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Berlin (dpa / bb) - The closure of the hospitality industry at the beginning of November hit hoteliers and innkeepers hard.
In that month, the Berlin businesses made an average of only a quarter of the usual turnover, Brandenburger made half - restaurants with take-away sales, hotels with business travelers.
The Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office put the sector's sales decline in Berlin at 75.1 percent compared to November 2019. In Brandenburg, the decline was 51.5 percent.
Hotels and pensions were each more affected than the catering trade.
This has an impact on employment: in November, almost a quarter fewer people worked in Berlin's hospitality industry than a year earlier.
In Brandenburg there were 17.5 percent fewer employees.
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Restaurants and pubs are still closed, at least until mid-February.
Tourist overnight stays are prohibited in hotels.
The bans are intended to prevent the coronavirus from spreading further.
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