Maastricht is not happy that it is mentioned so prominently in Locatus’ research. “That’s just the case. What we mainly have to deal with is that normally a lot of Germans and Belgians come to this city. So when those borders closed, we felt that enormously”, says Leontien Mees of Maastricht Marketing in NOS Radio 1 News.
The city is trying to recover. Chairman Ton Harmes of the shopkeepers association: “We all sat around the table very quickly: shopkeepers, catering establishments, the municipality. How do we get back on track? And this has resulted in measures. Terraces have become larger, shops are longer. open, to create space, literally and figuratively. Spread is of course important. Come to Maastricht on a Tuesday morning. “
Mees also points to the intensive cooperation with the Heuvelland, the rest of South Limburg: “You can very well stay here in a hotel, then you spend the day outside the city and return here in the evening to eat. in a restaurant. Maastricht is bigger than Maastricht alone. “
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