Marini: “Tourist office, too many shadows”

Giulio Marini wants to see clearly about the entrustment of the tourist office to the Pistoia company “Luoghi del Medioevo”. The former mayor asks some questions to the tourism councilor, Silvio Franco. The first: “Why was this one in Pistoia chosen among the countless travel agencies existing in Italy? Why not one from Viterbo, Tarquinia or Rome?”.

Marini: “Tourist office, too many shadows”

The city councilor wants to know what specific characteristics this company has to have been identified by the Municipality as the manager of the tourist office, which will no longer be entrusted to Promotuscia. While waiting to hear the answer, Marini wants to shed light on the process followed. The point, in his opinion, is procedural. The crux would be the intention of the Frontini administration to move its location to 2024, as reported in the strategic objective of the Dup, the single programming document, on improving the quality of the tourist offer.

Councilor Marini presses Councilor Franco on the assignment of the service to a travel agency in Pistoia

In particular, the more detailed operational objective relating to the “redevelopment and improvement of the level of services for tourists and use/promotion of the Via Francigena also in view of the 2025 Jubilee”. Which, in relation to the location of the tourist office, defined as “not optimal compared to the current flows and those that will occur as a result of the revision of the parking plan”, envisages during 2024 “a new headquarters more central to the monumental center at commercial area and the future covered market”. And here Marini comes in: “They made all these extensions in Promotuscia, rather than the announcement – ​​he says – because the offices were evidently waiting for indications from politics to identify the new headquarters of the tourist office. However, indications did not arrive. Not yet, at least.”

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Marini raises another question: “Knowing that there would be a wait for the new location of the tourist office, why, when they made the temporary assignment to Promotuscia through Mepa (electronic market of public administration), instead of establishing a short duration from February 8 to June 7, 2024, did they not extend it for the period necessary to move the office and then proceed to call for tenders?”. Finally, Marini raises another question: “On May 17, the Municipality wrote to the Luoghi del Medioevo company to request a quote. And it is not clear why a new manager was not sought through Mepa this time too.

Tiziana Mancinelli

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