It is getting busier everywhere, not only on the street but also in the bars. And that is where things happen that, according to club owners, cannot be explained.
Nightclub sees ‘party movies’ with sad eyes (Source: YouTube / AT5)
Various videos and photos circulate on social media of parties in hotel bars or in smaller party cafes. They fall wrong with the nightclubs that must at least keep the doors closed until September 1.
“The feeling is awful, a kind of dichotomy, discouragement. A sense of why she is?”, says Pim Evers, chairman of Koninklijke Horeca Nederland in Amsterdam.
According to him, there is talk among club owners among themselves to then just open themselves, but: “They dare not, but every club is working on a way in which you could do something”said Evers.
The entertainment scene has long believed that with good ventilation and strict rules, something should be experimented in nightlife again.
The illegal parties, this weekend in the Amsterdamse Bos, show the need for this again, according to Evers: “When young people ‘go out’ they don’t call 112 because you might get a fine of 400 euros for the man. We have a fairly safe environment in a club, know what to do if things go wrong.”
But while the virus is still there, the outlook for the industry is not exactly bright. Evers: “Suppose we come to the conclusion, really well-founded, that it is not possible at all. Then you have to save the clubs, because they are falling over.”
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