“Hotel rooms were sold for a thousand euros. It’s a shame, we’ll leave in the evening”

“Speculation over hotel price during Harry Styles concert. That’s a shame! We won’t be coming.” This is the protest that reaches us via email from Samantha Arcangeli. This phenomenon has already been verified by the concerts of Zucchero and Italia Loves Romagna. But since there is a free market, laws are not broken but common sense breaks. “I point to the unreasonable and unusual increase in hotel prices for the evening of July 22, the date of the Harry Styles concert, to which I should go with my daughter – he writes – I understand that such a large flow of people The city finds and accommodation businesses were probably not prepared, but I find it intolerable that some establishments have reserved some rooms for themselves, which can be sold at the last minute at embarrassing prices: for example, 2- 558 euros for a night in a star hotel, but also requests for 700 or more than a thousand euros for a night in modest structures. I believe that, with regret, we have to leave the concert will be forced, a program that is perhaps too large for a city like Reggio that proves unable to guarantee hospitality. The bitterness remains in view of the prevailing malpractice and behavior that should not belong to professional hoteliers because They are like ferocious vultures.