The guidelines for the restart of conferences and corporate events generate confusion and pending clarification, the sector raises the alarm
The “Guidelines for the reopening of economic and social activities” implemented by Minister Speranza and in the process of being published provide that the maximum capacity of participants in congresses and corporate events is from time to time established after a comparison between the organizer with the Local Health Authorities.
This is an indication that risks paralyzing the sector of congresses, conferences and corporate events, that is, the sector that more than any other has been hit by the limitations due to the pandemic.
The guidelines finally remove the spacing of one meter between the participants, thus acknowledging the demands of the meeting industry which, for months now, had been asking that conference centers, hotel meeting rooms and event locations be assimilated to cinemas and theaters. But the end of the distancing is accompanied by an indication that generates chaos.
Meeting rooms, conference centers and all spaces for events have a maximum capacity already defined according to the regulations. Reviewing it every time, and for every single event, is materially impossible, as the exponents of #Italialive, the aggregation of industry associations.
“What should we do? Contact us at which office of the Local Health Authorities before each event? We know well how slow the Italian bureaucracy is due to structural limitations, but those who organize it need to know from the planning stage of the event how many people will be able to participate “, comments Salvatore Sagone, President of the Club of Events and Live Communication and spokesperson for #Italialive media relations
“We have clamored for the end of the distancing but now that we have obtained it, a confusing scenario opens up which generates organizational difficulties. We cannot afford to work without knowing the maximum capacity of our spaces in a manner defined by clear, objective and predetermined parameters “, highlights Alessandra Albarelli, president of Federcongressi & eventi and spokesperson for institutional and political relations of #Italialive.
“We have been in dialogue with institutions for over a year but every decision that must find an operational declination is never simple and straightforward, but confusing and unworkable in practice “.
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