Every year, in the period preceding Easter, we try to outline the trend of the holiday by surveying the sentiment on bookings and customer nationality. Today, unfortunately, our hotels do not compare themselves with an average figure developed through a survey, but collide with a reality that has far exceeded the boundaries of the imaginary.
Easter 2020, due to coronavirus, will be remembered for over 95% of hotel structures closed throughout the national territory, 5 million missed presences and a loss of turnover relating to the sale of rooms alone of 300 million euros in just the three days between Saturday and Monday of Angel. Businesses, families and workers stranded but ready to return to life through work, everyday life and being an active part of the country's economic engine.
Even the recent analysis conducted by Confindustria Study Centre confirmed the unprecedented impact of covid-19 on the Italian production system and on tourism. It therefore becomes necessary to support our companies and once again we underline the need to identify specific measures that allow us to be ready to restart as soon as this health, social and economic crisis is over.
“We therefore appeal to the institutions” writes Confindustria Alberghi in a note “so that, in the April decree, there is a response to the rental problem, which is essential for the sector which concerns over 50% of large, small and very small companies”.
“As reiterated time and again,” concludes the press release, “a provision is needed which intervenes on the rental fees for properties used for hotel use and allows the survival of the many companies forced to bear an out-of-pocket cost on an activity which is currently at a standstill and which however, in the coming months it will be able to count on a very partial and slowed down market. The restart, as we imagine, will be gradual and to exit from lockdown prepared, companies are already looking at organizing the hotel offer in compliance with the new requirements of respecting social distancing. Clear and certain rules will be fundamental to restore confidence in the market and serenity to operators and guests".
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