Over half a million passengers between the airports of Cagliari, Olbia and Alghero . For a full August holiday in Sardinia .
"It is difficult to find a room - confirms Carlo Amaduzzi , president of Assohotel Confesercenti - but also a place to eat: many restaurateurs, in order not to upset their customers, try to find alternative accommodation for them in some other restaurant belonging to a colleague. they say it could also be an excellent September ".
According to Confesercenti , tourism divided in half between Italians and foreigners . "The Europeans have chosen to stay in Europe and Sardinia, with Spain and Greece - explains Amaduzzi - are the most exotic destinations that, with the international crisis and the reduction of intercontinental flights, they wanted to choose".
The Russians are missing . There have never been very many. But they have always spent a lot. The pandemic first and the war in Ukraine then, with the sanctions imposed by the European Union on personalities linked to Putin, almost eliminated arrivals in 2022 , both in Costa Smeralda and in Sulcis. The few arrivals remain in their residences maintaining a low profile, no outings in the square in Porto Cervo or trips on their mega yachts.
IN THE AIRPORTS - In Cagliari until 21 August 200,000 passengers (arrivals + departures) are expected , with 1,350 movements planned and 240,945 seats for sale. In 2020 the passengers were 119,230, and in 2021, 169,920. It is therefore estimated that passengers in August will significantly approach the 2019 number, over 600,000.
Around 250,000 passengers are expected to arrive in Olbia until 22 August, with 130,000 arrivals and 1,800 commercial aviation flights alone.
CRUISES - Cagliari also invaded by the sea with cruise ships : on August 15th (but there is also an encore on the 22nd) the landing of the Costa Firenze, with a capacity of over five thousand passengers. And on the 18th there is the Marella Discovery, almost two thousand vacationers. Olbia responds with a poker: on Saturday Aida Stella, Ferragosto with Msc Orchestra, on the 18th with Valiant Lady and on the 19th with Silver dawn. Glory also for Porto Torres: Sunday with Mein Schiff and on 21st with Oceania.
At the base of the boom in tourist presences on the island, according to Cia Sardegna there are also two fundamental ingredients: the agritourism offer and the quality of the agri-food products of the island companies. "An excellent tourist offer cannot be separated from the offer of high quality agri-food products - underlines the regional director Alessandro Vacca - and in Sardinia this is possible thanks to the work and commitment of our farms and livestock farms, which again this year , despite the great difficulties deriving from the very high temperatures and the soaring production costs, they have managed to put on the market products with a high quality level, constantly improving ".
(Unioneonline / vl)
