San Marino. Free-wheeling Tourism Secretariat on tour operators and “The Christmas of Wonders”
“The secretariat of state for tourism believes that some clarifications are necessary relating to the different media interventions that involved it today”.
The says so state secretariat for tourism, explaining in a note that he believes “it is a duty to provide the San Marino citizens with useful elements for better questions regarding the world of tour operators and the controversies raised following the fireworks that inaugurated ‘The Christmas of Wonders’; it is also a duty , from the secretariat of state for tourism, an invitation to don Gabriele Mangiarotti who, observing too carefully only one of the numerous cribs set up in the historic center, has evidently lost the beauty of all the others “.
“Today”, explains the Tourism secretariat, “the spokesperson of the Committee for Organized Tourism, Luca Ruco, returned to ask for liquidity injections from the state as an initiative to support the category; once again the initiatives of this group of entrepreneurs come after many of the required clarifications had already been provided to them (in this specific case, by the Secretary of State for Tourism, Federico Pedini Amati, during and on the sidelines of the meeting held during the sessions of the ‘ViceVersa’ program of San Marino Rtv) “.
The secretariat of state for tourism goes on with the statement: “It is good to clarify that San Marino tour operators will receive 50,000 euros each non-repayable and have also already benefited from tax relief and Cig ‘causa 5’ which guarantees employees 100% of salaries. For a total direct and indirect intervention of the state of over 1.5 million. On the other hand, what the spokesperson of the Organized Tourism Committee was unable to clarify is whether the tour operators operating in the area sell San Marino as a tourist destination as well as for the country and, above all, why compared to the 162 million annual turnover declared to the press, only 400,000 euros were recorded for the tax authorities“.
In relation to the protests made by Apas and residents of the historic center for the 80 seconds of fireworks display that accompanied the shows on the second day of ‘The Christmas of Wonders’, however, the secretariat of state “intends to reiterate how attention to residents and animals is a priority and shared, while rejecting any kind of exploitation to the sender: if the intent is to leverage last Sunday’s event, attention to the Arengo application approved in 2020 is It should also be remembered that the resulting decree will provide for fireworks for events of particularly significant importance, among which it is not possible not to consider ‘The Christmas of Wonders’, the main event of the winter tourist season“.
The Tourism Secretariat is a river in flood: “Even before the inauguration of the 2021/2022 edition of ‘The Christmas of Wonders’, a further controversy was ignited by the parish priest Don Gabriele Mangiarotti who communicated in the press of not having appreciated the style of a historian, specifically in the area dedicated to children and studied and designed specifically for the little ones. other cribs closer to the traditional representation of the nativity are scattered in numerous other places in the historic center and that stands out, for the first year, a large crib also in Piazza della Libertà , the only thing left to do is invite don Gabriele Mangiarotti to the historic center for a walk which will also have the great pleasure of attending the Secretary of State for Tourism, Federico Pedini Amati“.
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