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The owner of the Alpino Hotel, Daniel Tenenbaum, uses his mobile phone, in a room of his hotel in Buenos Aires. | AFP/Ronaldo Schemidt
When the government-imposed Covid-19 quarantine began in Buenos Aires City, Daniel Tenenbaum installed himself in his empty hotel to protect it from a possible squatter invasion. Other owners boarded up windows and doors too, fearing long closures. More than 15 months on, with Argentina’s borders still closed to tourists, the hoteliers are still suffering from the lack of guests.
Despite periods of relaxed restrictions since last October, the hotel owners of the nation’s capital do not perceive any major immediate changes in their new reality of empty rooms, darkened corridors and silent lobbies.