Garavaglia, the pass also for non-EU tourists

If Prime Minister Mario Draghi, at the end of the G20 tourism, had invited the whole world to book Italian holidays, announcing a pass that will anticipate the European one from 15 May, the Minister of Tourism Massimo Garavaglia adds numerous valuable information on the subject.

"The Italian pass - he specifies speaking to SkyTg24 Economy - will be valid for everyone, also and above all for tourists from outside the EU. a certain amount of time or have a negative swab ". The important thing now, according to Garavaglia, is to run fast since "last year, not having foreign customers in our country made us lose 28 billion euros, more than a point and a half of GDP". And to leave no doubts, the minister uses the metaphor of Formula 1: "The Covid crisis is comparable to the entry of the Safety Car into a grand prix, when there is an accident, it is now out and whoever runs fastest wins. fast and organized.Compared to Greece that made this measure on the islands and that's it, we want to be fast. It is essential for foreign tourism and to restart bookings. Only the United States and Great Britain together account for more than 30% of the arrival of foreigners in Italy, moreover foreigners who spend a lot "." With the pass operation - explains Garavaglia - foreigners return, and they return to where the hotels have had more suffering, in the cities of art. As long as foreign tourists are told that there are quarantine and curfews, they don't book. Now the quarantine with the pass is no more, it is known that the curfew will be revised shortly, reservations are back. The real support is to get back to invoicing ".fundamental for foreign tourism and to restart bookings. Only the United States and Great Britain together account for more than 30% of the arrival of foreigners in Italy, moreover foreigners who spend a lot "." With the pass operation - explains Garavaglia - foreigners return, and they return to where the hotels have had more suffering, in the cities of art. As long as foreign tourists are told that there are quarantine and curfews, they don't book. Now the quarantine with the pass is no more, it is known that the curfew will be revised shortly, reservations are back. The real support is to get back to invoicing ".fundamental for foreign tourism and to restart bookings. Only the United States and Great Britain together account for more than 30% of the arrival of foreigners in Italy, moreover foreigners who spend a lot "." With the pass operation - explains Garavaglia - foreigners return, and they return to where the hotels have had more suffering, in the cities of art. As long as foreign tourists are told that there are quarantine and curfews, they don't book. Now the quarantine with the pass is no more, it is known that the curfew will be revised shortly, reservations are back. The real support is to get back to invoicing ".moreover, foreigners who spend a lot "." With the pass operation - explains Garavaglia - foreigners return, and they go back to where hotels have suffered most, in the cities of art. As long as foreign tourists are told that there are quarantine and curfews, they don't book. Now the quarantine with the pass is no more, it is known that the curfew will be revised shortly, reservations are back. The real support is to get back to invoicing ".moreover, foreigners who spend a lot "." With the pass operation - explains Garavaglia - foreigners return, and they go back to where hotels have suffered most, in the cities of art. As long as foreign tourists are told that there are quarantine and curfews, they don't book. Now the quarantine with the pass is no more, it is known that the curfew will be revised shortly, reservations are back. The real support is to get back to invoicing ".we know that the curfew will be revised shortly, bookings are back. The real support is to get back to invoicing ".we know that the curfew will be revised shortly, bookings are back. The real support is to get back to invoicing ".

According to the owner of Tourism, we are in a delicate moment "not only for the balance of the majority". "In the US - he says - there have been more deaths from Covid 19 than the sum of the two wars in Vietnam and the Gulf and in Italy the situation is unfortunately no different", the minister said again at the presentation "Communication, media and tourism" conducted by Research center on television and audiovisuals (Certa) of the Catholic University together with Publitalia '80 - Mediaset Group. "The government's action - explains the minister - has three legs. The first is support for operators. We have released 500 million that were still and had not been distributed and we have deployed additional funds (1 billion and 700 million in the previous Sostegni decree and will come again in the next).The second leg - he continues - concerns the financial instruments that can support the investments of the operators in the sector and improve the plants. Mini bonds and basket bonds will be made available to ease the credit crunch. They will be guaranteed by public institutions so that they can give real support to those in difficulty. The goal is to build a financial bridge that allows you to "buy time" while waiting for the market to resume and we hope already in the summer. "The third leg, according to Garavaglia, is the NRP:" We have made available 2.4 billion ( 600 in subsidies and 1.8 billion in the form of loans to businesses and considering the leverage effect is also a few billion more) "he concludes. On the Covid Free islands he says:" By definition they are fragile,because they have a small share of the population which is invaded by large numbers. Let's get vaccinated and also give a good signal to the tourism system and to the world that we are ready ".