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They are not convinced. While the government announced this Thursday an "unprecedented" plan of 18 billion euros to save the tourism sector, and guaranteed that "the French will be able to go on vacation to France in July and August", the merchants of Villefranche -sur-Mer, on the Côte d'Azur, are far from smiling. And for good reason: if this town is usually full of tourists, 50% of whom are foreigners, at the moment cafes, restaurants and hotels are almost all closed.
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"We want above all a reopening date"
"So much the better if people can come, it's perfect because we're in agony. But above all we want a reopening date, it would be good for morale", explains to the microphone of Europe 1 Richard, owner of Les Palmiers restaurant, which has not served a single customer since March 16. Even the bell from Jean-Christophe, who holds his tobacco press close to a beach on which it is always forbidden to set foot. "If the French can travel all over France it is better than nothing, but it will not replace foreign customers," he laments.
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"Try to survive"
Foreign tourists who represent "75% of its turnover," he said. So for him, the announcements of Edouard Philippe do not change much, and he already considers his season as "fucked up". "We just have to wait for March next year and try to survive." "What really matters is to have people who come from Italy, Spain, France or Navarre, whatever you want", nuance for his part Nicolas, owner of the restaurant La Dolce Vita.