The Ministry of Health has issued an order declaring the mandatory closure of hotels, tourist establishments, campsites, caravan parks and short-stay accommodation before the next day 26 due to the coronavirus crisis.

The Royal Decree declaring the state of alarm includes the possibility of closing or limiting commercial activity, cultural facilities, establishments and activities

recreational, hotel and restaurant activities, and others. In it, the Minister of Health is empowered to "modify, expand or restrict the measures, places, establishments and activities listed in the previous sections, for justified reasons of public health."

At the end of 2019 there were 12,559 open hotel establishments in Spain, with 550,476 rooms and 1,137 million beds, attended by 162,420 employees.

Some hotel chains, such as Room Mate, which had closed some of their establishments due to the lack of demand in recent weeks, had made the same available to the Government in order to admit patients with coronavirus.

The Health order has been published tonight in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and specifies that the closure "will take place at the time the establishment has no customers and, in any case, within a maximum period of seven calendar days from the entry into force of this standard. "

According to the decree, "tourist establishments that host clients who, at the time of declaration of the state of alarm, are stable and seasonal, provided they do not have to share common services, are allowed to open to the public."

The Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodations (CEHAT) had encouraged the country's establishments to organize donations of perishable food and other products for sanitary use (masks, gloves and hydro-alcoholic gels) once the orderly closure of the tourist facilities has taken place. .

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