• In addition to enforcing barrier gestures, ski resorts will have to check health passes in departments where the incidence rate of Covid-19 exceeds 200.

  • In the Alpes-Maritimes, the stations train and organize their staff to be able to carry out “random checks”.

Wearing a mask in the queues and in closed ski lifts, the barrier gestures to (enforce) respect, it was already recorded.

But in the ski resorts of the Alpes-Maritimes, which are preparing to open, we are also preparing to have to control the health passes.

"The rule given to us by the government is that it will be compulsory where the incidence rate exceeds 200. And we are already there," recalls Frédéric Gil, director of Isola 2000, Auron and Saint-Delmas the Selvage.

Random checks

With 232 cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants at the start of the week, the Alpes-Maritimes will therefore be concerned from the first openings, on December 4.

Especially since with the fifth wave, for which the Minister of Health announced new measures on Thursday, the figures are expected to deteriorate further.

"We are waiting for the precise decrees, but we should probably organize random checks," continues the manager of the Nice Côte d'Azur resorts.

A protocol concluded between the State and the organization Domaines skiables de France indeed provides for "checks on people in the sales areas of ski lift operators, in ski lessons, as well as at the start of ski lifts".

“We're all going to comply.

It is too important to be able to open this year after two cut seasons, ”also explains his colleague from La Colmiane, Yannick Garin.

He has planned to again assign “Covid officials” among his staff, without additional hiring.

"Sworn" station staff

For Isola 2000 and Auron, the sixteen ticket control agents will have the TousAntiCovid Verif app installed on their tablets. “They are sworn in. And, at the same time as they will ensure that the barrier gestures are respected, they will carry out unannounced checks. But it will be impossible to verify everyone, warns Frédéric Gil. Some of our lifts have a flow of 3,500 skiers per hour. It was not possible to do this check when purchasing the pass, not knowing the validity period of a pass ”.

Could the announcement of the obligation of the booster dose from the age of 18 to renew it discourage some skiers and therefore complicate the affairs of the resorts?

"For the moment the Christmas holidays are well filled", reassured himself Thursday Frédéric Gil.

And at the time of Olivier Véran's press conference, it was snowing on the Riviera peaks.

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Open from December 4

La Colmiane had already planned a first partial opening this summer on the weekend of December 4 with free passes under 12 and ski lessons offered for all.

“We have at least 15 cm of snow at the bottom of the slopes.

So we'll be there, as well as the weekend after.

We will then open every day from the start of the winter holidays, ”explains Yannick Garin.

At Isola 2000 and Auron, it will also be from December 4 at the latest that the slopes will be open.

On the Valberg side, we are betting more on December 11.

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