Hotels and restaurants are driving the recovery: the South beat the North – The Republic

Milan – Italy tries to leave the crisis behind investing in tourism: in the second quarter of 2015, in fact, returned to increase business active in the field. According to figures from the Observatory Confesercenti between between April and June, hotels, bars and restaurants recorded a positive balance of 8,199 units (+ 2%) compared to the same period last year. Surprisingly grows the south of the north. “After the contractions recorded in recent years, finally the receptivity and the administration try to start again,” says Esmeralda Giampaoli, President of Fiepet, the trade association Confesercenti of outlets.

Among the sectors, the fastest growing It is catering (+ 3%) with increases in all regions of Italy. Great entrepreneurial dynamism even in tourist accommodation, which is an increase of 1,333 (+ 2.7%) including hotels, guest houses and hotels with Puglia that pulls the group (+ 9.8%) followed by Lazio (+ 6.7% ) and Sicily (+5.8%).

Less brilliant, but still in positive territory, the performance bar. The number of enterprises in the sector is stable: it grows by 0.7%, for a total of 1,467 activities in more, signal the persistent difficulties in the sector, related to the increase of tax on real estate enterprise and tariffs for waste disposal. Again pulling the South and the islands, for which the growth in the number of bars is revved to + 1.9%, nine times that of the center-north (+ 0.2%) and almost three times the national average (+0.7%).

“Hotels, restaurants and bars are always – adds Giampaoli – by tradition, culture, ability to attract a fundamental pillar of our economy and especially tourism. Unfortunately, crisis impacted severely on accommodation: from 2010 to the present consumption was reduced by 8.5% and 7.9% in bars in restaurants. They are collapsed even breakfast (-3.3%) and consumption of the lunch break : turnover fell to 15.1 billion euro a year (-18%) with a decline in estimated spending an average of 13% “.

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