Dear bills, pandemic emergency, swine fever. According to the director of the Provincial Union of Hoteliers Carlo Scrivano, “it is an explosive mix for tourism” and “heavily affects the hotel sector which in the last two years has had to deal with the Covid crisis which has slowed arrivals and reduced the number of attendance “.
Scrivano’s analysis starts from the skyrocketing costs of electricity and gas bills: “Aid from the government covers only 6%. Although the executive for this first quarter has disbursed a good 5.5 billion euros in aid to families and businesses to counter the high bills, the amount remains, unfortunately, completely insufficient to mitigate the additional costs they will have to suffer this year. domestic and non-domestic users “.
The other chapter concerns the Covid emergency. “As in the last two years, Italians await the developments of the pandemic – continues the director of the UPA -. The Covid emergency has had a significant impact on the tourism sector which has had to deal not only with the containment measures of the virus, which have imposed long closures and limitations, but also with the loss of an important share of turnover represented by foreign tourists. This has determined a change in the tourist demand that requires the ability to rethink not only the services offered, but also the places and In addition, the still uncertain prospects in terms of the spread of the virus require urgent and shared choices between operators and politics capable of encouraging investments and adequate planning for the next tourist season “.
The last chapter on which Scrivano focuses is swine fever: “A new emergency that weighs heavily on the outdoors with heavy repercussions on a tourist product that allows us to extend the season from mid-March, therefore in the following months of April and May . An emergency that risks compromising the green tourism sector even in autumn “.