Tourism Reform: Frost at Palazzo Chigi of the Santanchè Declaration. The mapping of bathing establishments begins with the same text as Draghi

Rosaria Amato

Rome – The arrival of Siconbep, the new digital mapping system for public property concessions, including beaches. The legislative decree received the green light from the Council of Ministers yesterday, after a very long process that started with one of the last CDM mechanisms of the Draghi government, on September 16 last year.

Operation Transparency, linked to the mapping of beaches launched at MIT and which, according to Coastal Resorts, should prove that Italian beaches are not a scarce commodity. What is certain is that we will have to wait a long time before we find out. The legislative decree (implementation of Article 2 of the Competition Law 2022) after the first green light needed many positive opinions, which arrived in the following months, the last of which was the Unified Conference, on November 30. The deadline for the ruling to take effect was February, but Milbrugge pushed it back to 27 July. The results of mapping MIT’s beaches are still pending.

Penelope’s board of adjournments and delays which at the present time the Parliamentary Opposition is beset with, seems to have only one aim: to advance the moment when the present concessions will be tendered and reset as Brussels has asked us to. For some time. In fact, Milleproroghe itself has postponed the validity of existing beach concessions until December 31, 2024, and in case of difficulties on the part of the municipalities, until December 31, 2025. And while bids should be submitted immediately, Benedetto della Vidova, vice president of Più Europa, objected: “Milleproroghe can draw coastal concessions , perhaps to identify new areas for allotment, but this activity has nothing to do with the due tender of the existing concessions, for which a small fee is paid to the state. The fear of environmentalists is that mapping already serves, in addition to leaving existing concessions to those who own them, to “pin the last of the free beaches”, denounced Europa Verde spokesman Angelo Bonelli, pointing out that the system of mapping of concession beaches already exists, which is Sid. Therefore, Siconbep would be a “useless redundancy”, or even worse, a ploy to justify further appointments.

Government sources explain that the sector’s databases will remain operational and their interoperability with Siconbep will be guaranteed, which will have a broader scope, since it has to accept “all information relating to all state property liens or belonging to unavailable assets”. Even beach resorts, among their databases and referrals, are showing signs of impatience, so much so that at a recent meeting of the table at MIT they presented their documents to prove that the beach resource is “not only scarce, but also abundant.”

The Clean Development Mechanism also launched a package of measures that Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanche defined as an “industrial revolution in tourism”, which includes the reform of tour guides “expected for ten years”. The announcement that seems to have caught the government, and in particular Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, by surprise, especially because Santanche speaks of a plan that “will be implemented in close relationship with the provinces”. A long horizon that the minister set for herself, at least in the communication strategy.