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In Norway, Anders Tegnell is now better known than Carola, writes the hotel’s founder, Petter Stordalen, in a letter from a reader to a Swedish newspaper.
The hotel’s owner, Petter Stordalen, believes that a “state patch” should be included in all infection control measures affecting the tourism industry. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB scanpix
The hotel’s owner, Petter Stordalen, despairs over the situation in a reader’s letter to Stockholm’s Aftonbladet newspaper on Saturday. The travel, entertainment and nightlife industry may completely collapse during the pandemic.
The situation is now such that state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has become better known among Norwegians than artist Carola Häggkvist, Stordalen explains, and it doesn’t stop there:
“Public health press conferences have more viewers than Idol. Hand alcohol has become our best-selling alcoholic product, and face masks and wreath greetings have become commonplace.”
As the owner of Choice Hotels, Stordalen has significant financial interests in Sweden. But now revenue has almost completely stopped:
“The country’s borders are closed. People die. As a consequence, in practice all international travel activities have ceased. Meetings, conferences and congresses are canceled, restaurants are empty. Money is the end of the industry that makes just nine months it was described as a Swedish staple industry. “
Must stop the bleeding
The reader’s letter is addressed to the political authorities. “All restrictions must be accompanied by a state patch that stops acute bleeding,” Stordalen writes.
For long-term ill effects they are great without plasters. So Sweden runs the risk that “social distancing is the normal state in a society with extremely high mass unemployment among young people and where places for meetings and travel have decreased.”
