Ski resorts want to do everything to make it safe in the mountains, says AHS director Libor Knot. Although they also process their own measures with hygienists, special attention will be paid to the national ones.
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“There are three basic ones – personal hygiene, mouth covered with a veil, or in our case a scarf, and sufficient spacing. This is intertwined with everything we will recommend to the premises, “said Knot, adding that the centers themselves will be involved in the implementation of the measures, thus marking, for example, the gaps at the box offices or boarding places on the cable car.
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A major change awaits especially après ski, which will operate in a completely different mode this year than skiers are used to. They can say goodbye to exuberant parties in the coming season. “It will be much calmer, mostly for sitting. There will be no loud music and dancing. Centrally ordered measures will apply in the mountains as well as in Prague, Brno or Ostrava, ”Knot explained.
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Hygiene measures will also affect other operations, whether rental shops or ski schools, where care will also be taken to ensure, for example, spacing, disinfection of equipment or reduction of training groups. Internal rules are also being adopted for staff so that staff know how to behave in the event of a person appearing at the center who is subsequently diagnosed with a coronavirus infection.
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Lots of time to start
So far, the operators of the resorts expect a relatively normal season. But with two months to go, it’s difficult to predict how the situation will turn out, according to Knot. “We have to reckon with everything,” commented the director of AHS on what will happen in the event of an absolute lockdown.
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“It simply came to our notice then. Of course, this would affect the lives of people in the regions and cause great economic damage. We have calculated that in the area of mountain resorts, around 45,000 people are employed in tourism. In those remote areas of mountain villages, it is often one of the few industries where it can be implemented, “explained Knot.
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According to AHS President Kateřina Neumannová, the resorts are also betting on the fact that skiing is an outdoor sport. “Exercising outdoors is a thing that improves health, so we firmly hope that visitors will find their way to the mountains,” she said.
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Ski pass prices will not change at 70 percent of resorts this year and will remain the same. Elsewhere, it will become more expensive in the order of tens of crowns. This year, the price of a one-day ski pass for 6 of the 40 largest ski resorts in the Czech Republic is 617 crowns for adults and 455 crowns for children.
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