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Ordinance of Easter, the hotelier of Florence: “We die of rage, others steal our tourists”

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FLORENCE – It manages three four stars in Florence, one of which is in the center. And it employs 96 employees, most of them on layoffs. Giancarlo Carniani is the general manager of the To Florence Hotels group, as well as the creator of Bto, the most important Italian event dedicated to the online distribution of tourist products, which takes place every year in the Tuscan capital. And today he is “furious” at the possibility of spending the Easter holidays abroad, while the entire peninsula will be subject to heavy restrictions.

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What makes her angry?
“I find it paradoxical, to put it mildly, that from Tuscany you can go to the Canary Islands but not to Emilia-Romagna. We hoteliers feel forgotten and we are very angry. Not because we don’t understand the reasons for the red zone, but because we see so many other countries. gear up in view of a restart of tourism, while we lack a time horizon. In Greece and Spain precise protocols have already been developed, and reservations are taking off “.

What is the situation of the sector in a city of art like Florence?
“Very heavy. I manage three hotels, and the only one open today is Villa Olmi, because it hosts the Fiorentina rallies. The Plaza Lucchesi, in the center, reopened a couple of months last summer. The last one, the Mulino di Florence has been closed since March 2020. Almost all of our employees have been on layoffs for more than a year “.

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Would you be willing to adopt even more stringent security measures, just to start again?
“What will be asked of us, we are ready to do so. As happened last summer, when we responded very quickly to every request for sanitation and reorganization. It is uncertainty that kills us. vaccinations are proceeding expeditiously, if we knew that we can take safe holidays in Italy. Furthermore, the limits to mobility must stop: I understand that they are considered necessary for another month, but then that’s enough. We are ready to a

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