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of understanding WINE TOURISM
a foreign country is to smell it. IN ARGENTINA
Rudyard Kipling by Cristina Pandolfi

aromas, music and Ligurian hospitality. Not to
forget the famous sweet Cinque Terre wines to
accompany your desert, the rare Sciacchetrà
passito produced from grapes left to dry in na-
turally ventilated rooms. The wine tourism sector in Argentina was
I expect the customer will be more and more severely affected by the prolonged quaranti-
interested in organic products of which certain ne. They had to change the modalities used up
traceability must be guaranteed. The actions to that moment (especially offers of activities),
carried out on a local basis in favour of the and generate new protocols for the hospitality
short supply chain, the accessibility of quality sector in the wineries.
products at the right price and everything that The province of Mendoza was the first in the
can guarantee the health of the consumer will country to once again allow wine tourism, inc-
be increasingly interesting. Attention to the reasing the prevention protocols for COVID-19,
safety and hygiene of food, accommodation initially at the local level, then at the provincial
and travel will remain a legacy of the current level, and currently opening to tourists from
pandemic. other provinces. Still awaiting authorization
I was talking about my beloved Liguria, whe- is tourism from abroad, which will provide for
re I know it best. But this is true of many his- the full recovery to the flourishing activity that
toric cities, at least around the Mediterranean the industry had developed pre-pandemic.
Sea. At the moment it is summer, in an epide-
miological pause, and planning to vaccinate
the population. There remains the uncertain-
ty of what will happen with the arrival of cold
weather and with it, the possibility of a second
wave of infections. In any case, the sector and
the population are better trained and prepa-
red to face the situation if this occurs.
Officials in Argentina have extended the on-
going closure of the nation‘s borders, as well
as the existing social, preventive, and compul-
sory distancing (DISPO) phase of reopening.
The measures are part of the nation‘s continu-
ed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response.
Additional measures are being enforced
in the city of Buenos Aires. Commercial esta-
blishments may operate at 50% capacity,
while restaurants and other food-serving esta-
blishments may operate at 30% capacity. Pu-
blic transport is reserved for essential workers
and people attending medical treatment. ƅ

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