Fiba Puglia, Puglia Region does not protect bathing establishments

“The beach establishments in Campania will be classified with stars based on the services offered. Just like it is done for hotels. This is foreseen by the Puad, the Plan for the use of maritime state property areas for tourism/accommodation purposes. A classification that beach resorts have been asking the Puglia Region for years.” This was stated by Fabrizio Santorsola, president of Fiba, Italian seaside federation, Confesercenti Puglia who expresses “his disappointment towards a regional administration that too often acts only on the surface rather than taking concrete action”. “In 2018 – he explains – a law was passed, with the unanimous consent of the entire Regional Council, which classified the beaches with stars in the same way as hotels, classifying the structures based on the services provided. It was the right response to the media campaign which systematically saw negative comments on the web relating to the excessively high prices applied in Puglia. The law was blocked with a stratagem wanted by those who would have seen their structures declassified without indispensable services for tourists: in the last council session of the last legislature, the same councilors who had acclaimed it absentmindedly voted for the modification that paralyzed it ”. “Now – he concludes – we discover, but I already knew well in advance, that the Campania Region has copied our system and applied it by regional law: from next year the Campania beaches will have the classification based on the services provided to customers with all due respect to us Apulian seaside resorts who stand by and watch.”