Salzburg’s hoteliers have a reasonably positive Christmas balance. Due to Omikron, outstanding payments and the like, the January outlook is bleak.
Late, but for Salzburg’s hoteliers, the start of winter was fired on December 17th. The balance after the first block is passable. On average, the hostels were around 80 percent full. Due to a shortage of employees, some companies could not have cope with more guests at all. Seen in this way, some accommodations were even close to the maximum, but the outlook for the next few weeks is bleak. Walter Veit, the designated new President of the Austrian Hoteliers, speaks plain language. “Now it’s about bare survival.” And: “We’re not heading for a January hole, but a huge January hole,” explains the 63-year-old boss of the Hotel Enzian (Obertauern) want to see money for Christmas and New Year’s Eve goods that were barely needed. Repayments for bridging loans from 2020 are pending. The pandemic already ensured that company events for January were completely canceled! ”Envious glances at South Tyrol and Switzerland. Omikron is exacerbating the already tense situation again. Albert Moser from Eggerwirt in St. Michael im Lungau, like the entire industry, looks somewhat envious of South Tyrol, Sweden and Switzerland: “There the ski areas are and were partly open all the time.” understandably scared, migrate there! ”And probably won’t come back. Moser thoughtfully: “The industry is facing huge changes!”
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