Since 2000, the number of inns in Lower Austria has fallen from 2,800 to 1,819. Every third pub is closed forever. The state now wants to counter the trend and has therefore presented its own pub package.
“O’zapft is” is the motto for the blue-yellow pub package from January 1, 2024. The country is spending four million euros on this. Specifically, three funding channels in the package are intended to maintain and strengthen local inns. A maximum of EUR 100,000 in total support can be granted for an individual company:
Most of this can be attributed to the Start-up and takeover guidance, which is not valid retroactively. Entrepreneurs who opened during the Corona period, which was particularly difficult for innkeepers, fell through the cracks. A subsidy of up to ten percent of the investment or up to 50,000 euros is planned. The
Support for investments in inns and hotels – from furniture to guest gardens – is quadrupled to up to 40,000 euros. The subsidy amounts to a maximum of 20 percent of the investment amount.
A topic that is already being hotly debated Tavern bonus There is an incentive for the maintenance, takeover and revitalization of the inns for an amount of 10,000 euros.
Tyrol as a role model
The focus is on year-round opening hours, a ‘regional food and drink offering’ and close cooperation with regional suppliers and producers. “Sausage and kebab stalls are excluded,” explained state governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner. Mikl-Leitner mentioned Tyrol as a model for the bonus. Here, the support introduced in 2019 for the takeover of existing inns has now been doubled to 20,000 euros. Based on the experiences from Tyrol, it is expected that Lower Austria will receive a maximum of 20 applications per year.
FPÖ state representative Udo Landbauer added: “We don’t want our fellow countrymen to ever have to look at the last schnitzel in a museum.” . .
Chamber of Commerce department chairman Mario Pulker, in turn, spoke of a “great day”. We worked together very intensively and looked at how we could support the catering and hotel industry. “We are facing many challenges, especially a lack of workers, huge increases in interest rates and food prices. I am pleased that we are implementing this today and I firmly believe that this provides a basis for curbing the decline in the number of host countries in the country. Because: When the landlord dies, the village dies. “That’s an old saying that comes true,” Pulker explains.
Source: Krone
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