He is “fundamentally optimistic” – cable carers are “determined” to unlock as soon as authorities and politics allow it.
The chairman of the Association of Austrian Cableways in the Chamber of Commerce, Abg. Franz Hörl, is “fundamentally optimistic” about the start of the season in December. He did not give up hope of a Christmas season, Hörl was combative in the APA conversation on Monday. The ski areas had “made their contribution”, they wanted “no money from the state, but rather to provide the usual high performance as soon as possible”.
Last week, members of the two western federal states of Tyrol and Vorarlberg in particular spoke out in favor of opening the ski areas in mid-January after a meeting in Vienna, according to “Salzburger Nachrichten”. The cable car boss is skeptical of these considerations. The hotel industry is based, criticized Hörl, on “the false hope that the 80 percent revenue replacement can continue to be guaranteed”. “We don't want any money from the state,” he made it unmistakably clear.
Walter Veit, Vice President and Regional Chairman of the Austrian Hotel Association in Salzburg, worried last week that the number of people infected with corona could rise again and that one risked another lockdown. “The health of the guests and employees comes first, of course,” admitted Hörl, and it was “not foreseeable” how the corona case numbers will develop.
In any case, the cable car industry has “the firm will to unlock”. “We have made our contribution, now it is up to the authorities and politicians to make a decision,” said the cable car boss and Zillertal hotelier.
