Franceschini confident: we'll go to the beach this summer, and museums already thinking about how to reopen

It is a confident Dario Franceschini who answered questions from Emanuela Minucci of La Stampa in yesterday’s edition, Sunday, April 12. The interview was about the management of the emergency in the culture sector and especially about the aftermath, that is, what will happen when the restrictive measures are eased (although “prudence” will be needed). Meanwhile, the minister of cultural heritage let it be known that, as far as crowded places such as cinemas, theaters, and concerts are concerned, “until the vaccine we will have to live with the risk of contagion. Crowded places by nature have an objective extra problem. In some cases not only in the audience but also on the stage. We are thinking about how to reconcile safety and reopening. It won’t be easy but we will succeed.”

Museums are also thinking about how to reopen: “we will discuss it with the scientific committee and the task force led by Colao,” Franceschini said. “In the meantime, museums are organizing with distances, deferred entries, queues, sanitation.” As for the tourism sector, the minister said it is the “most dramatically affected sector: from day one I have been explaining this to my ministerial colleagues. Before international tourism returns, unfortunately, a lot of time will pass.” But Franceschini is nevertheless convinced that tourism will return: at the end of the emergency, according to him, art cities “will return as before because Italy is indispensable for all world travelers.” But during the emergency “we will have to focus on domestic tourism. We are thinking of measures to compensate for the lost revenue from the tourist tax.”

On how the summer will go, Franceschini is convinced that we will be able to go to the beach: when asked about this, he responds with an eloquent “but yes!” and also adds that “it depends on how we will respect the measures of these days. Then the scientists will tell us the safety prescriptions on crowding.” Finally, the minister shares the call for Italian vacations: “we are working on an incentive that will push Italians to spend on domestic tourism. The year 2020 can become a year in which to discover lesser-known Italy: villages, walks, bike paths, historic trains.”

Franceschini confident: we'll go to the beach this summer, and museums already thinking about how to reopen

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