Chaos as 30,000 British tourists told to leave French ski resorts

[KY_EnviroGuy]

Chaos as 30,000 British tourists told to leave French ski resorts
Urgent repatriation efforts under way after mountain resorts close to tackle coronavirus
Lisa O'Carroll @lisaocarroll
Sun 15 Mar 2020 13.31 GMT

Read it here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/coronavirus-chaos-as-30000-british-tourists-told-to-leave-french-ski-resorts

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Urgent efforts to repatriate 30,000 British tourists from ski resorts in France are under way amid warnings of “widespread failures” in the travel sector in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

French mountain resorts closed at midnight on Saturday, hours after tens of thousands of skiers had landed for their annual holiday in the snow. Leading ski and summer activity holiday company Neilson has called for the government to step in with “emergency measures”.

There were reports of chaos and confusion across the Alps with one source saying local police had taken the French government’s message into their own hands and were going round hotels and restaurants telling marooned Britons to go home immediately.

Would someone please tell this dumb 'ole country boy why the hell so many people are still far way from home on vacations and business and school-related trips including thousands of Americans?

Sounds like a very bad case of Boris and Donald to me.

KY.............. .......

[BusyBeingBest]

1. How dumb do you have to be to go to a foreign country to go skiing right now--

seriously? Do these Britons not watch the news--at all? Think none of this applies to them?

[msongs]

2. bad timing - after bone dry FEB, california mountains get feet of snow dumped on them nt