“A difficult start to the season due to the continuous bad weather which has affected and continues to affect the normal influx of customers from lower Piedmont, Lombardy and abroad. We have significantly lower numbers than last year and in addition to adverse weather conditions, the state of the motorways and railway lines also has an impact.”
The comment at the end of June Enrico Calvi, provincial president of Fipe, the Italian federation of public merchants.
Calvi attributes the ‘guilt’ also to inflation “which has skyrocketed and therefore – he adds – inevitably the pockets are emptier. However, the balance sheets are based on firm bowls and – he continues – we need to understand, at the end of the season, whether we have managed to extend the seasonalityas we hope at least in the month of October, beginning of November. No less important is understanding whether we will succeed to catch up on July and August.”
President Fipe makes a precise analysis of the clientele of the far western Liguria, diversifying tourism according to the chosen location. “Ventimiglia and Sanremo, for example, can count on French tourism, the Imperia has always had a large Lombard and Piedmontese component and finally the dianese with his hard core of customers built up over the years. Let’s remember that Diano Marina, in the Queen’s seat, has the most important numbers in the Liguria Region.”
