A hotelier from Toledo completed his first day on a hunger strike this Monday to highlight the very difficult situation that the hospitality industry has been going through over the last year due to the coronavirus pandemic and has asked the entire sector and the distribution sector to unite in the demands for solutions to the ruin that is coming upon them.
Alfonso Beltran has set up the tent at the gates of the collegiate church of Torrijos (Toledo), where he has spent his first night and where he plans to camp for the next few days, despite the curfew because, as he has explained to the Efe Agency, that is now your habitual residence and therefore you will not have any problem in that regard.
He has said that the mayor has told him so, who has also indicated that from time to time a doctor will go to check his health, to control him during the withdrawal from solid foods that has begun.
Beltran, who defines himself as a humble third-generation hotelier entrepreneur, owns a restaurant and a catering company, with four employees at ERTE, and the bills are flat.
Since January 18, the hotel business in Castilla-La Mancha has been closed to stop the advance of the covid-19 and, without any income, he has to face the expenses: his son’s pension, the mortgage, the taxes and the restaurant and catering company expenses; He estimates that between 4,000 and 5,000 euros a month of expenses but no income.
Beltran He explained that he himself fell ill with coronavirus in mid-January and, after a “very painful and lonely” quarantine, he has not stopped thinking about the “so dramatic” situation that the hospitality industry is going through, which has led him to launch a video and a campaign on social networks to denounce the neglect of the sector, asking for union and support to get help.
The Toledo hotelier says that there are two viruses, that of covid-19, “very destructive and deadly”, and that of the political class, “as dangerous or more”, because politicians are more concerned “about their party interests” than by citizens.
Alfonso Beltran He explained that with this hunger strike he intends to obtain the support of the hoteliers of Spain and the distributors, because the more they are in the demands, the more force they will have, “we are a million hoteliers who need a solution.”
“That we all get on the same boat and row in the same direction,” has asked the Toledo hotelier who has opened a campaign on social networks to channel their demands.
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