2024-07-15 17:18:09
MERANO. Due to the weather, this is not an easy season for the Lido di Merano, which this year has also been able to offer the population the brand new green area, recently renovated and fully functional after a delay in the delivery of the works, completed beyond all expectations by the contractor who at first had made the municipal administration fear the worst.
In any case, it’s been a difficult year. 2024 for the Lido’s accounts, especially because of the unstable weather, with gloomy, if not rainy, days, exactly as is happening in this first part of July.
Uncertainty of the weather which, experts explain, is more anomalous than ever compared to the past, but which we will perhaps have to get used to. In fact, we are not talking so much about completely rainy days for their entire duration, which in some cases require the closure of the Lido, but rather days characterized by sudden precipitation that induce many lovers of the Lido to desist, even when the sun comes out for a few hours.
Some regular users of the Lido explain it, one of whom says: “For those who have season tickets, going to the Lido when the weather is uncertain is not a problem, but what I notice is the fact that many people do not show up on days with unstable weather because they do not want to risk having to leave as soon as they enter due to sudden rain showers”.
In this perspective, the possibility of purchasing tickets by time slots, as permitted by the Lido price list, represents a godsend for users. In fact, in addition to the classic daily ticket, it is possible to purchase tickets by time slots – 12-15, 16-19, 19-23.
Meranarenathe management company, explains the situation as follows: “This summer we had too many days of bad weather, both in May and June. Only now in July are we recovering, for example on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th we exceeded 1,000 daily entries”, the words of Luca Bordato and Sandra Zambiancorespectively president and director of Meranarena.
Going into more detail with the numbers, in May 2024, the entries were 1624 against the 2971 of 2023. Instead, there are a total of 15,056 entries in the month of June, against the 22,940 of last year, which means a decrease of almost 8000 tickets sold.
In economic terms, to date –39,441 euros of revenue for the management company.
“We hope to recover the admissions in the fifteen extra days of opening planned for next September. In fact, this year we are keeping the lido open for two more weeks – these are years of good weather in that period”, announce Bordato and Zambianco.
2024-07-15 17:18:09