President of Lombardy Attilio Fontana said it was “a last-minute decision that deals a further serious blow to a sector that was painfully restarting.”
“Once again, it shows that the system of 'week by week' decisions is devastating for both operators and citizens,” he said.
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Slopes in the USA have been open since early December and there are no hotspots as a result.
How absolutely awful to cancel the opening of the ski lifts just hours before they were told they could. Not a good start with PM Draghi, that’s for sure.
I really feel for the work these ski areas and all the other people that live of the tourists coming have put, to be told last minute they cannot open…
A very good decision by the new government.