- Mipim and CanneSeries were postponed and MipTV was canceled due to the coronavirus crisis.
- Tourism professionals are worried.
- The mayor of Cannes appeals to the government.
Next week's Mipim and its 25,000 accredited members canceled, the seasonal workers who were to arrive in the hotels were asked to wait. Since the real estate congress, the most important meeting for Cannes business tourism, has been rescheduled in June due to coronavirus, the launch of the high season too ... has been postponed on the Croisette.
Especially since another bad news arrived Wednesday: MipTV and the 10,000 accredited that it was to drain from March 30 to April 2 will also be absent subscribers. Without carryover. A definite shortfall for the local economy.
“Everything is called into question. We will have to adapt, comments the president of the union of hoteliers Christine Welter. We will have to take stock at the end of the year to see other events catch up. "
"We are going to have to use part-time"
In the meantime, many professions are affected. At Ernest traiteur, the order book has dramatically emptied in recent days. “The Mipim which is no longer done in March, it is 350,000 euros in turnover less for us. And we are not sure of anything for the new dates in June, explains Annick Le Roch, the director of this house founded in 1936. With the MipTV canceled in addition, we are really in the dark. We are going to have to use part-time. We really fear for the sustainability of our businesses. "
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Besides, this other hotelier "prays that the Cannes Festival will not experience the same fate". "It would be really dramatic," testifies the professional anonymously.
The mayor explains that he “requested immediate measures”
Without thinking about this end, there is already an emergency for the mayor (LR) of the city. On Thursday, David Lisnard decided to appeal to the government and the other competent authorities in the face of "a real social and economic disaster for the tourism sector". The city councilor explains that he “requested immediate measures” to “defend the many jobs at stake and support local businesses”.
He notably called for the creation of an emergency fund, the reduction of tax and social charges and the allocation of exceptional direct aid "intended to more fairly compensate for commercial damage".
In the city of festivals, the shows bring life to hotels and restaurants of course, but also transporters, production, event and decoration agencies, as well as security guards who "are going to be heavily damaged" , alert the mayor. Sectors where cash flow is fragile at the end of the winter and which generates “150,000 direct and indirect jobs” on the Côte d'Azur according to him.
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