Caroli Hotel throws in the towel and closes its doors after almost 60 years of activity. One of the best-known hotel chains in Puglia succumbs to high bills. The announcement comes from the general manager of the structure, Attilio Caputo. The electricity bills, in fact, reached a total amount of about 500 thousand euros, only in the month of August.
This is why Caroli Hotels, an Apulian chain made up of four hotels between Gallipoli and Santa Maria di Leuca, was forced to close. ” Due to the high costs of electricity, our historic hotel chain is shut down after almost sixty years of uninterrupted activity ”, explained Caputo. A company with 60 years of activity and 275 employees, who now risk staying at home. “Although we regret the disservice that we will create for guests, partners and suppliers – explained Caputo -, the disproportionate and unsustainable costs, which have totally eroded profit margins, make it impossible to guarantee the continuation of the activity, while resorting to the opportunities offered by the system credit and the implementation of photovoltaic systems, the installation of which has not yet been authorized “, reads.
The decision to stop all hotel and restaurant services has already been forwarded to the prefecture of Lecce. “In further thanking our collaborators, who will, alas, be the first to be penalized by the situation that has arisen, we hope that a return to normality can recreate the conditions for a reopening”, concludes the hotel manager. “I invoke incisive policies and not palliative methods to prevent other hotel companies from throwing in the towel – declares Giancarlo De Venuto, president of the Lecce section of AssoHotel, shares the concerns of fellow hoteliers – We need to react immediately, calm prices in a sensitive way, to avoid the risk of having tourists but not having businesses to welcome them ”.
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