Toulouse: pataquès in emergency accommodation
The management of the Hotel Riquet, in Toulouse, is surprised at the emergence of a Parisian travel agency to manage an emergency accommodation platform.
The owners of the Riquet hotel in Toulouse wrote to the president of the Haute Garonne departmental council, the mayor of Toulouse and president of Toulouse Métropole, parliamentarians and the presidents of associations concerned with emergency accommodation. This hotel participates, like other establishments, in emergency accommodation, a citizen mission delegated by the Department (only for single mothers and minors, for the rest by the prefecture and the CCAS).
“At the beginning of September, we were contacted by the company Promhotel Travel Services who told us that from 1uh January 2022, it represents the management of these accommodations using a reservation platform (following) a wish of the senators to have more transparency and to save money. As a taxpayer, we can only welcome this approach “, write René and Valérie Piganiol, the owners of the hotel, who wonder about the company Promhotel Travel Services,” its history, its shareholders “:” another company Promotel travel services was closed in 2008 “, with the same last name for the CEO. The hotel asks” if there really was a call for tenders (and if) the communities participated “.
The hoteliers fear to be put to contribution on each reservation, tariffs fixed by category of hotels according to their classification, and are astonished by “the absence of communication of information by the communities, elected officials, administrations (on) this development “, calling for the greatest transparency, particularly in the face of the increase in feminicides and domestic violence. The hotel stresses that its “citizen mission”, continued during the pandemic, has a cost: “at each departure of a resident (in emergency accommodation, Editor’s note), the room must be redone from floor to ceiling (about 20 000 euros per room) “