Boutique hotel manager: We have 2 rooms filled. I don’t know how we’ll survive

A manager of a chain of boutique hotels in Tel Aviv tells Channel 12 that her main site currently is serving two rooms’ worth of guests as it struggles to cope with the coronavirus pandemic.

“If before I thought that closing a hotel would be difficult and to see it closed for three months, it turns out that reopening the hotel — which means three weeks of disinfecting and preparing it — only for the hotel to remain empty, it’s much more difficult now,” Gilat Ilan says.

She says that typically during the month of July, her hotels are 90% full, but that number has plummeted to just six percent.

“Every time we get a phone call from someone interested in coming we celebrate, but it’s very, very sad here.. The situation is very difficult and I just don’t know how we’re going to survive,” she says.