“Sometimes it becomes necessary to forego organizing conferences due to a lack of facilities, meeting rooms, and hotels. Italy has over 1 million rooms, yet they are predominantly located in well-known tourist destinations like Venice, Florence, Milan, and Rome.”, the minister continued.
“Conferences could provide a significant opportunity for expansion into beautiful inland locations, but this requires the availability of additional facilities to host and accommodate them. Therefore, the focus must be on providing resources to create new venues equipped to hold conferences, which should feature large spaces and high quality. After all – said Santanchè – if we are able to elevate the standard of services, we will be ready to offer services of the highest quality, benefiting the conference tourism sector and the industry as a whole. The government is also working on this front. At the informal meeting of tourism ministers in Warsaw yesterday – Santanchè finally announced – I requested from the European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, Tzitzikostas, during our bilateral meeting, a specific budget for the sector and that all member states have a dedicated Ministry of Tourism.”
