Rome: For the past two years, the Italian major tourism sector has become a different study: First of all tourists gathered from the most popular points in the country, then almost nothing at all.
Now, the pandemic sector is trying to achieve the right balance between the two extremes.
Before the Pandemic Coronavirus arrived in Italy early last year, great concerns about excessive tourism: the impact on infrastructure, environment, and the quality of life of residents of millions of tourists gathered in a handful of locations, such as Florence, Rome and Venice, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Then, with a pandemic, tourism was almost stopped in the midst of locking Coronavirus and restrictions on trips.
The tourism sector, which is responsible for attracting 236.4 billion euros ($ 280.6 billion) in expenditure in 2019 before the pandemic, produced only 115.8 billion euros last year, according to statista data companies.
According to most of the estimates, this sector is not expected to recover to the pre-pandemic level until the end of 2023 or early 2024.
But political leaders and many who work in this sector take current steps to ensure that as this sector avoids excessive crowding problems which marks the pre-pandemic period.
“The aim is to reform this sector so that it offers a higher and more personalized service level, and less centralized options than before,” Gianfranco Lorenzo, Head of the Research Department for the Florence Research Center (CST-Firenze), told Xinhua on Sunday.
“Italy must emphasize dependence on a large tour bus that all attract to the parking lot and flood small towns for several hours, (but promote) high-quality tourism that shows visitors to the wonders of the country outside a few dozen places that are known to all dozen about,” Lorenzo said , Valeria Minghetti, head of researchers at the center of international study on the tourism economy at Ca ‘Foscari University in Venice, said the problem of over-tourism was not unique to Italy.
He noted that popular tourist destinations in Europe such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, ​​and Paris had the same problem.
He said these cities must share information and best practices to help change the average tourist mentality.
“There is no reason why people have to march to see one famous site when there are many as important and equally impressive so that too few people know,” said Minghetti Xinhua.
These strategies have been developed.
This summer, many cities try to focus on visitors in outside tourist spots such as spacious gardens and architectural ruins, where visitors can be spread to maintain the risk of low coronavirus infection.
Before the pandemic, Italy attracted an average of almost 100 million tourists every year, according to calculations by the Italian government tourist council (ENIT).