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Berlin (dpa / bb) - The Berlin hotel industry is preparing for a difficult year in 2021.
«The outlook for January, February and March is extremely bleak.
We assume that there is little going on, ”said Thomas Lengfelder, managing director of the Hotel and Restaurant Association Berlin (Dehoga) of the German Press Agency.
"It's not the time for city tourism, and the trade fairs from Green Week to ITB have all been canceled."
It is positive that the vaccinations against the coronavirus have started. In terms of city tourism, Lengfelder believes a development for the better is possible from April. “I don't see the trade fair and event business positively for a long time,” said the Dehoga managing director. "If we achieve an overall room occupancy of 40 percent in 2021, that would be fantastic," said Lengfelder - but well below the 83.8 percent of 2019. In the year before the corona pandemic, the number of overnight stays reached 34.1 million Record value.