UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI ROMA TOR VERGATADear student, please consult the schedule for Tourism in Inner Areas: The Case of Cammino Terre Mutate seminar.
The seminar will take place on March 24th 2025, 8:30-11:00 am, B building, Room P25
The seminar explores the role of tourism in inland areas of Italy, giving an overview of potential and criticalities, national policies and bottom-up projects.
According to the National Strategy for Inland Areas (2014), inland areas are territories – often mountainous and rural – lacking in essential services, depopulated, but rich in resources. In the last ten years, these areas have been at the center of a dense debate, often dominated by urban-centric imaginaries that represent them solely as tourist destinations for citizens.
In the first part of the seminar, an overview of the geography of inland areas will be given, analyzing the main tourism policies, visions and actions that affect them. What happens when in these peripheral areas the conditions of peripherality are transformed into factors of attractiveness?
In the second part of the seminar, slow tourism and regenerative tourism will be discussed, a recent tourism design strategy that aims at the regeneration of vulnerable areas, such as post-earthquake contexts. This tourism model aims to support local economies and promote alternative development approaches, in contexts affected by socio-natural disasters. The case of the Cammino nelle Terre Mutate, which crosses the inland areas of central Italy affected by the earthquakes of 2009 and 2016-2017, will be discussed.
The seminar is part of the Territorial Management of Sustainable Tourism course by Prof. Francesca Sabatini, in the Master’s Degree Course Tourism Strategy, Cultural Heritage and Made in Italy. It is aimed at students, and open to public participation.