Ski resorts report good Epiphany business, art cities KO

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 5 - Italy's ski resorts are reporting solid bookings over the January 6 Epiphany holiday but art cities are at an all-time low, hotel group Federalberghi said Wednesday.
    Foreign tourism is "virtually absent" amid the Omicron variant spike of the COVID-19 emergency.
    As well as Omicron, Federalberghi reports a "growing economic crisis" in the sector.
    Mountain resorts, it said, "are resisting as far as January 9, after the Epiphany long weekend, with occupancy rates at 60% on average" but many facilities at the seaside and lakes, which are usually kept open after the Christmas and New Year holidays, have been closed after New Year's Eve or have not opened at all.
    (ANSA).