VALENCIA. The Valencia Business Hospitality Federation (Fehv) has asked this Friday “solidarity” and “generosity” both to the City of Valencia and to the residents of the city to allow exceptional measures to be implemented on the terraces of hotel establishments in order to cushion the crisis of the sector by Mandatory measures of social distancing due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Federation held a meeting on Wednesday with the Councilor for Activities in Valencia, Lucia Beamud, and in a statement, he regretted that the main demands that were put on the table have been rejected, although he appreciated the consistorial decision to suspend the terrace rate.
“Issues such as the extension of summer time or the reversal and revision of the limitations of terraces in areas such as El Carmen, Ruzafa or the center have been dismissed, mainly referring to the need to make the balance between the activity compatible business and the rest of the neighbors “, explains the Fehv.
Councilor Beamud pointed out in this regard that the council has a “commitment to work to facilitate everything possible in the return to normality of bars and restaurants” but recalled that “this must be combined in an irrevocable manner with neighborhood rights as the right to rest. “
Thus, the mayor said that the City Council will not modify the hours and the hours established now for the closure of terraces will be maintained “in order to guarantee that people who live in neighborhoods with a strong concentration of entertainment venues can also rest.” What the municipal administration did say in this regard is “expedite the granting of new terrace licenses, always guaranteeing that the regulations are met.”
For all these reasons, the hospitality collective of València has wanted to explain “to the Valencia City Council, the neighborhood community and society in general” that the sector is asking for measures “of an extraordinary nature with a time frame for the coming summer and autumn months to alleviate the situation experienced by the closure of the establishments and to reactivate the operation of the premises “.
It is a moment, for the Federation, in which the whole society “has to be in solidarity” with the collectives and business sectors, because “it will be necessary to favor the start-up of work and the recovery of the local economy” in the coming months . Otherwise, they stress, it will mean the closure of many establishments and the consequent loss of jobs.
“The hospitality industry wants to resume its activity committed to hygienic-sanitary regulations to reinforce the safety of customers and workers,” they maintain in the statement, but “it currently needs the support of the City Council and the solidarity of neighborhood groups as well.”
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