Cto San Marino: “The government does not abandon the tourism sector”
“The emergency does not await the time of bureaucracy”.
To declare it is Cto San Marino, underlining in a note that “the situation remains really difficult for organized tourism operators who join the requests of the Italian associations of the same name, even if we have finally returned to travel we are far from a situation that can be defined as back to normal ; but more than opinions we let the official figures speak for themselves, as published in the Italian trade press ”.
“From the point of view of international flows, the tourism it will likely close at 2021 levels with a decrease of 85% compared to 2019 – remarks Cto San Marino -. From an economic point of view, the total expenditure on tourism stands at around 40% of the pre-pandemic period hoping that it will not subside even more given the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. at the moment over 100 million jobs in the tourism sector are at risk in the EU, in the special in the countries most affected by the restrictions such as Italy and San Marino, which are the first list for time wasters as a percentage of the workforce. School tourism, which represents an important slice of the turnover of national operators, is even further away from recovery ”.
“From 1 April the ban on educational travel ends and the sector finally returns to allowing students to travel after two years of total detention, but obviously we are far from normalfirst of all because 4 months of operation have already been missing, while in April and May tour operators cannot count on many hotels that are still closed today, up to 40% according to Federalberghi – highlights Cto San Marino -. Furthermore, this is equal to 70%, compared to the so-called normality, also for 2022 “.
The Italian domestic tourism “Is thesingle in recovery but makes use of DIYthat bypasses the companies in the sector “.
“This is the global situation that organized tourism faces and we believe it is important to inform the population and politics that, in this moment in which we are all breathing a newfound normality, the damages caused by two years of hiatus are not at all behind us for our sector, and in all European countries, prudent support plans for the sector are envisaged with special special funds and social safety nets, after the interventions that have already been foreseen – finally affirms Cto San Marino -. We also thank the government for the extension of the redundancy fund (Cig), but we hope that the San Marino government will take care of a primary sector of the country that cannot and must not be abandoned, it can be considered out of danger “.