G20 Turismo, Draghi: "It's time to book your holidays in Italy, we are ready to welcome you"

• G20: over 60 million tourism jobs lost.

  Very uncertain prospects

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04 May 2021 "The time has come to

and of course we can't wait to welcome you again". Thus premier Mario Draghi at the end of the G20 ministerial meeting on tourism. "If there is a country intertwined with tourism, which thrives on tourism, it is ours. The whole world wants to come to Italy, the pandemic has forced us to close temporarily but we are once again ready to host the world", he remarked. "The G20 and the directives for the future of tourism are a basis for a recovery in tourism on a global level", explained the premier. Tourism "will play an essential role in the economic recovery" of the country, said the premier.

 "The government intends to offer - I don't like support - help to the tourism industry, which has had so much damage from this prolonged closure", said the prime minister. The tourism sector, Draghi underlined, "is a prominent figure in the NRP".

"We must provide simple and clear rules" to allow tourists to return safely, "around the second half of June the

will be fully operational within the EU", said Draghi. "While we are waiting for the European certificate, the Italian government has introduced a '

' to allow people to move around the country from the second half of May", he added.

"Today's conclusions - observed Draghi - are to be welcomed with great favor. The guidelines of the G20 in Rome for the future of tourism offer a clear strategy for the recovery of tourism all over the world. They underline the essential role that tourism will take place in the recovery but also affirm the need to make tourism more inclusive, sustainable, which protects the environment and involves local communities. I am grateful to all the participants and to Minister Garavaglia for the important and fruitful contribution ".

"The economy after the pandemic will be different but I have no doubts that tourism will recover and be stronger than before, even better", Mario Draghi said in a press conference at the end of the G20 ministerial meeting on tourism. "In the meantime, we continue to provide concrete economic support to the sector and with the NRP we work for the future" ..