A few hours after a new Defense Council, the Secretary of State for Tourism, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, announced that the ski lifts in ski resorts will not reopen on February 1.

The sector is therefore moving "towards a white season". 

The ski lifts of the ski resorts "will not reopen on February 1" and the sector is moving towards "a white season", announced the Secretary of State for Tourism Wednesday, a few hours after a Defense Council devoted to a situation health which is not improving. 

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Indeed "a reopening in mid or late February seems highly improbable", announced Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne to the press, after having gathered during a videoconference the actors of the mountain, who hoped for this reopening "to ensure the survival of the mountain ecosystem "and" limit the social impact "on a sector which represents between 250,000 and 400,000 direct and indirect jobs. 

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