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Among the conditions to access the contribution is that the payment of the hotel, farm or bed & breakfast is made “without the intermediation of subjects that manage telematic platforms or portals”. Consumer associations and big portals like Booking.com and Airbnb protest.
by Andrea Gagliardi
Among the conditions to access the contribution is that the payment of the hotel, farm or bed & breakfast is made “without the intermediation of subjects that manage telematic platforms or portals”. Consumer associations and big portals like Booking.com and Airbnb protest.
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The holiday voucher has just been launched and is already under discussion. We are talking about the contribution of up to 500 euros for the expenses incurred for national stays in hotels, campsites, towns, bed & breakfasts. A contribution that can be accessed by families with an ISEE income of up to 40 thousand euros, modulated according to the size of the family unit: 500 euros for families of 3 or more subjects, 300 for families of two and 150 for mononuclear families. The contribution can be spent from July 1 to December 31, 2020. 80% will be a discount on the rate due to the structure, the remaining 20% will be an income tax deduction. And there are already those, like Salvini, claiming the complaints of the annoying hoteliers about the fact that most of the bonus will be anticipated by them (in fact, the discount is later reimbursed by the State in the form of a tax credit).
No to payments with digital platforms
Not only. Among the conditions to access the credit is that the payment for the service provided by the hotel, country house or individual bed & breakfast must be paid “without the help, intervention or intermediation of the subjects who operate different platforms or telematic portals by agencies travel and tour operators. “
Booking.com: No Holiday Bonus Discrimination
The reaction of the main online portals to book hotels and holiday homes was immediate. In the relaunch dl there are “significant and positive interventions for tourism, first of all the holiday voucher, but we regret to take into account that people who book and pay immediately on online portals are discriminated against”. So booking.com’s country manager for Italy, Alberto Yates, at a hearing in the Senate Industry Committee.
Airbnb: not excluding vacation bonus platforms
The family holiday tax credit «seems to exclude the use of digital platforms for payment and, therefore, to benefit from this measure. We express our dissent in this regard », he relaunched the country manager of Airbnb, Italy and Southeast Europe, Giacomo Found, always in the audience in the Senate Industry Committee. “We hope that the exclusion of platforms from the measure can be removed.” In addition, he added, “distributing vacation coupons to families to be used in all tourist accommodation and accommodations would be a simpler measure.”
Codacons: error in excluding vacation bonus platforms
Codacons also takes the field against the measure. “The vacation voucher included in the relaunch decree should apply to all tourist structures regardless of the booking method and, therefore, should also be extended to digital platforms,” says the consumer association, which notes in a note “how the use of the web for hotel reservations. ”For Codacons, therefore,“ excluding the digital platforms specialized in ‘booking’ from the holiday voucher is equivalent to harming consumers ”.
