Corona: where tourists have to leave

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No more vacation from Monday in Schleswig-Holstein: Tourists have to pack their things because of the partial lockdown. For islands and Halligen there is a longer period in order to equalize the departure traffic. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania it will also be very quiet in a few days. And in Bavaria, too, tourists have to break off their vacation prematurely.

On Saturday, the southern Free State was the third state to announce the bad news for its vacationers, who now have to leave Bavaria by the morning of November 2nd at the latest. Tourist overnight stays are no longer permitted from that day, said a spokesman for the Bavarian Ministry of Health. "Overnight guests are allowed to leave during the morning of November 2nd as a gesture of goodwill, although the regulation actually applies from midnight."

Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania had previously announced similar regulations. From Monday there will be a partial lockdown nationwide until the end of November. The federal and state governments agreed on Wednesday that "overnight stays in Germany will only be made available for necessary and expressly non-tourist purposes". Among other things, this is intended to get the massively increasing corona infection numbers under control.

What applies to vacationers in Schleswig-Holstein?

Because of the partial lockdown to contain the coronavirus, tourists from Schleswig-Holstein must also leave on Monday, November 2nd at the latest - with the exception of holidaymakers on the North Sea islands and Halligen. The state government announced in Kiel on Friday that there is a three-day longer period until November 5th (Thursday) because of the capacities in the ferry traffic and in the car trains. This is intended to straighten out the departure traffic.

Accommodation for professional reasons, socio-ethical reasons (for example funeral or terminal care) or medically motivated purposes such as accompanying children during a hospital stay is still permitted, explained a government spokesman. A state ordinance will regulate details of the measures to contain the corona pandemic. It should be worked out by Sunday and then published. "The new regulation will come into force on Monday," it said.

Departure also from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

There is also a compulsory break for tourism in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Due to the partial corona lockdown, vacationers have to leave the state by November 5 at the latest. This was announced by Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) on Friday evening in Schwerin after a cabinet meeting. Basically, from November 2nd onwards, no more guests are allowed to be accepted for tourist purposes for the rest of the month.

"Of course, for the guests who are already there, they have time to travel back," said Schwesig. This therefore applies to all bookings made up to and including Friday. If you book accommodation later, you have to leave by next Monday.

Criticism from the tourism industry

The fact that tourist accommodation in Germany will be banned in November provoked criticism in the industry. However, the Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga) Schleswig-Holstein wants to forego legal action against the new corona measures, as association president Axel Strehl said on Friday."In any case, only individual companies could sue in court," said Strehl. "And these companies would then probably not receive government aid of up to 75 percent of November 2019 sales."

The federal government had already announced that it would take over 75 percent of the loss of sales for companies with a maximum of 50 employees that are affected by the partial lockdown. For this purpose, the turnover of the previous year November should serve as a comparison.

The week-long autumn vacation began in Bavaria on Friday. The managing director of the German Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga) in Bavaria, Ulrich Frank-John, said on Saturday: "We would have liked to keep the tourists." He called the fact that the hospitality industry was particularly affected by the new measures as "completely disproportionate". (lw / ft / dpa)

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