant Association, says that recently the hotel occupancy in the resort has reached 30 to 50 percent. According to her, after hearing statements in public space about the intentions to tighten the quarantine, the reservations were stopped, some of them, canceled.
Photo by Vidmantas Balkūnas / 15min / Ingrida Valaitienė
“Everything would have gone well, but a few days ago, after learning about the possibility of tightening the quarantine and restricting movement between cities, the number of orders suddenly stopped and we received a considerable number of cancellations,” I. Valaienienė told BNS .
“We are waiting for news on whether we will be able to receive guests during the festive period. Both we and the guests are awaiting clarifications,” he added.
I.Valaitienė said that fewer hotels were booked this year than last year. However, he did not comment on whether the number of bookings has increased in the last month.
“And why should we compare it to November? Naturally, people have vacations, which are vacations, family celebrations, wanting to see something, to taste something delicious, to say hello, to wish. We can’t really compare it to November, “he said.
I.Valaitienė emphasized that the situation of the hotels in the resort is bad: “Some hotels are closed, some work with 5-10%. employment during the week, the situation is bad during the second wave, the complex felt it very strongly “.
The outgoing government of Saulius Skvernelis has tightened quarantine conditions since the middle of the week, but the future government, as well as President Gitanas Nausėda, called the decisions insufficient.
New Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys said on Friday that stricter restrictions will be introduced this week.
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