"I am asked: when can you give on vacation? It is not only the policy that decides and I have asked the Technical Scientific Committee to have prescriptions that allow the reopening and will give me an answer within the week and based on this we will act . I will say as soon as possible. We will have holidays, they will be different, we will have to use the distancing measures, the masks, the sanitization but the holidays can be done. This is also why we are urging the European authorities, because we want there to be European rules of common health prescriptionavoiding the risk of bilateral agreements between countries, because we have seen that the epidemic knows no borders ", says the Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, during the information on the initiatives to combat Covid-19, reiterating that culture and tourism together make up 20% of the GDP and that in the decree coming from 55 billion there will be measures concerning tourism. The minister reiterated that the sector is "on its knees" and the state of crisis has not been declared because "we are far beyond the emergency" and much more urgent and concrete actions are needed.
The DL of May - he underlined - which contains measures for 55 billion, we want to approve it within this week and will contain many specific measures on tourism ". In particular" an economic acknowledgment to companies that have had a sharp drop in turnover compared to the similar period of the Last year. It should be a help - he specifies - with a non-repayable fund for companies below a certain turnover threshold ".
The coronavirus, moreover, continues to devastate Italian tourism: over 40 thousand companies in the Italian tourism sector - according to a survey by Demoskopika - risk bankruptcy due to the loss of financial strength with a contraction in turnover of at least 10 billion euros.
An entrepreneurial mortality that would immediately affect the job market with a loss of over 184 thousand jobs. Already in the first three months of the year it is almost 7 thousand units less, against a decrease of 6 thousand in the first quarter of 2019, in fact, the balance between registered and closed companies. The worst birth-mortality balance of the tourism system from 1995 to today.