Three weeks after the first meeting, the monitoring table on the new tourist tariffs linked to the Cinque Terre Express met again in Genoa.
The numbers highlight that compared to 2023 (from 18 March to 4 June) and 2022 (from 19 March to 4 June), there was an 8% reduction in tickets issued compared to 2023 but an increase of 13.6%. compared to 2022: confirming the growth trend of spring tourism. Regarding the number of ‘5 Terre Cards’ issued in 2024, a reduction of 7% was recorded compared to 2023 but an increase of 84.8% compared to 2022. There was an increase in multi-day cards issued on 25 April 2024 compared to 25 April 2023: +39% for the two-day adult pass and +47% for the three-day pass. Confcommercio Spezia carried forward its beliefs already expressed in previous meetings, with the president of Confcommercio Cinque Terre Gianni Bellingeri and the union area representative Lorenzo Servadei. “It is too early to have an assessment of the effects of the tariff increase, but the significant reductions in the sale of travel tickets seem to confirm our fears: the tariff increase will not serve to decongest the territory or regulate tourist flows, we record an unchanged presence of groups of tourists disembarking from cruise ships or arriving by coach, a hit-and-run tourism that gives nothing back to the territory. What is decreasing are the local tourists, who live in neighboring regions and come to the Cinque Terre for a trip out of town”
