Farewell to the Gruppo Caroli hotel chain
“Due to the high costs of electricity, our historic hotel chain is shut down after almost sixty years of uninterrupted activity”. Attilio Caputo tells AGIgeneral manager of Caroli Hotels, a well-known Apulian hotel group with four hotels between Gallipoli and Santa Maria di Leuca, 275 employees and various other activities in the hospitality sector. The decision to interrupt all hotel and restaurant services for new customers, honoring until expiry only existing contracts and those already stipulated, “has already been forwarded to the prefecture of Lecce”, explains Caputo.
The electricity bills relating to last August for the four hotels of the chain reach a total amount of about 500 thousand euros. “Although we regret the disservice that we will create for guests, partners and suppliers, the disproportionate and unsustainable costs, which have totally eroded profit margins, make it impossible to guarantee the continuation of the business, even though resorting to the opportunities offered by the credit system and the implementation of photovoltaic systems, the installation of which has not yet been authorized ”, underlines the hotel manager. Caroli Hotels, having started its own hotel business in 1966, can be considered a pioneering reality in the hotel hospitality sector.
“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 create the conditions for a reopening”, he concludes. Giancarlo De Venuto, president of the Lecce section of AssoHotel, sharing the concerns of fellow hoteliers launches an appeal. “I advocate effective policies not palliative methods to prevent other hotel companies from throwing in the towel. We need to react immediately, to calm prices in a sensitive way, to avoid the risk of having tourists but not having businesses to welcome them ”, she says.
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