It seems that COVID 19 uncertainty will still mine the travel industry recovery, in the short run. Expectations are that international travelling is moving to mid-2021, with an over-loss of -80% if compared with 2019. Nevertheless, this is a global problem, which solutions can only be local. Considering that nobody can forecast exactly when and […]
Will the Italian travel industry change because of the coronavirus epidemy? During these days of COVID-19 in Italy, silence haunts the cities and it gives space to thinking, to imagination, to that peculiar feeling that coronavirus brings something more than a dramatic, unusual isolation and sacrifice. No traffic, no boats, no airplanes, no […]
Great challenges often start fighting against all odds: and in many cases, solidarity and union can help facing them. Few days ago, I was in Agrigento with Aregai Association (Italian no-profit Association involved in disseminating a new concept of sustainability, based on an innovative assessing model called LICET) to celebrate the winners of the #BezzoPrize, […]
If you were us, would you make a brand of it? Laboratorio Monferrato has gathered a 3rd time, in ‘Cascina LA Rossa – Morsasco’ in a ‘agrituturismo’ at the feet of the Apennines a bunch of km north of the Ligurian Sea, to boost the Monferrato breakfast project. This is meant to be a new […]
A balanced tourism development is hard to achieve: either there are destinations which suffer from ovetourism or others, which would deserve to be discovered and promoted for their beauty, but still they are not. One of these latter ones is the Monferrato area, in Piedmont, close to the extremely well known Langhe and Roero ( […]
New York as the Big Apple, a Melting Pot… so many interpretations for one of the biggest cities in the world. A place of strong immigration, during centuries, from all Continents. Italians played a role as immigrants early XIX century: you can reckon their huge number by the restaurants, trattorias, cafés opened at almost every […]
When talking of ‘Diet’, food comes to mind. Nevertheless, the Mediterranean Diet is much more than just food . It identifies a culture, a system of values which nestles in families. Here women are true spokesmen of the Mediterranean Diet. UNESCO reads: ‘The Mediterranean diet involves a set of skills, knowledge, rituals, symbols and traditions […]
THE SENSE OF PLACE ‘Tourism can only compound the degradation of hospitality, because a part of the Mediterranean and African population has given up offering traditional hospitality, in order to spoil unaware tourists, who do not know the value of thing or of currency. Not only we are living an economic crisis (…) All […]
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