traders in protest ready for a tax strike
The shops in the lower area of the historic center of San Marino and the former station square were damaged by an unfair management of tourist flows. Harsh reply from the Secretary of Tourism Pedini Amati.
At the origin of the protest the journey that the train takes to transport tourists but also the lift of the large covered parking that would not induce vacationers to walk up from the lower area of the historic center, making them prefer the train that takes them directly to the upper area.
“From Piazza Garibaldi to Via Eugippo and down to the former station we all have this problem which has become extremely serious” declares the tourist trader Giovanni Fabbri. “Six – he says – the shops that, despite being inside the walls, have closed their doors, while in the former station area are only 14 licenses remained active, out of 35 some time ago “. Merchants who have unfairly passed “from tourist flows, they do not rule out the tax strikeas an extreme form of protest, but they also propose a solution: “Un alternative service with a another train at a reduced cost ”, they say. Also fueling the anger of the traders is the fact that the Secretary of State for Tourism, according to them, never received them to listen to their grievances.
On the controversy of tourist flows, the Secretary of Stator Federico Pedini Amati issued a statement to San Marino Rtv: “There is certainly one condition of suffering which concerns the “ex-station” area which a December 2020in the budget law, I had proposed to deal with a number of instruments which unfortunately have not been followed by the government. However, I intend to return to the problem: I guarantee my full support for the project Railway Museum in the Montale Gallery, with the possibility for users to board the electromotive for a short distance. Once this must be distinguished, it must however be said that the Historic Center cannot be split up and divided on the basis of those are the particular interests of this or that economic operator. This is the far west, the all against all, the democratic disorganization. It is not tourism. These unspecified operators in the lower part of the historic center threaten him tax strike when attendance data returned to even better levels than pre-covid data. Not solo. These same operators keep activities closed in conjunction with events, with the districts overflowing with visitors. In this way not only the use of public resources committed by the Tourist Office is nullified, but it gives the image of a country that does not exist. I no longer intend to tolerate this state of affairs. In this regard, I announce that tomorrow I will hold one Press conference to explain what measures it intends to implement “.
Toni during those of the Secretary of State Pedini Amati to whom the trade association also addresses Sammarinese Trade and Tourism Union asking theprovision of the transport service to avoid further discontent and diatribes and relaunches the proposal of a “sort of surface metro” to unite the Unesco sites of the Republic, from Borgo Maggiore to San Marino City.