The alarm of Cto San Marino “Without interventions the sector dies”
The Organized Tourism Committee (Cto) from San Marino joins the cry of alarm launched by Astoi to Fiavet, Fto, Aidit, Assoviaggi and Maavi and it requires targeted and timely interventions to save the sector. Data in hand emerges a bleak picture.
Among the requests of the associations there are first of all non-repayable refreshments with percentages and amounts useful to support activities (minimum 5% of turnover losses between 2019-2021), liquidity support with 100% state guarantees and subsidized loans, extension of the earnings supplement (cause 5), spreading of losses exercise, cost containment of staff returning from the CIG, pre-amortization extension subsidized loans.
“The state must do its part: tourism is not a whim – he declares Luca Ruco, representative and Cto San Marino – we ask the secretaries Lonfernini (Labor) Gatti (Finance) to listen to our requests. Our companies are dying, in the indifference of the institutions. It seems that no one, in San Marino as in part in Italy, is aware of the gravity of the crisis facing tour operators and travel agencies. From February 2020 to December 2021, more than 90% of turnover was lost of most of our associates. We are collapsing, we urgently need consistent relief from losses and concrete actions. The government must take responsibility for securing organized tourism or the guilt of killing ”.
According to the official Italian estimates, trips abroad are recorded in 2021 a decrease of 92%, while the business trip lost three quarters of its turnover e the events sector loses 80% of your business. also the incoming has collapsed, the presence of foreigners fell by 54%, while the school tourism is still blocked..
“Among the tragedies of possible unemployment in the sector (about 400 families), an important data also emerges – continues Ruco – in a moment in which female employment is among the most affected: 283 are women, employed today, who could lose the job. Without immediate government intervention, the history of an entire sector that has always contributed to the economy of our country over the last 50 years ends “.