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Alarm of organized tourism, aid and openings immediately

2021-10-15T09:27:57.970Z


Choral event at TTG Rimini: 13 billion in 2019, 2.5 in 2021 (ANSA) If the whole world of tourism has suffered during these 20 months of pandemic, one sector in particular has been brought to its knees, that of organized tourism. A sector that in 2019 had produced a turnover of 13.3 billion euros, up 4% on 2018. A sector that was healthy and vital and in 2020 it "plummeted" to 3 billion and in 2021 it will probably hardly reach 2.5 billion. A sector that today at


If the whole world of tourism has suffered during these 20 months of pandemic, one sector in particular has been brought to its knees, that of organized tourism. A sector that in 2019 had produced a turnover of 13.3 billion euros, up 4% on 2018. A sector that was healthy and vital and in 2020 it "plummeted" to 3 billion and in 2021 it will probably hardly reach 2.5 billion. A sector that today at the TTG Travel Experience in Rimini shouted its pain in a strong and compact way, bringing together on the same stage all the main representatives of the associations of tour operators and agencies and a vast audience of travel agents and employees. All with the same shirt that united the CEO, the director and the youngest of the employees with the unmistakable wording IMMEDIATELY. Immediately supports,immediately certainty of the layoffs and immediately reopening of all the destinations to resume work and support themselves.


    The 'immediately' is the most important part, so that it does not happen, as explained by the president of Astoi Confindustria Pier Ezhaya, that the ambulance arrives "when the patient is dead". And so that politics "may not be distracted by electoral campaigns", as Franco Gattinoni, president of the FTO Federation for Organized Tourism, says.


    A choral and heartfelt event at the same time that ended with a huge group selfie to be sent as a postcard asking for help to all the ministers involved (tourism in the first place but also Health, Work, Transport etc) in a sector like this. transversal and varied as is tourism which in 2019 was worth 13% of GDP and obtained a ministry of its own only with the Draghi government. "We just want one thing to be clear: our work takes place through Italian companies, which pay taxes in Italy and have Italian employees, we are the first supporters of Italy.


    And we cannot be treated differently than those who work in Italy. , it's not fair, "Ezhaya says again.


    Organized tourism - as Gabriele Milani of Fto sadly points out - has stopped only in Italy and not the rest of the world. In France, Spain and Germany it is allowed to travel, in Italy there are restrictions on travel for tourism and for work. "When we talk about tourism, we talk about so many things - says Gattinoni - that it is impossible to make people understand how many things it represents and how much work is done. It is the first sector in the world for GDP and also for the number of employees. . One worker in 4 deals with direct or direct tourism, tourism for pleasure but also work, school. In Italy it is a sector that employs 80,000 people. We just want to return to earn with our work, let us work, we support ourselves but do it now ".


    "Urgency" says Ivana Jelinic of Fiavet Confcommercio forcefully. "Since the early stages of the pandemic - he explains - we have requested that interventions be rapid but bureaucracy has been put in place, which is the real tumor of this country. A muddled terrain in which a company enters and finds itself fighting with time that are not compatible with the life of a company, especially in an emergency phase. Something has arrived but always with a terrible delay and many of our companies in the meantime have had to close and we continue to request it in a unanimous way, I wish I could be more positive, but for 20 months we have been struggling every day with papers and forms, we have learned to read decrees and laws. We do not need announcements and press releases, we need the decree, the paper that sings ".


    "In some small businesses, the redundancy fund is lower than the citizenship income and in 2020 our sector is the one that got the most debt of all and therefore if the moratorium is not extended it will be the end for many companies that will not be able to pay "recalled Gianni Rebecchi of Assoviaggi Confesercenti. And he added: "We are more than alive, we don't want to be treated like video libraries in the age of Netflix".


    "Battle" is the cry of Enrica Montanucci, president of Maavi (Movimento Autonomo Travel Agencies). "It is an oxymoron to approach this term with tourism because tourism is the opposite, it is joy, lightness, rest. Instead we have been forced to battle every day for 20 months. We cannot tolerate the indolence on the part of the institutions. We had the corridors reopened because if we waited for the minister we were fresh, we went to solve the problems alone.


    The Minister of Health is responsible for the last months of damage. hypochondria of the minister, a lack of courage to take responsibility cannot lead to the greatest crisis in history ".


    Then there is Domenico Pellegrino of Aidit: "We lack the product, our product is the world, they took the world away from us, it only happened to us because in Europe it went differently. We have a cultural problem instead: we divide stupidly in good tourism, that of incoming, and a bad one that of outgoing which is perceived as the one that distracts Italians and takes the currency out. But which category, which industry, which sector does it live without exporting? 3 arrive in Italy. It is a system that is killing us, then we have the bomb triggered by the vouchers, we are the only country that has this problem, we are talking about 500 million euros that must come out of companies already so tried ".

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Source: ansa

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