Very bad news for Italian tourism

Very bad news for Italian tourism
Very bad news for Italian tourism

From an early estimate, tourism in Italy will suffer significant damage which, only by May 31, will produce a negative rebound of approximately 45 million visits with financial damage that is expected to exceed โ‚ฌ10 billion.

Luca Patanรฉ President of Confturismo – Confcommercio and Carlo Sangalli, national president of Confcommercio have sounded an alarm requiring the mobilization of all available resources to offer the maximum protection to the economic dynamics of the hotel and commercial enterprises, and to safeguard the employment numbers.

“The situation is dramatic for the entire sector.” says the president of Confturismo-Confcommercio, Luca Patanรฉ.

“You need to take strong measures immediately to introduce liquidity into the system by giving oxygen to companies in the sector.”

Carlo Sangalli, national president of Confcommercio, in an interview with Qn ( magazine), said: “Destination Italy risks disappearing totally from international tourism radars. The further wave of contagion in the last week is producing damage that is difficult to recover soon.”

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Mario Masciullo - eTN Italy

Mario is a veteran in the travel industry.
His experience extends worldwide since 1960 when at the age of 21 he started exploring Japan, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
Mario has seen the World Tourism develop up to date and witnessed the
destruction of the root/testimony of the past of a good number of countries in favor of modernity/progress.
During the last 20 years Mario's travel experience has concentrated in South East Asia and of late included the Indian Sub Continent.

Part of Mario's work experience includes multi activities in the Civil Aviation
field concluded after organizing the kik off of for Malaysia Singapore Airlines in Italy as an Institutor and continued for 16 years in the role of Sales /Marketing Manager Italy for Singapore Airlines after the split of the two governments in October 1972.

Mario's official Journalist license is by the "National Order of Journalists Rome, Italy in 1977.

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