While you often had to queue for a long time for the Christmas market on Neuer Platz in Klagenfurt due to the strict Corona controls, the New Year’s Eve market on Neuer Platz is now freely accessible. The barriers are gradually being dismantled.
As the catering industry is now offering its food and drinks “to go”, free access to the market is now possible. “I am really happy about this opportunity, because the waiting times at the entrance were sometimes unreasonable for visitors to the Christmas market,” emphasizes Mayor and Market Officer Christian Scheider. “In addition, just standing in line in a row definitely did not reduce the risk of infection – but a regulation is a regulation, even if it is incomprehensible to many.” If you want to browse arts and crafts, you can do so under the current Covid safety regulations – daily in the core time from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (frame time is until 10 p.m.). The FFP2 mask requirement remains and the 2G certificates are checked on a random basis. The opening of the New Year’s Eve market and unrestricted access have become possible thanks to the change in the catering area. According to the ordinance, a bar with a stop at a catering hut would have meant a restriction on access of 25 people to the entire area – that would have been impracticable, “says Scheider. The opening is also a huge relief for the stallholders, because unhindered strolling through the market simply makes more Joy. And the 50 percent reduction in the stand fee made possible by Scheider is also of great help to the Fieranten under the currently difficult framework conditions.
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