Rome (CNN) — For all too brief a time, the Italian summer offered a glimmer of hope. But as the sun begins to cool, so do hopes of a full recovery for Italy's decimated 2020 tourism season. "Tourists are what we need to keep going," says Cassandra Santoro CEO and founder of travel planning service, Travel Italian Style . Business owners now feel that government talk of the Italian summer as a domestic boost to tourism was just rhetoric. Fabrizio Villa/Getty ImagesCassandra Santoro of Travel Italian Style says at least 85% of her clients are American.

Source: CNN September 12, 2020 08:03 UTC