FILE PHOTO: People walk with snowshoes on a winter day amid lockdown measures during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in the resort of Semnoz in Viuz-la-Chiesaz near Annecy, France, January 20, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
ANNECY, France (Reuters) - No one relishes the COVID-19 epidemic and the death it has brought, but Philippe Gallay, boss of one of the world's biggest snowshoe manufacturers, acknowledges it has been good for business. Sales of his company's product have exploded.
In France, where Gallay's TSL firm is based, and in other countries, officials stung by virus clusters in ski resorts have closed chair lifts, button lifts and cable cars at ski resorts.
