In how many years will a country that has made tourism a strong axis of its economy recover from Covid?
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During the 2009 crisis, it took two to three years for the Italian hotel industry to recover the occupancy rates of 2007, and five to six years to recover its prices
", explains Bernabo Bocca, the president of the association. Federalberghi hoteliers.
Just a year after discovering a Chinese couple with Covid in a hotel in Rome, hoteliers are seeing the scale of the disaster.
Today, no more than 80 hotels, or less than 7% of the park, are open in the capital.
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In 2020, the tourist presence in Italy fell on average by 54% (with 236 million fewer visits), and hotel turnover by 55% compared to 2019,
explains Bernabo Bocca.
An average that covers a collapse of 80% to 85% in art cities, and a drop from 20% to 30% in small seaside towns.
»Because it is the foreign tourists who have completely deserted the artistic cities (70% of nights less), in particular the Americans, the
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