"Micro" holidays with a decided inclination towards the mountains, the sea and the "open places" and less desire for cities of art. It is the photograph of the summer holidays of Covid-19 taken by Confturismo Confcommercio in collaboration with Swg. The survey shows that the share of Italians who plan to pack their bags in the months between June and August is up compared to April (from 19% to 48%).
Last year, it was 70% in the same period.
The trips will be short, very short, maximum three days. And one Italian out of five thinks that he won't take a holiday this year.
The choice of the beach destination also goes up for 49% of those who will take a holiday - we are still under 61% of 2019 - while the attraction of mountain destinations "gains altitude", probably perceived as open spaces and therefore safer: 23% against 18% in May 2019. The
opposite effect for cities of art, stable from April to 17% of respondents' preferences and 9 points below the May survey last year. Only 15% of respondents will visit museums, monuments and exhibitions on vacation, compared to 37% last year.
Fewer tourists in the cities bring negative chain effects on the whole supply chain. For example, shopping is indicated only by 5% of respondents against 20% in May 2019. A disaster announced for those local services and commerce activities that rely on tourists, far more than on residents, to achieve their volume objectives business, emphasizes the Confturismo survey.
But what worries most of all is the type of holiday that the Italians say they want to do this summer. 35 out of 100 declare that they will make short journeys, with 2 or 3 overnight stays at most, while staying close to home. To think so, in May 2019, there were only 14%, less than half.
"Ignoring such a dramatic picture and not reacting immediately by adopting measures focused on tourism - explains the president of Confturismo-Confcommercio, Luca Patané - would be folly. If ours is truly a strategic sector for the Italian economy - and it is certainly not we have to prove it, because it is enough to look at the facts without blindfolding ourselves - then the Government immediately studies a Cura Turismo decree after Cura Italia ". (HANDLE).
Short and in the mountains, Covid's summer holidays
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"Micro" holidays with a decided inclination towards the mountains, the sea and the "open places" and less desire for cities of art. It is the photograph of the summer holidays of Covid-19 taken by Confturismo Confcommercio in collaboration with Swg. (HANDLE)