Sustainability, Outdoor, Tourism, and Adventures

From Germany( https://sustainableexperience.blogspot.com/2020/09/agritourism-first-part.html )the phenomenon of agritourism was adopted in Italy. Here it developed into a model later to be taken as a reference. The history of Italian rural life is negatively marked by growing urban industrialization. Between the 50s and 70s the repercussions of the latter are particularly felt: for the drainage of the workforce, and for pollution, for the progressive depopulation of ancient rural and mountain settlements. The urbanized peasants underwent a process of social alienation, and the cleavage between town and country became more acute.   The years of the oil shock contributed to a sense of insecurity and concern. Faced with a progress whose costs in terms of quality of life, sociality and security weighed so significantly, many people rediscovered the value of the countryside. As often happens in highly urban-centered societies as the Italian one, the rediscovery had the characte...

  The phenomenon of mass tourism saw the hotel building boom in many areas, for the quality of the services, for the perception of status symbol of being able to spend holidays in hotel gave to post-war generations and finally yet importantly, because tourists felt very little travelers. They felt and wanted to be treated like tourists, which means buying products designed and marketed for tourism. The world of hotel tourism is that where everyday life revolves around the idea of ​​a holiday. For tourists this remains the ideal and most congenial dimension to satisfy their needs. Indeed, it is a dimension that has reached a very high level of quality and sophistication through a huge economic, cultural and knowledge investment in the hotel and cruise sector, huge floating hotels that lead the tourist to various destinations without forcing him to be travelers.   And this is the pivotal point around which an alternative form to that of hotels of accommodation is constantl...

More and more tourists would rather describe themselves as travelers. For ages the tourism industry would not include this strain that has evolved from the small group of pioneers to become a new reality.   Things are blurring: tourists are also travelers, and travelers do tourism. Bing a traveler means to integrate in the local reality, to leave the “tourists compound” to be part of the picture of the location. It’s written nowhere that a tourism agent cannot offer this kind of experience, and taking into due account the demand, this is evolving too, through the way excursions are organized, to where tourists are taken to, and to what they are offered.   Disintermediation provided by internet is widening the options for travelers/tourist-travelers. Airbnb is in the forefront of this trend. But, regardless the fact that Airbnb is already a consolidated reality, is it really something new in the history of how we travel?   Tourist accommodation has change...