No limit on ski passes and chairlifts, online ticket purchase encouraged.Use of a mask in common areas and on lifts is essential
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The guidelines are outlined to save the next ski season. The Chamber of Deputies has approved the obligation to use the Green pass to access the ski lifts. And at the same time, on Wednesday in Milan, the Italian Winter Sports Federation (Fisi) together with the National Association of Cable Car Operators (Anef), Federfuni, Amsi and Colnaz, approved the protocol for the reopening of the ski areas and for the use of ski lifts.
These are the main innovations: 100% capacity of the chairlifts and limited to 80% if used with the closing of the windbreak domes; capacity reduced to 80 percent also for gondola lifts and cable cars. No limit on ski passes, the purchase of tickets online will also be encouraged to the maximum.
The protocol also provides that interpersonal distancing is guaranteed in the ski areas covered, with the presence of staff to regulate flows, multilingual signs and information boards. The use of a surgical mask is mandatory in the common areas and on the ski lifts. Masks also for the staff assigned to welcoming or starting the plants.
The decree passed by the House, on which the government has placed its trust, now passes to the Senate and will be converted by 5 October. The issue was also discussed in the Regional Council this week. “The decision to ask the customers of the ski lifts for the Green pass during the winter season will increase the capacity, even in transport,” the councilor for economic development Luigi Bertschy said in the regional court on Tuesday. Responding to a question from the councilor of Pour l’Autonomie, Marco Carrel, who asked to know the measures shared with tour operators and health care to allow foreign tourists to obtain green certification and which communication strategies, Bertschy explained: «The Regions have asked the government to give answers to the problem of the movement of people, in particular those coming from the countries of Eastern Europe; in August, a working group was set up involving all the interested actors, institutional and economic, which will be extended to include local authorities and which will meet again in the next few days ». Amelio Ambrosi