Italian tourism department to address bus and coach industry requests

Following the results of the first meeting of the all-Italian Round Table on the outstanding issue of coach tourism entry fees (“bus ticket”) in Italian cities, and the joint intervention of the European travel and coach travel industry, represented by the IRU, ECTAA and ETOA, on 10 May, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Italy has invited the competent Tourism Department to come up with its own observations to the proposals made by the organised coach tourism industry in Italy, which proposes to include a mandatory provision for municipalities to consider - at the moment of introducing the tourism tax - the results of the Round Table.

After an evaluation, to be conducted by the Italian Ministry of Tourism, a new Round Table meeting will be organised to try to find a solution to this pressing issue.

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