Tourist tax this year will be worth "only" 182 mln

(by Cinzia Conti) (ANSA) - ROME, JUNE 01 - Last year it had been a treasure of 622 million, this year it will have a drop of almost 71% and will only reach 182 million. To take stock of the loved (by municipal administrations) and hated (by operators and travelers) tourist tax is the National Observatory on this JFC tax, which specifies, however, that weighing will not only be lockdown and tourism crisis.
    "2020 - explains Massimo Feruzzi, sole director of the tourism consultancy and marketing company - will be a national, regional, local and even hyperlocal journalism with limited mobility and a psychological condition that does not weaken. All this will have an effect on holiday consumption, conbudget more limited than usual and a reduction in the length of stay. Many destinations, therefore, are trying to find solutions to support the sector, keep customers loyal and win new ones. Among the policies adopted by the municipal administrations there is the decision to suspend the tourist tax for the whole of 2020 ".
    A choice which, if on the one hand affects the "morale" of the operators, on the other creates further difficulties for the municipal balance. And in this case too, we proceed in random order: many locations have already taken or are deciding to suspend the tax for the whole year or for a few months (from Jesolo to Forte dei Marmi, from Fiuggi to Pescara, from Orvieto to Lucca, from Siena in Pompeii, from Vicenza to Vasto, etc.), other administrations extend forward the payment to the Municipality of the tax collected (from Rome to Rimini, from Venice to Fiesole, from Alessandria to Lecce, from Ancona to Brescia, etc.). There are also requests to return the sums paid to the operators or those who think about a reduction in the tax itself (for example Arzachena or Vico del Gargano) and those who increase marketing investments on tourism by using more massively the funds obtained from the tax. stay to support the tourist economy (for example Sanremo ". (ANSA).