Hotel bosses slam shops for bank-holiday closures
Friday, August 19, 2016 @ 11:21 PM
"Tourists won't return if towns are shut for four days at Easter"
Hoteliers in the Basque city of Bilbao have heavily criticised shopkeepers for refusing to open on bank holidays or, in some cases, even the days in between, saying tourists find their destination 'deserted' and do not bother to return.
Monday this week – August 15 – was a public holiday and, being attached to a weekend, gave many working Spaniards the chance to take a short break – but nothing was open, not even the huge high-street chain stores.
And every year at Easter, all bar the supermarkets are closed on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, leaving only a Saturday in the middle of a five-day period when the city showed any sign of life.
"We work hard to get clients to come and stay in our hotels, clients from all over the world ...
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