Many have praised the swift decision making of the organisers to cancel early while others seem happy to have a year off from the event.Deb Firth said: “I’m sorry for the lost income with the current situation, but I can say I’m so pleased that as a Bathion it will be nice to have our city back this Christmas”Ollie Fitton-Cook said: “I get its value for Bath but TBH it’s nice to have a year off from it.”Debbie L Powell said: “Wise decision to cancel now rather than in November”Phil Johnston said: “Any other decision could not have been justified.
"It is a huge event that brings in almost half a million people to the relatively small city of Bath in just a two week period. The … I know it’s a massive money-maker for so many people including Bath council, but it’s not worth the risk. Much of the year's production is sold at Christmas.It's not just local sales - the Bath Christmas market brings in customers from all over the country.

Citing safety concerns due to the event’s growth, the Lake Mohawk Country Club Board of Trustees notified them they would no longer host the event.The market’s organizers and the Sussex County Fairgrounds brokered a deal in March to host this year’s three-day event on the Frankford fields.The event will still be held at the fairgrounds from Dec. 3-5 in 2021.The three-day market has, over the past 19 years, welcomed friends, families and visitors from all over to usher in the holiday season with gifts, music and traditional German food. Organizers say the 53rd annual event — scheduled for Nov. 12 … We hoped that the epidemic would be over before November. Organisers Visit Bath have axed the popular event … “Our decision comes with the commitment that next year will be our biggest and greatest event ever, marking the 20th annual German Christmas Market.”In January, the organizers of the market, which often draws 125 vendors and 25,000 visitors each year, was served a “blow” when they were left without a place to call home. Go! One Bristol based trader, Espensen Spirit, who sell naturally infused spirits said they couldn't afford to go if trade wasn't going to be as good.The risk of "spending thousands" on stock for a market that could have been quiet due to the pandemic was too big.Im in Bristol - and was going to apply but just couldn’t afford to take the risk of spending thousands on stock if it was hugely reduced in terms of trade - this is such a sensible decision all round.One stall holder has said that losing the trade from the market will be a tragedy. A collective sigh of relieve, especially when you see the pix - reminding us exactly how many people from all over flock to the city. "I hope that Bath BID, the council and Visit Bath do come up with a way to make the city feel magical without filling it with sheds.

And it’s not fair for all the people working in Bath to be subject to the risk of thousands of people flocking to the city who could be carriers.Helen from Taste of Bath, who works with over 30 local producers, said: "This will have a huge impact".
The dropping of such an impactful is likely to have significant detrimental effect on the local economy.Restaurants, bars, hotels, taxi firms and of course the stall holders will all see a big cut in their expected income, which will likely mean they will all be considering how they face the coming months which already looked bleak after three months of lockdown.This is the figures Visit Bath have for the effect of the event in 2019.One of the chalets at Bath Christmas market last year Emma Savage who runs Grace and Ted pictured at last years Christmas Market She goes onto say that this is a large revenue stream for them meaning this Christmas will be hard but she said she supports the decision to cancel the market.She pleads that people must shop local to help support businesses. "The CEO of Visit Bath said that they will be creating a exciting programme of events in Bath in the four weeks in the run up to Christmas which can be delivered in a Covid-19 secure way.While many will lament the loss of the iconic event from the city's social calendar, many residents and even some businesses had grown tried of the market.Its sheer size sees vast crowds often bottle-necking Bath tiny streets and the resulting litter and traffic and litter problems have irked some enough to want to see it axed, or reduced in size.We will be getting all the reaction from across the city and attempt to get more information on what will take place this Christmas.Locals have said that they understand that calling off the market must have been a "very difficult" decision. Boston's decision to hold the four-day event in November comes after Lincoln decided to abandon its Christmas market for 2020.