Many events have been moved to next year, including the Eurovision Song Contest, and Ahoy is also working on a number of new events. But all this does not make up for the losses in 2020. In addition, the future is very uncertain, because because of the corona measures, far fewer people are welcome than before.
“We would love to offer all our events a full stage again,” says Jansen. “We are in discussion with the government about this. We, as an industry, want to show that we can organize live events in a responsible manner.”
Not the first
Rotterdam Ahoy is not the first major event location to fire people. Last month, 30 percent of the jobs were cut at the RAI Amsterdam conference center; 125 employees lost their jobs.
The Ziggo Dome and Afas Live and other concert halls, theaters and conference centers also had to fire employees.
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