La Clusaz ski resort.

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It is for her an "absolute emergency".

The Savoie Mont Blanc Agency, representing 112 ski resorts in Savoie and Haute-Savoie, "demanded" this Thursday from the government for a date for the opening of the winter sports season.

“Stop procrastination!

», Write Vincent Rolland and Nicolas Rubin, co-presidents of the territorial tourist promotion body, in an open letter to the government.

The latest statements by Minister of Health Olivier Véran on Tuesday "left us once again in total uncertainty, with no visibility for January, de facto impacting potential reservations in February," they point out.

📣Open letter STOP TO TERGIVERSATIONS @ VRolland73 and @nicolasrubin, co-presidents of the Agence Savoie Mont Blanc representing 112 resorts in #Savoie and #HauteSavoie, demand from the government a date for the opening of the season


‼ ️ press release https: // t .co / a0pnQyr8QE pic.twitter.com/z7CKGLw1x1

- Savoie Mont Blanc (@SavoieMontBlanc) December 31, 2020

"Sacrificed for the Christmas holidays, we refuse to be so for those of February"

"This is no longer tenable for the 112 resorts of Savoie and Haute-Savoie which represent two thirds of French skiing and all socio-professionals and employees as well as the entire economic chain which depends on it", add the co-presidents .

"Sacrificed for the Christmas holidays, we refuse to be sacrificed for those of February", they warn, adding "it is in the face of a proven lack of equity and an absence of logic that the mountain loses confidence in the government" .

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The date of January 7 had been brought forward for the reopening of the ski lifts at the end of a videoconference on December 11 between the government and elected officials and mountain stakeholders.

But she could walk away in the face of increased circulation of the virus.

The resorts have developed protocols adapted to the health situation and they "have lost up to 85% of their attendance and are with hotels, cafes and restaurants the main sacrifices of the health crisis", estimate these mountain actors. .

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