In view of the different opening steps in gastronomy and tourism businesses, innkeepers and hoteliers around Lake Constance are calling for the rules to be harmonized. In the four-country region, the “currently existing and divergent regulations are always particularly challenging,” said the managing director of the International Bodensee Tourismus GmbH, Jürgen Amman, in Constance. The rules should definitely be harmonized. Corresponding demands also came from the Allgäu.
Criticize tourism and gastronomy: “This leads to enormous competitive disadvantages”
Above all, the link to a seven-day incidence of less than 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants triggers criticism on the German side. While tourism and gastronomy will soon open up in large parts of the Allgäu and the Lake Constance district in Baden-Württemberg, day trips to Austria and Switzerland are possible again. With a negative corona test, holiday returnees from the two countries can also exempt themselves from the quarantine obligation upon entry.
It is incomprehensible that the current resolutions accept concept-based openings outside of Germany, but the new start in this country is tied to incidence, said the chairwoman of the Allgäu GmbH supervisory board, Maria Rita Zinnecker, on Friday. “This leads to enormous competitive disadvantages.” Guests could vacation in neighboring countries, but not in Bavaria.
Austria plans to open tourism businesses on May 19th. Hotels, mountain railways and outdoor restaurants are already open in Switzerland. “The guest goes where he is allowed to go,” said the chairman of the German Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga) in the Lake Constance district, Horst Müller. “If things go stupid, there is total chaos. Then you have exactly what you didn’t want: many people in the same place. ”Even within Baden-Württemberg, due to different incidences,“ district hopping ”is to be feared.
Different regulations lead to chaos
Although the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Social Affairs listened to the concerns of the hospitality industry in the opening strategy decided on Thursday, said Müller. “But of course the different rules lead to a huge mess. The guests actually need to be certain that their vacation will take place. “
The Allgäu GmbH criticized that their concepts for a reliable opening of gastronomy and tourism had so far received no response from the Bavarian ministries. “It is hard to see why the incidence value is still the measure of all things when deciding on possible opening steps in tourism”, Zinnecker wrote to Prime Minister Markus Söder on Friday: “Our neighboring countries show us very impressively and seriously how a concept-based one Opening strategy works successfully. “