Jean Castex visiting Haute-Savoie | Ski resorts: no health pass unless the incidence exceeds 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants – Le Dauphiné Libéré

Arrival in the Hall of the Mayors’ Congress.

12:07 p.m .: Jean-Luc Boch, mayor of La Plagne Tarentaise (Savoie) and president of the National Association of mayors of mountain resorts: “I was in Paris the day before yesterday for the negotiations, in Matignon. This is very good (speaking of Jean Castex’s announcement on the opening of the stations this winter without application of the health pass, as long as the incidence rate remains below 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, Editor’s note). For once, we have been listened to and heard. It is a collaborative effort. We will be able to calmly open our ski lifts. It’s pretty positive. We will try everything to make it work properly, all mountain professionals, never to experience a closure like last year. I always have a bitter taste in my mouth when I talk about it. There was compensation from the State but what we want is to work, not to be compensated. ”

12h: the Prime Minister arrived at Rochexpo for the Congress of Mayors of Haute-Savoie.

Arrival at midday of the Prime Minister in the enclosure of Rochexpo, coming to meet the mayors and elected officials of Haute-Savoie (more than 1000 people).

11:41 am: Phew of total relief for French mountain professionals. Traveling this Saturday, November 6 in Haute-Savoie, Prime Minister Jean Castex, eagerly awaited on the question of the modalities for reopening ski resorts, reassured everyone.

“We will be able to start a good season in our ski resorts, without a health pass. We will only activate its application if the national incidence rate exceeds 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants” officially announced this Saturday at midday Prime Minister Jean Castex, in his closing speech at the 88th Congress of Mayors of Haute-Savoie, held in La Roche-sur-Foron.

“The pandemic is still there, we must remain vigilant and pragmatic, without lowering our guard,” added Jean Castex. At the same time, a “serious and reinforced” health protocol, with “random checks”, will be applied: distancing, wearing a mask indoors, in queues and brewing places. “If ever the situation were to evolve in the wrong direction, we will adapt, weapon in hand, to guarantee the credibility of a winter season that we want serene and dignified”, specified the Prime Minister who will notify the players concerned as soon as possible. “If the health situation were to worsen, in the event of a new variant for example, I undertake to respect a period of eight days between the announcement of the changes and their implementation,” he reassured.

The Prime Minister therefore chose Haute-Savoie this Saturday to reassure all French mountain players in search of visibility and certainty to welcome their customers in the best conditions, at the dawn of a new season in which they matter a lot.

At the beginning of the morning, Jean Castex had made a stopover at Grand-Bornand in the Aravis to meet traders and mountain professionals. The Prime Minister had let them hear the government guidelines now formalized and had been warmly thanked, up to the expectations of professionals in the sector. The ski season promises to be good.

10:02 am: On the move this Saturday, November 6 in Haute-Savoie, Prime Minister Jean Castex made a stopover this morning in Grand-Bornand, to meet traders and mountain professionals. Arrived shortly after 9 a.m. in the Aravis, the Prime Minister began his visit to the Perillat store, a historic ski rental company in the heart of the resort for five generations, then went to the tourist office to take the pulse of the season approaching. On the menu of discussions, the morale of the professionals, their determination to have a good season, the encouraging reservation rate but also the difficulties of recruiting seasonal workers.

Jean Castex at the Perrillat store in the heart of the resort, to take the pulse of the approaching winter season

The long-awaited Prime Minister on the question of whether or not to apply the health pass

While the winter sports resorts are preparing to welcome the public back to the slopes in the coming weeks, Prime Minister Jean Castex, eagerly awaited on the question of the application or not of the sanitary pass, is not sure. is not expressed on the opening conditions of the ski lifts this winter in France, reserving its official announcements for the 88th Congress of Mayors of Haute-Savoie, where it is expected at the end of the morning, in La Roche-sur-Foron.

Faced with the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the activity of the resorts, Jean Castex wanted to collect the feelings of the traders in the field, before meeting the actors and mountain professionals within the Space Grand-Bo, to discuss their economic situation and better understand their current concerns, at the dawn of the tourist season. Jean Castex did not fail to recall the implementation in recent months of exceptional support measures to help economic actors in the mountains, in particular the “Avenir mountains” plan endowed with 650 million euros, which he had presented. last May.

Arrival of Jean Castex in Le Grand-Bornand