Hoteliers and nightlife businessmen fear a new wave of capacity restrictions or limitations, including closures, at the Extraordinary Conference of Presidents held today and in which measures will be addressed to address the increase in infections and the advance of omicron.

The nightlife employers do not rule out studying judicial measures, as in fact Catalan businessmen have done, before the closure of the premises in this community.

"The appeal before the courts has worked and we are not going to renounce it," says Vicente Pizcueta, spokesman for the National Federation of Leisure and Entertainment Entrepreneurs (Spain by Night).

These businessmen, who have been closed for much of the pandemic and have been the ones who

have borne the brunt of the restrictions

, fear becoming the target again, just when they have only been open for a few months.

Pizcueta is confident, however, that drastic measures will not be taken today, especially "two days before Christmas and with full refrigerators", when they have already sold more than a million tickets for New Year's Eve, according to their data.

The nightlife and catering sectors of Catalonia

already announced yesterday that they are studying

joint

legal action

in the face of the restrictions announced this Monday by the Government to stop the increase in infections.

Catalonia, for example, has already announced the closure of nightlife, the intention to limit capacity and even to resume the curfew.

Representatives of associations such as Gremi de Discoteques de Barcelona i province, Assac, Gremi de Restauració de Barcelona and Pimec (the main companies in the sector) appeared at a press conference to announce that they plan to challenge all of the announced restrictions, although they may not be presented. until Monday, December 27.

They hope that the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC)

"will overturn some of the restrictions,"

said the general secretary of the Gremi de Discoteques de Barcelona i province, Ramon Mas.

cancellations

The hoteliers have also shown their concern about the possibility that the communities adopt

new restrictions that "will generate a rebound effect

," lamented yesterday the president of the Hospitality Industry of Spain, José Luis Yzuel, who expressed his concern on Tuesday.

"What surprises me is that there is talk of new restrictions, but no one tells how it is going to be compensated" with aid that has to arrive "at the same time" because it does "tremendous economic damage."

"The ineffectiveness of the restrictions has been demonstrated since consumers are not going to give up staying," said José Luis Yzuel during the presentation of the Hospitality Yearbook.

In fact, the sector expected to close the year better, but the contagions of recent weeks have ruined its forecasts.

There are 75% cancellations

in reservations for dinners and meals and the hospitality establishments will close the year with a turnover between 25 and 30% less than in 2019, the last comparable year before the covid pandemic.

The sector aims to achieve full recovery in 2023.

Hoteliers also

fear the "negative effects of the wave caused by omicron,

which is making countries take decisions to close borders again, which goes against mobility and is directly proportional to the lower arrival of tourists" , points out Javier Marichal, president of Cehat, the Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodation.

As he regrets, "it is once again a great stick for the tourism and hotel sectors," which had begun to see signs of recovery, especially since vaccination rates increased this summer.

"The covid does not understand borders without measures. We demand that the government establish clear protocols so that mobility can be given subject to clear and fixed conditions, and not always be dependent on what one or the other does"

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