Sustainability, Outdoor, Tourism, and Adventures

  It’s been a great, refreshing and energizing weekend here in Finale Ligure. The EWS was here after its first in Pietra Ligure. Many may not know – yet – Finale Ligure, nor Pietra, as a matter of fact: small Italian towns some 80 km from the French border. The Wild North West of Italy, with nice sea and a wonderful landscape. These are perfect locations to practice sport, and they are becoming more and more attractive sport tourism destinations. If you have never been here, check some pics and fall in love ( https://www.google.com/search?q=Finale+Ligure&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGqsy8qo7sAhXFsKQKHdDxA74Q_AUoAnoECCAQBA&biw=1514&bih=698 ) What makes these sport weekends so special is not only the fact that they are happening notwithstanding the COVID health crisis, but also that the integration of different small territories and different sports is growing exponentially. And this is not a given: often a petty competiti...

  The spread of agritourisms/farmhouses (see https://sustainableexperience.blogspot.com/2020/09/agritourism-first-part.html and https://sustainableexperience.blogspot.com/2020/09/agritourism-second-part.html ) is just one of the symptoms of the growing link between tourism and nature. To a growing number of travelers tourism is more and more about the desire to be outdoors, immersed in streets and landscapes to experience a symbiosis with local nature, products and traditions.   Factor this expanding strain of the food and wine sectors. The case study here is Italy, and how these sectors have evolved over the past decades. Anyone who was a child in the 1970s may remember that for the average Italian going out for lunch/dinner meant going to a pizzeria or restaurant. For the after Second World War generation, emerging from the rubbles of bombed cities, misery and low incomes, being able to effort a peaceful pizza with family and friends in a close-by pizzeria mean...