“The city is a work in progress, we cannot present it like this to visitors.” The president of the Consortium Hotels, Luciano Cecchini, is worried about how Fano will welcome tourists in view of the key moment, the official start of the season. “On May 16th – recalls Cecchini – the Giro d’Italia will stop in our city and the construction site in the area of the Rastat amphitheater will not be a pretty sight, even if covered by signage”. “Perhaps when planning the works – Cecchini points out – a different criterion should have been followed: not ‘overturning’ the entire city, but planning one construction site at a time”. Cecchini interprets the thoughts of the operators for whom an upside-down city is not the best way to welcome tourists, already kept away by bad weather for the long weekend of April 25th. “The bad weather has penalized us, also because the weather forecast has been talking about cold and falling temperatures for 10 days. And things risk not being better by May 1st. The hotels are almost all open, but the people don’t move. And having a ruined seafront doesn’t help anyway.”
“And fortunately – adds Cecchini – that in May we can count on sports tourism: the Colle Mar-thon, which is now a certainty, but also rowing (the arrival of 400 athletes is expected, from Italy and abroad ed.) , and sailing regattas are important sporting events that give oxygen to our activities. Also scheduled are volleyball tournaments, parachutists in July and a bowls tournament for disabled people in October.
“In addition to sport, we operators – concludes Cecchini – must be united in offering tourists the sea and the beautiful inland villages, putting together all the food and wine specialties that we are rich in”.
