Is the beautiful always true? And is the real always beautiful? Between overtourism, experience tourism, and gentrification: the space of a new dialectic between false and authentic
- Thursday, October 10, 2024
- 11:00 - 12:30
- Memo
- BeActive Arena - Pav. C4
- Paola Autore Vice President of AITR and Coordinator of national and international projects Coop Culture
- Alex Giuzio Editor-in-Chief of Mondo Balneare
- Paolo Grigolli Destination Management Expert Just Good Tourism
- Stefano Landi President of SL&A and professor in tourism subjects at LUISS
- Patrizio Scarpellini Cinque Terre National Park Director
- Mariapina Trunfio Professor of Tourism and Business Management and Director of the master's degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management Parthenope University of Naples
- Sebastiano Venneri President of Vivilitalia and head of tourism sector Legambiente
In the eyes of foreign tourists, our country tends to look more and more like a giant theme park. Art cities, as well as small villages and naturalistic places, lose their characteristics of lived-in places and turn into what the visitor expects to find, with stores, restaurants and services repeated in series. Add to this the fact that the gentrification and touristification of neighborhoods, villages, beach and mountain tourism destinations are pushing the less affluent segments of the population further and further to the margins, and demonstrations against overtourism are multiplying. Is it possible to reverse the trend and return the real Italy to tourists and residents? Is there a real boundary in tourism between authentic and artifact?
At the end of the meeting, organized by Legambiente, the award ceremony with the Ecotourism Oscars to the most virtuous case histories.
Moderator: Alex Giuzio, Editor-in-chief Mondo Balneare