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Bookings for fall courses, conferences and hotel rooms are at an all-time low. Several hotel chains plan to close again.
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– Unfortunately, we have to consider closing the hotels again. Because now it looks really bleak, Thon Hotels Senior Manager Morten Thorvaldsen tells Dagens Næringsliv.
– Companies and organizations do not dare to bring their people together. They are afraid of heart disease. It looks really grim, he says. This is especially true in Oslo.
Hotel chain Scandic announced Wednesday that September occupancy is expected to average 30 to 35 percent. It is about halving what is normal.
The hotel chain warns that further reduction in personnel costs will be implemented in Norway and Denmark.
Figures from the Benchmarking Alliance company, which collects data from most hotels, show that there may be a halving of space in Bergen in the last four months of the year. The Oslo figures are even worse.
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It looks dark in the fall
When E24 picked up the pace of the hotel market in late August, it was clear that lodging establishments were noticing that businesses were tightening up their travel activities.
– To be honest, fall doesn’t seem particularly uplifting. There are more cancellations every day now. The fear of corona infection is great, and several companies have introduced travel restrictions internally, hotel director Merete Emanuelsen at Quality Hotel Leangkollen in Asker on Viken told E24.
At the Clarion Hotel Energy in Stavanger, there was no jubilation either.
– I never think we have been so insecure about a season as we are now. How low can it go? That is the question now. We have booked something, but we don’t know if it will be implemented, said hotel manager Gjermund Dahl.
Both hotels are affiliated with Nordic Choice Hotels and have a large part of their operations linked to events, courses and conferences.
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They are not good forecasts
Innovation Norway has produced the report “State of the Tourism Industry” which was published on 10th August. There they point out that fall is usually the peak season for courses, meetings and conferences.
There they write that the time it will take for the lodging industry to recover after the pandemic will largely depend on the meeting and conference market in the fall and winter.
– In our opinion, the forecasts for the rest of the year are not very good, especially in the market for courses and conferences, which normally has a very busy fall season, says the report.
