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The Prime Minister, in the presence of Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery, Elisabeth Borne, Minister of Labor, Employment and Integration, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Secretary of State for Tourism, French Abroad and Francophonie, Roxana Maracineanu, Minister Delegate in charge of Sports and Joël Giraud, Secretary of State for Rural Affairs, brought together on Friday the actors of the mountain sector.
After several consultations around the representatives of the sector, the Government announced exceptional and unprecedented support measures to help mountain businesses that are impacted by the closure of ski lifts during the holiday season.
Ski lift operators, both public and private, will benefit from a support fund enabling them to offset 70% of the fixed costs related to the operation of the ski lifts, themselves set at 70% of revenues, including missions to secure the ski areas. The reference revenue will be calculated on the average of the last three years corresponding to the closure period. This aid is not capped, subject to notification to the European Commission.
All businesses located in ski resorts and the valleys that depend on them, which have fewer than 50 employees and which justify a loss of turnover of more than 50%, will be included in the sectors covered by the “tourism plan”. As such, they will be able to benefit from aid from the solidarity fund of up to 10,000 euros and partial activity with 100% coverage. The measure will apply not only in the communes of ski resorts, but also in the communes of the valleys that depend on them (mountain communes that are members of an EPCI supporting a ski resort and that do not belong to an urban unit with more than 50,000 inhabitants).
Ski instructors, as individuals, will be able to access the solidarity fund with an option right allowing them to compensate for the loss of their turnover up to 10,000 euros or 20% of their turnover achieved over the same period in 2019.
Other tourism and hotel activities linked to the operation of winter sports resorts are already benefiting from increased aid from the solidarity fund thanks to their integration into the tourism plan.
In order to enable mountain professionals to secure the hiring of seasonal workers, the Government decided, as of November 30, to grant the benefit of the partial activity to the companies concerned until the resorts resume operations. This measure taken to protect jobs is already bearing fruit: the ski lifts have already hired 95% of their seasonal workers.
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