Barrage of cancellations of restaurant reservations for New Year's Eve and New Year due to the rise in infections

The forecast of reservations for New Year’s Eve in the Balearic hospitality industry presents a negative trend, since “there are many, an outrage”, the cancellations that the island restaurants are registering for the last night of the year “because people are afraid of get out”.

This is how the president of the Restoration branch of the Confederation of Business Associations of the Balearic Islands (CAEB Restauración), Alfonso Robledo, has stated in statements to Europa Press, who recalled that, only with company dinners prior to the festivities, the rate cancellations was 80 percent.

In this sense, he added that the forecast for New Year’s Eve follows the same path, since currently cancellations range between 50 and 60 percent. However, he recalled that, “although it looks scary, last minute reservations are also being made.”

In the same vein, Eugenia Cusí has followed the president of the Mallorca Association of Restaurants, Bars and Cafeterias (RBC), who pointed out that, “although there are last minute reservations, it also happens that there are reservations made and then they do not come. “. On this, he regretted that the extension of the COVID certificate – which has already received the endorsement of Justice – has caused cancellations not only for New Year’s Eve, but also for the San Sebastián festivities, “before it even came into force.” “It is a volatile and unstable time, the messages that are transmitted through the imposed measures are not related or coherent with the safety of the sector, in the last 21 months no study has appeared that maintains that the restoration is a source of dispersion COVID “, added Cusí.

Likewise, he has criticized that, although the COVID certificate is not considered as a restriction, its extension “causes less influx in the premises” and that, “although it may not be formally, the practical effect is exactly the same.”