By Caterina (ALIS), it is necessary to restart maritime transport to save the tourist season

Catherine and Casillo observed that, despite the measures to boost the national economy, Italy is experiencing significant slowdowns at this restart stage should be particularly relevant to the most important sectors of production covid-19 emergency, among which it falls without doubt the tourism industry that currently represents about the 14% of national GDP and which increases exponentially in some Regions, such as Sicily and Sardinia, having a significant impact on jobs and economic growth.

"We are chasing - noted Barbara Casillo - a crisis that goes much faster than the reaction times of the policy and if we want to give our industry a chance to start again, quick and immediate actions are needed to keep up market that is suffering from uncertainties due to different how to access and connect within the country and European states. Dissolving the mobility knot is why tourism doesn't move without the boost travellers' drive.'

"Today," di Caterina observed, "we can say that, emergency measures planned at the beginning and more structural measures included in the Revival Decree, tourism in our Country is slowly starting again. We are also aware that recovery will be slower than other sectors because the entire sector is going through a situation, with very high rates of reductions in related tasks. At the same time, however -- he pointed out the general manager of ALIS - we register with concern that any further extensions of suspensions post-June 2 june could have devastating effects on the resumption of the tourist season. Especially in some regions, Such as Sicily and Sardinia, with which ALIS attention to ensure that, with your associates, territorial continuity, you need to have answers clear, concrete and immediate for the reopening of security services transport for tourism.'

Caterina and Casillo then asked the government "to intervention in support of the entire tourism supply chain, and the transport in particular, to save the salvageable of the season summer to avert serious repercussions on the entire economy and to solicit island regions, especially those with poor epidemiological incidence to make uniform decisions for the whole tourism sector and related transport services. Hope - concluded by Di Caterina and Casillo - that this situation of uncertainty can be overcome in order to ensure a true restart of the country."