Time.news – The reopening of bars and restaurants for table service concerns only a little more than 1 out of 2 premises that can count on outdoor spaces but the percentage rises to 100% in the case of farmhouses that have large areas available. This is what emerges from Coldiretti’s analysis on the effects of the new rules for the openings that start on April 26th.
Allowing the reopening of restaurants for lunch and dinner for those with outdoor space, however, makes it possible to recover on average about 15% of the total turnover of the 360 thousand catering services present in Italy with the outdoor seats of the restaurateurs who are, in fact, many cheaper than indoor ones.
The greatest difficulties are recorded in urban centers squeezed between traffic and asphalt while in the countryside we are organizing to offer guests the opportunity to dine under the olive groves in the midst of the vineyards that are budding or in the garden with the possibility of picking the vegetables directly.
The possibility of reopening the catering activities by exploiting the outdoor spaces – specifies Coldiretti – saves the 24 thousand Italian farmhouses that can count on large outdoor areas to ensure the necessary spacing at the table. A measure expected after the intermittent closures since the beginning of the pandemic have cut the income of operators with estimated losses in turnover for Coldiretti at 1.2 billion euros.
Moreover, the agritourisms, often located in isolated areas in family structures with a limited number of beds and at the table and with large open spaces, are perhaps the safest places where it is easier to ensure compliance with safety measures to defend against contagion outside the home.
“The agritourism plays a central role for the post covid Made in Italy holiday because it makes a decisive contribution to local tourism in the Italian countryside to ensure respect for social distances and avoid crowding”. Diego Scaramuzza, president of Terranostra emphasizes in specifying that “in the Italian countryside distances are measured in hectares and not in meters”.
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