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About 100,000 jobs in the HoReCa field, that is, about half of the total, will be lost before the end of the year in the context of the restrictions imposed by the authorities in this field, said on Monday two representatives of employers in HoReCa – Dragos Anastasiu, spokesperson for the Alliance for Tourism (ApT), and Călin Ile, president of the Federation of the Romanian Hotel Industry (FIHR), according to Agerpres.
At a press conference on Monday about the serious situation in the HoReCa sector, the spokesman for the Alianza para el Turismo, the organization that groups together HoReCa businessmen, estimated that more than half of the places in the countryside have already been lost. existing work prior to the imposition of restrictions.
We also asked ourselves this question (of the number of jobs lost in HoReCa since the beginning of the restrictions, no.), We asked the Government this week a week ago and we did not receive it. That is why I refrain from giving you figures. What I can say, however, is that our numbers are considerable, and the season is over, and there were many seasonal hotels that went on for the winter and no longer do. Almost 200,000 people that we employ directly and others employed in related activities, events and more, I believe that in the context of the current measures and current aid, as the industry has fallen by 65%, at least that way it will decrease and the number of employees ” Dragos Anastasiu said.
“Unfortunately we are in a country where we do not trust numbers that arrive quickly, arrive late”
When asked later if this estimate indicates more than 100,000 jobs lost, Dragoş Anastasiu confirmed the figure.
“It seems so. If an industry declines in a year, let’s say 65%, in hotels even more, in restaurants a little less, then why should people pay? I don’t know what. The measures that came – technical unemployment, support of 41.5%, they helped maintain employment, but now? When did the world lose hope? When until April next year is the total loss of hope? It’s six months! What are you doing? “We fear we will see … we will have seen an acceleration in unemployment in the last two weeks. They are logical deductions. Unfortunately we are in a country where we do not rely on figures that arrive quickly, arrive late, “said spokesman for the Alliance for Tourism.
He noted that HoReCa employers do not centralize the number of job losses themselves, but the government should release official figures soon.
“We do not have (within the employers’ organizations in HoReCa figures on the number of jobs lost in the field due to restrictions, no). Here is a problem of the Competition Council, which is very attentive to what data we exchange among ourselves, and then we are a little reluctant to ask what everyone is doing, but we are waiting for the official data from the Government, which should arrive very soon, ”added Dragoş Anastasiu.
In turn, FIHR President Călin Ile confirmed that HoReCA employers expect to lose more than 100,000 employees this year as a result of restrictions imposed in the context of the pandemic.
“We do not have exact figures, unfortunately we made a request to the Ministry of Labor but they have not responded to us yet. I am based on a questionnaire that I made among the members and that said that by the end of the year 40% of the employees Be fired if the State does not come with substantial state aid, which did not happen. If we are talking about 40% of the 200,000 direct employees in the industry, we are already talking about 80,000 people. So these would be estimates based on a questionnaire conducted by Cushman & Wakefield, in Somewhere in August, this study was in August, since then the data has escalated, so I also estimate that there will be around 100,000 unemployed in our direct industry as a result of the pandemic. “We will have this concrete information by the end of the month. Now we are going to make estimates where we are in unison somewhere in 100,000 jobs lost, “said Călin Ile.
“80% of the hotels do not intend to remain open in the next 6 months”
At the press conference, the spokesman of the Alliance for Tourism, Dragoş Anastasiu, specified that the losses registered in the HoReCa field this year amount to 3,000 million euros.
“Directly and indirectly, tourism means 5.7% of GDP. We appreciate our industry at the moment in 2019 somewhere in the 5 billion euro mark and we start from the premise that we will finish below 50% this year. speaking of a loss of approximately 3 billion euros from this industry this year, which is destructive, ”mentioned Dragoş Anastasiu.
Likewise, FIHR President Călin Ile added that 80% of hotels do not intend to remain open in the next 6 months.
“This is also confirmed by the INS report at the end of September. The decrease in hotels will be between 65 and 70% compared to last year and slightly lower in restaurants or pension areas. Therefore, the losses are around 3 billion at the level of in the hotel industry and around a billion in the hotel industry alone I want to emphasize with some figures the dramatic moment we are in: if in March 88% of the hotels were closed, 73% closed in April, why do we think that in the next 6 months we go, will we have a different situation? It is obvious that around 70-80% of hotels have no reason to keep hotels open in the next period We have 6 dramatic months ahead of us, with the estimate that starting in May, due to the heat, due to immunization and perhaps a vaccine to overcome them, but these six months cannot be passed by our industry without state support. consist Our resources are exhausted, all operators have sent their people into unemployment, because they no longer have something to hold on to this occupancy rates: you will see a dramatic increase in the number of unemployed coming from our industry and you will see hotels closed and soon for sale, insolvencies or bankruptcies in our industry. It is not a joke, and without a collaboration with the authorities we practically crossed the advances that we have achieved in the last 10 years in the industry ”, said the president of the FIHR.
Publisher: Liviu Cojan
