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On the snow in the yellow and orange areas wearing the mandatory surgical mask – better to keep it under the neck warmer – but with a 50% reduction in attendance in cable cars and gondolas compared to the maximum capacity, which is still 100% for chair lifts. But also the maximum limit of daily passes, online purchase of tickets to avoid queues and après ski allowed only with seats.
Closed lifts in the red zones, however, for amateur skiers. The rules on the anti-Covid white week are on the way, expected by many Italians, provided for by the “guidelines of the regions for the use of ski lifts in ski resorts and areas”: the document, of which there is currently only one The draft will be taken to the Conference of the Regions next Monday to be delivered to the Government and the CTS.
Therefore, the new provisions could be foreseen soon and at this time, with the current ordinances of the Ministry of Health in force in the different regions, snow holidays would be prohibited in several alpine ranges. It is for this reason that the peaks of Veneto, Friuli and Trentino, if the territories were not subject to additional restrictions, could be raided by vacationers.
Everywhere, “an interpersonal distancing of one meter must be guaranteed in all phases that precede the transport” of tourists and “distancing also applies to family units, cohabitants and relatives, with the exception of those that require accompaniment (such as children less than one meter and 25 centimeters tall, in the case of chair lifts) or assistance (for example, the blind).
Strict measures to be respected also for ski lift operators, who “must guarantee the organization and management of flows and queues, the application of measures to maintain interpersonal distancing”, even with posters indicating the rules for limiting the risk of contagion.
The supervision of compliance with the distancing measures must be guaranteed “by the Public Security authorities in conjunction with the local authorities, also with the collaboration of the Department of Civil Protection, the Firefighters, the Forestry Corps and the Alpine Rescue”.
The apresqui, and therefore the entertainment off the slopes with aperitifs and snacks, is “only allowed with seats that meet the standards already defined in the protocols of restoration and public establishments.” The document “suggests providing downstream information systems that inform tourists that reception in high altitude structures may not be assured where the maximum capacity of the premises has been reached” and “integrated solutions will be studied with plant managers. which should regulate the flows and lighten them in case of bad weather ”.
For the descent to the valley “in case of exceptional atmospheric events (such as electrical storms) and to avoid concentrations in the mountain stations”, the use of fully loaded vehicles is allowed “only” for the time strictly necessary “, always with” the use of the surgical mask, also possibly used appropriately by inserting it into instruments (such as a neck warming band) that facilitate its usability ”.
The purchase of ski passes will not be unlimited: it will be necessary to “limit the maximum number of daily tickets by introducing a maximum number of salable daily passes, determined according to the characteristics of the ski resort / area / area, with homogeneous criteria for each Region” . o Autonomous Province or ski area to be defined later, after consulting the representatives of the category, agreed with the Prevention Directorates of the competent Local Health Authorities in the area ”.
When buying the ticket, the user explains the guidelines, he must “be responsible and informed (with the help of the information material published or available on the site, if the purchase is made online) about the state of his own health and that of their partners or relatives (understood as people with whom they share confined spaces such as means of transport, hotel rooms, housing units, etc.), otherwise agreeing not to use the ski lifts and reporting according to the procedures, the appearance of any symptom ».
