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Rostock / Berlin (dpa / mv) - The President of the Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga), Guido Zöllick, has requested a specific date from the state government when the catering in MV can reopen.
"It is a disaster what we are doing here," said Zöllick on Monday on NDR Info with a view to the neighboring state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Outside catering has been allowed to reopen there for a month and hotels from next Monday.
The Schwerin cabinet wants to deal with the issue on Tuesday, Zöllick then expects "a very specific date when it starts again."
The Rostock & Warnemünde tourist office demanded that it be opened from Whitsun.
According to the Dehoga President, who is also the boss of the Hotel Neptun in Warnemünde, 30 percent of the catering establishments in MV are threatened with bankruptcy, 60 percent have acute existential problems.
The desperation of restaurateurs is not sufficiently recognized by politicians.
Together with the NGG (food-pleasure-restaurants) union, Zöllick also called for employees in the catering industry to be brought forward to vaccination priority group 3.
The CDU top candidate and district administrator of Vorpommern-Greifswald, Michael Sack, renewed his criticism of the state government's tourism policy on Monday.
For weeks, MV has been the only tourist country to have had the luxury of doing nothing and "still scourging day visitors," said Sack.
This week MV has the last chance to re-register as a tourist country.
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