Tour guides against Mi Manda Rai 3: "Damaged the image of our profession."

During the June 20 episode of the program Mi Manda Rai 3, dedicated to the topic of low-cost travel, a travel blogger, Barbara Perrone, advised viewers of free walking tour services by presenting them as “free walks available to travelers”: these are guided tours available in various cities, bookable online, and carried out by non-professional staff (although in reality they are not free, because in order to avail oneself of the services of such amateur guides it is necessary to acknowledge an “offer” that is not presented as a fee for paying for the service, although in fact it is).

ANGT (National Association of Tourist Guides) tour guides have written to RAI to protest the damage to the image of the profession allegedly caused by the television broadcast and to demand a correction on the content, the possibility of a reply, and the conduct of the necessary checks to understand whether serious elements of misleading advertising or the like have passed in the program.

<è> “A public service broadcast,” stresses Adina Persano, ANGT president, “cannot promote guided tours in which an unlicensed operator claims to provide service for free, at least on the surface, leaving clients to give a final offer. It absolutely cannot defend a black market of culture: serious is not pointing the finger on the aspect of tax evasion, of the fiscal damage to the state due to the loss of taxes and social security contributions as well as on the abusive exercise of a profession that is condemned by the Penal Code (Article 348).” The tour guide, Persano concludes, not only illustrates Italy’s cultural heritage, but in accordance with the constitutional dictate defends and enhances it, which is why his work should be worthily remunerated according to Articles 35 and 36 of the Constitution: “The Republic protects work in all its forms and applications,” and “the worker has the right to remuneration proportionate to the quantity and quality of his work and in any case sufficient to ensure for himself and his family a free and dignified existence.”

Tour guides against Mi Manda Rai 3: "Damaged the image of our profession."

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