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Wiesbaden (dpa) - The hospitality industry in Germany continues to suffer severely from the consequences of the corona lockdown.
In the period between March 2020 and January of this year, business fell price-adjusted by 47.1 percent, as the Federal Statistical Office reported on the basis of preliminary figures.
In hotels and other accommodation providers, the loss in turnover was particularly high at 54.8 percent.
Even in the summer months without a sharp lockdown, sales did not even come close to the values from previous years without corona.
In the economic misery, many jobs have already been lost despite the use of short-time work, as the office further reported.
The number of people employed in the industry fell by 19.2 percent during the period of the pandemic.
Every fifth job in the mostly small companies has already been lost.
Even before that, they were not paid well: In 2018, two out of three employees in the hospitality industry received a low wage, i.e. less than two thirds of the median earnings in Germany.
In April 2018, the limit was 11.05 euros gross per hour.
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