Sorrento, the mayors of the Coast: "There is a boom but goodbye to livability"

Sorrento. Villas for rent at 50 thousand euros per week. A Capri It's normal, VIPs can pay, but a young couple from the island looking for a simple 70 square meter home can be asked for 1.800 to 2 euros a month.

Business is booming for homeowners in historic centers and tourist cities, but with skyrocketing prices and disastrous services, city governments no longer know how to ensure the liveability of residents. This is the unanimous complaint that the mayors of the Sorrento Coast and the islands of the Gulf of NAPLES have brought to the attention of the Minister for Tourism, Massimo Garavaglia.

Who has ensured attention to the problem and has not excluded, to promote livability, an "access by reservation" in particular moments. The first to make things clear was the mayor of Capri, Marino Lembo, denouncing the phenomenon of private individuals or organizations that manage up to 12 apartments, determining a form of widespread hotel that harms those who work respecting the laws.

Garavaglia's attention was drawn to the need to make the budget and the municipal staff "flexible" to guarantee services - waste collection three times a day, traffic regulation - for those municipalities that go from 7 inhabitants to 100 during the high season. The minister responded that he will study how to make tourism more widespread throughout Italy, so as not to burden the usual most requested centers with which one can also think of "access with reservation, in the most intense periods of tourism or only on weekends".

“Then we will see how to do it – he added -. You will also tell us”. The mayor of Vico Equense, Giuseppe Aiello, spoke about the serious traffic problem on the Sorrento Peninsula, who asked “through investments” that the bathing coastline be extended from Torre del Greco to Castellammare di Stabia, hoping for a greater distribution of demand along the entire coast.

For the Tourism Councilor of Sorrento, Alfonso Iaccarino, and for the Deputy Mayor of Piano di Sorrento, Salvatore Iaccarino, the solution is, instead, the “closed number”. All the mayors agree in criticizing the malfunctioning of the Circumvesuviana trains, defined as “national shame”. They also ask for interventions on the Citizenship Income that has made the workforce once available to be employed in the tourism and public services sector unusable.

Also speaking at the table with Minister Garavaglia was Delia Di Maio, national president of Fare, which brings together representatives of the so-called extra-hotel structures, which have been accused. Di Maio asked for greater dialogue with the institutions and the Government. Furthermore, the Sorrento entrepreneur Mario Colonna asked that any government interventions to relieve businesses from the burden of the energy bill, not come when tourism operators in the South will be in low season, so as to ensure support only for hoteliers in the North, making the measure coincide with the tourist season for the mountains.