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Ski season can be restarted, but only with one maximum daily ski pass sales limit. This is the idea of the Regions, which will propose to the government a soft restart that requires a strong control of the presence on the track and especially on the lifts. Hence, limiting overcrowding and maintaining safety distances that limit Covid-19 infections, the idea of also limiting the sale of daily passes. The number of ski passes that can be sold varies from season to season, due to the speed, type and number of lifts present.
As a preliminary measure, it is necessary to limit the maximum number of daily income by entering a maximum number of daily skipases salable, determined according to the characteristics of the ski resort / area / area, with homogeneous criteria by Region or Autonomous Province or ski area to be defined later, after consulting the category representatives, agreed with the Prevention Departments of the competent Local Health Authorities in the territory. This is the idea contained in the draft of the document of Proposal of guidelines for the use of ski lifts in ski resorts and areas by amateur skiers, which will be taken to the Conference of the Regions next Monday to be presented to the government and the Cts.
The figures of the sector: -70% of turnover
Meanwhile, the sector associations presented the figures and forecasts of the ski sector, greatly reduced by the pandemic. The world that revolves around winter tourism runs the risk of losing 70% of its turnover, or an irrecoverable loss of almost 8,500 million euros.
The world of skiing and mountains finds its reason for being in investments, technologies, hospitality and that this year, however, it causes a Covid pandemic, clinging tightly to dates, the colors of the regions and a possible restart. A piece of the economy that throughout the entire Alpine arc has an economic weight between 10 and 12 billion euros between direct, induced and supply chain and that d I work for about 120 thousand people. But this year, uncertainty is the real engine of concern among insiders. The operators of the mountain sector see the start of the season advancing day after day.