Self Catering Tourism
Self catering holiday tourism should be able to open up before hotels and b&bs. Social distancing and strict cleaning measures can be adhered to.
Why the contribution is important
Self catering holiday cottages are probably the easiest source of tourism to get started back up. There will be increased demand for staycations while people cannot travel abroad. The grants provided at the moment no where near cover overheads as self catering businesses have to income coming in at all as they do not know when lockdown will end and at present can accept money for bookings that are later in the year that have been booked in since last year
by Stephaniekeachie on May 05, 2020 at 08:40PM
Posted by LAM May 05, 2020 at 21:10
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Posted by trixie May 05, 2020 at 21:39
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Posted by Bethan May 05, 2020 at 21:45
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Posted by Elainey May 05, 2020 at 22:37
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Posted by Jeannie May 05, 2020 at 22:57
There has already been reports of holiday home owners letting their properties during lockdown and it’s a hard area to police
No tourists until our hospitals can cope with there normal workload without the worry of a second wave of this virus
I feel sorry for people losing there income but it would not be fair on rural communities to risk infecting them by letting properties
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Posted by Stephaniekeachie May 06, 2020 at 07:23
Many holiday cottage owners are finding that their insurance companies aren’t covering cancellations that they are having to make. We have bookings that were made last year for this year with deposits received last year and balances due to be paid shortly. The deposits have been spent on cottage overheads (cleaning gardening electric) we cannot accept the balance as we don’t know if guests can come. We have no income coming in at all. We do not do short breaks most guests are here for 7 days although some are here for 14days. We have received a single £10,000 grant when the actually running costs of the business are nearer £30,000 across the 3 properties and the fishing. We currently have £11,000 of bookings to refund from the period of the lockdown until the end of June.
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Posted by mary May 06, 2020 at 09:22
Rural communities should be reasured that this (as for other measures) would only commence once infection rates had reduced and test trace and isolate were in place.
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Posted by RobertDG May 06, 2020 at 17:18
All of our staff will receive full training on the correct cleaning procedures.
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Posted by Ginakeenan May 06, 2020 at 17:45
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Posted by DHenderson May 11, 2020 at 17:00
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Posted by Cathol May 11, 2020 at 17:58
Are not eligible for grants so no income.
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