BERLIN, Dec 13 — Planes may well be mainly grounded owing to the coronavirus pandemic, but at one particular travel agency in southern Germany, smoked fish and fantastic wines are flying off the cabinets as an alternative.
Prospects can acquire their orders of smoked trout or char, accompanied by a bottle of fantastic German wine, each individual other Friday from the agency in Groebenzell, Bavaria.
“We are offering a lot more than 200 fish just about every time. The revenue even covers our rent,” reported company operator Helmut Lang, 63.
The agency also managed to sell some 500 bottles of wine in whole during November.
Lang and his colleague Hans Goetschl, who runs another agency in close by Munich, arrived up with the plan right after talking to a mutual pal who comes about to be a admirer of fishing in the Tegernsee lake, south of the Bavarian money.
“He told us — in his thick Bavarian accent — if you can’t offer your excursions, just provide my fish,” Lang recollects.
A couple days later, the two mates collected a batch of fish from Tegernsee and then marketed it in their respective agencies — in Groebenzell, with all-around 4,000 inhabitants, and in Munich, the third premier town in Germany.
They later on launched an on line ordering system and now get typical deliveries of the smoked fish from Tegernsee in awesome bins.
Rosina, a standard at the Groebenzell company, has not skipped an order. “You don’t get fish like this in the stores,” she claimed, including that she also desires “to assistance the travel agency”.
Coronavirus constraints have all but wiped out demand in the tourism sector in Germany, with enterprise for the two colleagues this 12 months diminished to a handful of outings to the Canaries.
Lang is hoping they will be capable to continue on with the task even if non-crucial retailers are told to near thanks to the worsening Covid-19 predicament in Germany.
“If all goes very well, we’re going to established up a new firm on January 1,” Lang reported, the intention being to continue to offer the fish and wine together with holiday seasons with a gastronomic bent. — AFP