"You can't plan later. There are businesses that can open overnight like the barber shop. Others don't, like the big hotels. You have to monitor the data and open the data as soon as possible. We need to plan to be fast, otherwise the others will overtake us ".
This was stated by the Minister of Tourism, Massimo Garavaglia, speaking at Omnibus.
"In France we speak of July 14, in the US of July 4,
June 2 is our national holiday and it could be a reopening date for us
", he continued.
"We are working sector by sector to give specific dates - he stressed again -.
We give serious protocols and dates. There is a very ideological debate on reopening, we are not ideological. There is also an ideological position in the media, not there is black or white.
Only giving negative signals is wrong because the economy also thrives on expectations. We monitor week by week ".
"Last year they did not know what we were facing - he added -, this time we have the experience of last year and a vaccination plan that is proceeding.
We are working on the Green Pass which provides for three conditions, the vaccine, having had the covid and the negative swab.
It is not discriminatory and we already exist in Sardinia.
Do you think how nice if last year we had listened to Solinas in Sardinia.
It is a model that is already taking hold, because for example there are already numerous flights that are proceeding like this ".
"Greece has many islands and that's why it is moving in that direction, we could do it. The point is to create mechanisms that make it simple to move around. The direction seems clear enough to me," said Massimo Garavaglia, answering a question from Alessandra Sardoni on the title of Il Messaggero relating to a government plan to create
covid-free islands
also in Italy.