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Ski resorts are currently closed in much of Europe, including Italy, Austria, Slovenia, France and Germany. the question now is whether to reopen them for the festive period.
If the tracks remain closed, it should apply to all of Europe, he said. Luca zaia, leader of the Veneto region in Italy, you may not be prohibited from skiing in South Tyrol, but if you are in Carinthia, Austria, that would be an unacceptable joke.
Giuseppe Conte The Italian prime minister said on Monday night that there would be no ski season in Italy during the Christmas period because that would put him at risk of a third wave of the coronavirus epidemic. At the same time, he urged European coordination on the matter with which Markus Söder the Bavarian provincial prime minister also agreed.
However, according to the Austrian Finance Ministry, keeping the ski areas closed for the three weeks of Christmas would mean a loss of 2.4 billion euros (more than 865 billion guilders) for the country. “If the EU really wants that, it has to pay for it,” he said. Gernot Blümel Austrian Finance Minister, calling on the EU to make up 80 percent of lost revenue, in line with the Austrian government’s support program for companies forced to close due to the epidemic.
It is memorable that during the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic, in early 2020, ski resorts in Austria and other parts of the Alps became hotspots.
In addition to Veneto, other regions of northern Italy, including Liguria, propose to celebrate the 2020-2021 winter season with the adoption of special measures against the epidemic. According to this, the ski lifts would operate at only 50 percent of their capacity and would set a daily limit for ski passes. Keeping ski resorts closed would put 120,000 jobs at risk.
However, the Italian government is reluctant to ease restrictions after the number of coronavirus infections dropped sharply again. In Italy, the number of people killed by the coronavirus infection surpassed 50,000 on Monday and 853 more deaths were reported on Tuesday, the third highest since the outbreak began.
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