Without more money and fewer Covid restrictions businesses will be in 'peril', UK Hospitality Cymru says.
David Chapman, director of UK Hospitality Cymru, said: "We haven't got the revenue to be able to see our businesses through properly to the end of these restrictions."announced before ChristmasPublic Health Wales reported 21,279 new Covid cases and 10 new deaths in a 48-hour period leading up to Tuesday morning.The case rate quadrupled in the last two weeks of December from 523 on 14 December to 2,133 to on December.
Although English hospitality reported a shortfall, Mr Chapman said revenue in Wales was at least 25% lower than across the boarder at present. He said the trade body was not calling for furlough to return, but stressed "if financial support isn't swiftly forthcoming, grave commercial impacts are inevitable, which will hugely damage communities across Wales".
"While we appreciate there are serious health implications for omicron, we appreciate there are serious health and economic implications that are involved with our industry not having sufficient support.'We can't carry on like this'Ellen Morris said her business was still recovering from debt mounted during previous lockdowns
Ellen Morris, owner of The Plas Coch and The Ship pubs in Bala, Gwynedd, said she had to triple staff to be ready for table service when the new restrictions came in, but "everybody went over the border to England"."We can't carry on like this, there'll end up being no hospitality trade in Wales."
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