“As soon as the traffic light was switched to red, the cancellations were there immediately. The traffic light gives a completely wrong impression, because the situation in the tourist resorts is completely different and the hotels are completely safe places. We all know that the big clusters are created somewhere else. Politicians have to intervene and they have to be really careful with the scalpel and not run over everyone with the hedge trimmer, ”said Veit, himself a hotelier in the Salzburg tourist resort of Obertauern, in the radio interview.
For the tourism industry, however, it is not about abolishing restrictions. Rather, they demand a quicker switch to the 2-G rule, since most of the guests are vaccinated anyway. “We saw it already in the summer that 85 percent of our guests were vaccinated,” emphasized Veit. The governors from Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg had already deposited the wish to abolish the traffic lights in the Ministry of Health on Friday.
Along with Upper Austria, Salzburg is currently the federal state with the highest seven-day incidence. According to the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), the value on Friday was just under 453. Experts recently assumed that the numbers will continue to rise. The red switching of the Corona traffic light should therefore not change anytime soon.
