Tourism and Covid, alarm from Rome: risk of 8 thousand layoffs
“Rome you can’t afford 8000 layoffs. These are the numbers that the capital is likely to encounter, according to estimates by thebilateral tourism body for the next few months, in the face of the severe crisis underway. In the capital, the tourism sector is in full emergency. Some of the largest hotels have opened collective dismissal procedures and dozens of others of medium and small size are already moving in the same direction: the risk of collective or individual layoffs of staff is becoming concrete and very worrying “, he explains. Claudia Pratelli, councilor for the School, Work and Training of Rome capital city, after the words of Alessandro Onorato.
Covid Rome, the tourism councilor: “City in emergency”
“Tourism to Rome it is an emergency, immediately an extraordinary municipal council with the ministers of tourism and work. ” Alessandro Onorato, councilor for tourism, for major events in Rome. “Rome among the cities of art is the one that pays the highest price – he continues – after the layoffs of all the staff of the Sheraton hotel, of the Majestic, 210 people, the next will be theCicerone hotel, but the risk is that soon there will be a further negative escalation “. The commissioner stresses that” three hundred and fifty are the Roman hotels closed temporarily since March 2020, some risk not reopening and thousands of workers could permanently lose their jobs. The closure of the Phys at 31 December 2021 for the sector it is giving the coup de grace. But the bill is even more salty – he continues – if we consider tourist guides, tour operators, large event companies, catering, tourism services, taxis, NCCs, cleaning, laundry and maintenance companies. . The list of companies on the verge of closure is dramatically long. The Roman economic fabric risks not overcoming the pandemic. There is a need for an extraordinary intervention of the Draghi government. We appeal to the sensitivity of the premier and ask for the convocation of an extraordinary municipal council in the presence of the tourism minister Garavaglia and that of Orlando work“. Onorato sums up:” Rome alone cannot make it, the Municipality cannot cope with a crisis of this magnitude. At stake are companies that have made the history of the Italian capital and the destiny of thousands of families “.
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