The geopolitical instability on the side south of the Mediterranean is having a strong impact on tourism and the cruises



The emphasized geopolitical instability that characterizes the Countries of the Africa North, the Middle East and Turkey risks to produce to a strong impact negative on the field of tourism and the cruises. It has evidenced Giorgia Bucchioni, president of cultural and operating Vision Blue, hub for recently constituted the Economy Blue to ( on 20 April 2016), explaining that they are from the 15 to 18 million tourists on the run from the Mediterranean and that "for these tourists is urgent to construct, especially along the Italian coasts, an offer alternative to that of the countries of the Africa North and the Middle East to the taken ones with a geopolitical instability that difficultly will be of short term".

"The data - it has observed Giorgia Bucchioni - speak clear: the Mediterranean is from the point of view of the tourist offer, and this regards also the large cruises and the nautical one from diporto, "a halved" sea, a lame market and dangerously exposed also from the media point of view the negative fallen back ones world-wise that the situation of insecurity of the entire side south, the risk terrorism and the factor immigration is generating".

For example, second a first Blue analysis that Vision has started candidating itself also on an observatory role on routes, crisis and opportunity, Egypt is in the facts disappeared from the tourist market: based on the last relative official data to the first trimester the number of the visitors had been halved from 2,2 little more than million for the period January-March, but the last tragedy of the areo Egypt Air has lengthened new shadows and fears on the country and the number of tourists altogether would be collassato of beyond 90%. This means nine million western tourists "in looks for of author" and many more if the market is taken to reference Egyptian, Arabic pre-spring of 2011, with a volume in constant increase towards 15 million the tourists.

Moreover Turkey admits in these days a decrease between the 16 and 20%, but second the greater German and English tours operators collapse of tourism in Turkey because of the five attacks to Istanbul, Ankara and Boursa, would be advanced to 40%. A figure on which hung also the disappearance of Russian tourism. Difficult to the current state a precise quantification, but is spoken from the four five to the million tourists who already have deserted or are ready to desert Turkey as goal of their vacations.

Heavy also the budget of Tunisia after the attack to the museum of the Bard and those in the tourist-hotel centers of the coast. According to the last unofficial data in 2015 Tunisia it would have lost 57% of its international visitors, throwing down to quota 1,2 million tourists.

Morocco, than until today has rectum, is beginning to show the first signs of bending.

Vision blue has found that also in the field of the cruises, the Mediterranean (with a quota 20% of world-wide the crocieristico market) has become special observing. With more of the half of the destinations off limits and with a heavy psychological bounce of the crisis migrants, the Mediterranean cruises begin in fact to lose blows on the market American. Many tourists have riposizionati themselves on cruises in Europe North.

"A situation of this type - Giorgia Bucchioni has sottolineto - cannot be endured passively. The risk is that of a negative drift destined sooner or later to invest also the tourist markets of the side north of the western Mediterranean. He is indispensable, and own for these Vision Blue is engaging in setting up also of an observatory project on the routes, that it becomes element of service for international tours operators and cruise operators; the objective is not sure that to replace itself to the operators who know the market to the perfection, but that to collaborate to the definition of a strategy of innovative offer that allows to withhold in the Mediterranean a quota consisting of tourist flows otherwise destined to feed broken new, as that of the Caribbean or the Far East. To our opinion it goes fastly thought also, always in tightened coordination with the operators and with a service mission, a new modality of I confront with the international market to which to today propose a produced Italy more and more diversified to the aim to intercept tourists otherwise destined to abandon the Mediterranean".