The emergency does not await the times of bureaucracy
The situation remains really difficult for the operators of organized tourism of the CTO San Marino 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 numbers of the official data speak, as published by the Italian trade press. From the point of view of international flows, tourism will probably close at the levels of 2021 with a decrease of 85% compared to 2019. From an economic point of view, the total expenditure for tourism is around 40% in 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, especially in the countries most affected by the restrictions such as Italy and San Marino, which are the first on the 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 block on educational travel ends and the sector returns to make students travel after two years of total stop, but obviously we are very far from normality, first of all because there are already 4 months of operation missing, while in April and May tour operators cannot count on many hotel capacities which are still closed today, up to 40% according to Federalberghi. Furthermore, the uncertainty about how the covid situation in the autumn and the repercussions of the Ukrainian conflict, in an increasingly uncertain future for which a market loss of around 70% is expected, is countered by a suitable recovery that allows programming to be adequate. , compared to the so-called normality, also for 2022. Italian domestic tourism is the only one in recovery but it makes use of do-it-yourself, which 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 all breathe a newfound normality, the damages caused by two years of stop are not at all behind for our sector. , and in all Europeans, prudent support plans for the sector are envisaged with special special funds and social safety nets, after the interventions that have already been foreseen in countries. We also thank the government for the extension of the redundancy fund (CIG), but we hope that the San Marino government takes care of a primary sector of the country that cannot and must not be abandoned, nor can it be considered out of danger.
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