Thousands of jobs have gone in the parent company of Ibis and Novotel in the

hotel Chain: Accor, the company behind the Novotel and Ibis hotels, and was forced to lay off thousands of jobs. Reports that the company, which was a Tuesday its half-year figures published. For example, Accor employs a total of approximately eighteen thousand employees.

The reduction in the number of jobs as part of a wider package of measures, which the French company has a total of 200 million euros, want to save money.

the Dutch government wants to Accor, the coronacrisis, that is, the chain significantly affected the head. The French people were registered in the first half of the year was a loss of about 1.5 billion euros. This was especially due to the fact a lot was to write down on its assets. Also, the number of postings went, of course, strongly back the lockdownmaatregelen worldwide were put into place.

The sales came in the first six months amounted to 917 million euro, a reduction compared to the revenue in the same period of the previous year.

Accor is also active in the Netherlands, among others, the hotels of the Mercure, Ibis and Novotel. It is not known whether or not there are job losses in the Netherlands and, if so, how much.

Still, shares of Accor to note that there has been some improvement in all of the regions in which the company's hotels. On the 1st of August was 81 per cent, of the 5.099 hotels will re-open.