Coronavirus, Forza Italia proposes to MiBACT the creation of a Tourism Emergency Fund

With an agenda presented in the Senate on April 8, Forza Italia senators, led by group leader Anna Maria Bernini, are calling on the Ministry of Culture to create a Tourism Emergency Fund to deal with the damage caused by the health emergency due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. “Tourism,” the act reads, “is the sector with the greatest economic damage as a result of the epidemiological emergency caused by the spread of Covid-19. The entire tourism supply chain, from accommodation to catering, from tour operators and travel agencies to beach services, is at a standstill, and forecasts through May indicate losses of nearly 90 million tourist presences between Italians and foreigners, and more than 500,000 seasonal workers at risk.”

Those who deserve special attention, according to the blue senators, are “businesses that are part of the tourism supply chain and, specifically, business owners operating in receptivity hotel and non-hotel accommodation, owners of food and beverage establishments, travel agencies, tour operators, owners of bathing establishments, tour guides and tour leaders, and bus and car rentals, who, as a result of the epidemiological emergency from COVID-19, have ceased, reduced or suspended their activities.”

According to estimates, “the damage estimated for the entire sector would amount to about 16 billion,” therefore, the document continues, “in order to contain the negative effects resulting from the epidemiological emergency, it would be appropriate to provide measures aimed at recognizing a tax credit for the year 2020 in a congruous measure of the amount of the rent of real estate instrumental to the conduct of the business activity of tourist accommodation facilities and spa facilities or the amount paid by the manager as consideration for the rental of the business.”

So, the senators commit the government to establish, in the MiBACT estimates, “a fund called the ’Tourism Emergency Fund’ in order to support businesses that are part of the tourism supply chain and, specifically, the owners of activities operating in the receptivity hotel and non-hotel accommodation, the owners of food and beverage establishments, travel agencies, tour operators, owners of bathing establishments, tour guides and tour leaders, and bus and car renters, and aimed at ensuring the recognition of an allowance to the aforementioned individuals.”

Pictured is the Baptistery of Florence

Coronavirus, Forza Italia proposes to MiBACT the creation of a Tourism Emergency Fund

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