With successive lockdowns and curfews, leisure activities are among the big losers from the pandemic. Financial losses, decrease in attendance, reorientation of activity… For these professionals too, times are hard.
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Karting de Lommerange: a reorientation of activities
With its two tracks, the lommerangeois karting site ensured several aspects of activity: leisure, security, spare parts and competition. However, concerning the last one, 2020 was a year without, literally.
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“With the cancellation of the races, we show a drop in attendance of 80%, against 40% this summer, advance Maurice Terenzi, employee of the place. We decided to shift our focus entirely to rentals for a while. As it is an outdoor activity , we are allowed to continue, with a disinfection of helmets, shuttlecocks and buckets at each passage and a washing of the combinations provided for the children. “
The part importing parts is also suffering. “It will simply stop,” comments Isabelle Guglietti, owner of the premises.
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Escape game Guild of Gamers experience : à l’arrêt
In Terville, in Super Green, it is impossible to afford a brief moment of escape in the l’escape game Guild of Gamers experience. For Alain Konne, manager of the brand, the report is bitter. “We have been closed since October 30. Despite everything that had been put in place to welcome customers with the strictest respect for sanitary instructions, 6 customers maximum in an escape room, use of gloves, masks, disinfection after passage, we remain closed. Our virtual reality activity complied with regulations with 7 m² per person. 2020 has been a year all the more difficult as we were really in a good dynamic during the first months. We were going to destroy the house! “
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If the manager was able to rely on a solid cash flow and state aid, he confesses, the outlook is not good. “From January, we will be setting up a click & collect on board games. It can only be beneficial afterwards. And we are also considering other projects. “
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Veckring paint ball: dreary season
“The French Paintball Federation is trying to fight, but today it all depends on the prefecture and the limit of 6 people. In Veckring, the launchers’ breath has died down for the winter when the site is usually operating all year round. Mickael Amar, director of the site, accuses the blow of a year when all the important moments have passed under his nose.
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“Usually, from mid-March to mid-May, we are in full swing. There we were confined. When we reopened, foreigners couldn’t come. July-August failed to make up for the losses. It’s simple, in 2020, we were at 50% of the figure of the previous year. It is important that we can reopen in March and be able to do the full year. “
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