CASALE SUL SILE and QUARTO D’ALTINO by Martina Ancona, Miriam Arculeo, Sebastiano Cecchini, Marta Costantini, Domenico Scribano, Melissa Serafin, Mariasole Trabucco – III A, “Tourism” ITT MAZZOTTI TREVISO for the Q18 TURISMO 20.0 School, tourism, territory
The students take us for a short walk along the river Sile and Veneto countryside
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THE ALTO SILE TERRITORY by Martina Corrent, Nicole Didonè, Miriam Lamon, Aurora Manera, Alberto Pilo – III A, “Tourism” ITT MAZZOTTI TREVISO for the Q18 TURISMO 20.0 School, tourism, territory
This in-depth study, concerning the upper Sile area of the Pianura Padana, has the aim of promoting the territory and its numerous, but still little-known, natural and cultural resources as well as its catering and accommodation services.
With this short presentation we want to introduce our readers to the traditions, history, culture, events, cuisine and activities to be carried out in these places. Places where we have grown up and that we have seen developing in the tourism and cultural fields.
The locations we explored were chosen for the connection we have with them; our hope is that they can be appreciated in the best possible way.
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Are Italians sustainable travellers? by Benedetta Strippoli – (V B student of tourism studies ITSET A. Martini Castelfranco Veneto -TV-) for Q18 TOURISM 20.0 School, tourism, territory
Sustainable tourism is an increasingly relevant topic for people who love to travel and want to contribute to the protection of the environment and the well-being of the community. But what does exactly “sustainable tourism” mean? According to the World Tourism Organization (WTO), sustainable tourism is a form of tourism that “protects and enhances future opportunities, while meeting the needs of travelers and host communities”. Its main features include the protection of environmental resources to preserve the natural and cultural environment of the tourist destination. Secondly, responsible tourism allows local communities to benefit from tourism activities in terms of income and quality of life. Furthermore, sustainable tourism aims to provide travelers with authentic and meaningful experiences.
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Experienced-based and sustainable tourism by Chiara Ceccon (teacher of corporate tourism studies ITSET A. Martini Castelfranco Veneto -TV -) for Q18 TOURISM 20.0 School, tourism, territory
The research and training project launched by Aida Marketing e Formazione, Progetto Re-Cycle and Paesi e Poesie, in collaboration with six Venetian and Calabrian schools and two municipalities, Zero Branco (TV) in Veneto and Caulonia (RC) in Calabria, has led to the analysis of the data from the questionnaires collected. The questionnaires asked the students of the six schools involved some questions relating to their relationship with the territory and how they experience sustainable tourism.
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Young students critical perception on tourism by Lucia Ammendolia for our Q18 TURISMO 20.0 Scuola, turismo, territorio
In this Quaderno our starting point was the Tourism 20.0 project (20 like the Italian regions). Our aim is to highlight the world of school, a real cross-section that helps us to have a more complete and broader picture relating to the perception of the tourism topic, offering an authentic overview of the school dimension. Our intent is above all to stimulate thinking and to encourage young people to have a critical point of view regarding the concept of tourism.
Due to the rapid evolution with which tourism is increasingly intertwined with the sustainability of the natural, social and economic environment, it is essential to listen to and support those who will inherit the situations that we adults are already leaving behind us.
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Summer season 2023 at Cavallino Treporti coast by Tiziano Simonato is the fourth article of our Q17 “School, professions and tourism trends” available from October here
This summer season has just ended and this year the positive trend – already recorded in 2022- is confirmed as well. Arrivals and presences in the outdoor tourism sector are at pre-Covid levels. A good sign for the restart of holidays and travel in general, despite the unfavorable economic situation.
Tourists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland are the regular guests of the Cavallino Treporti coast in summer […] The Municipality of Cavallino-Treporti has even established the “Ambassador Award”. A ceremony takes place to recognize the families of foreign guests -recommended by the tourist villages- who have spent their holidays at Cavallino for decades
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Is tourism a bad guy or a good guy? by Lucia Ammendolia is the third article in our Quaderno Q17 School, professions and trends in tourism” available from this link in October
“Work organization requires more motivation than control, more creativity than bureaucracy, more ethics than cunning, more aesthetics than practice, more life-time balance than overtime, multitasking and availability.”
Domenico De Masi
This year we have witnessed a strong increase in arrivals in Italy. On September 1, 2023, the data from the Territorial Observatory on national and international tourist flows were presented in Venice. Italy is the fourth most popular destination for European tourists, who invest 12% of total spending in our Bel Paese. Germany, Switzerland, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands represent the largest flow of foreign tourists to Italy. Only in July did Italy overtake Spain and Great Britain. (source immobiliare.it)
Unfortunately, the bad news is that domestic tourism has struggled to take off. Yet it should be the “treasure” of the sector because it is protected from any variables that nowadays easily affect foreign tourism. Furthermore, this type of tourism, prefers less travelled national locations. This could be seen last year, with an increase in presences in many areas of the South
There are many Italians who were unable to take a holiday in 2023 or preferred cheaper destinations. Inflation, increasing prices , wages, which have remained frozen for years, no longer offer a secure economic base. Even if there is a lot of demand for work, especially in the catering and accommodation services sector, there are many young people from North to South who do not even respond to the request. Sometimes there is a feeling that young Italians do not want to make sacrifices, but the phenomenon of “great resignation”, already known in the USA, is rapidly expanding in Europe too […] Continue reading “Is tourism a bad guy or a good guy” here
New tourism and new learning in the tourism sector by Chiara Ceccon (teacher of tourism at ITSET A. Martini Castelfranco Veneto -TV-) is the first article in our Quaderno 17 “School, professions and trends in tourism” available from this link in October
At the end of the pandemic crisis, with all its consequences, from the reorganization of teaching to compulsory training for teachers in the field of new digital technologies, secondary schools have to face new challenges to keep up with the times and with changes in the world of work.
As a teacher of a fundamental subject in tourism, corporate tourism disciplines, I realized that the tourism sector has speeded up times in an almost uncontrollable way; in fact, it is well known that tourist flows in the Italian and international markets have recovered post-pandemic at exponential rates compared to the pre-Covid-19 period.
A demonstration of this fact is that travel agencies, especially online tour operators, have increased or changed their mission, starting from “proximity tourism” and moving towards the so-called “experiential tourism”, requested by most of the tourist demand. This is also due to revenge tourism, i.e., the desire for revenge and the increased propensity to travel after the restrictions. The accommodation facilities have also been renewed, thanks to the possibility of taking advantage of tax incentives and the offer has also been enriched with new proposals in the food and wine sector. […]
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“The environmental side of the NRRP: policies with (little) territory “ by Alessandro Boldo is the fourth article in our Quaderno 16 “Human landscapes, urban landscapes” available from this link in July
The National Recovery and Resilience Plan, temporarily loosening budgetary constraints to 2026, should guarantee the implementation of those structural reforms capable of reactivating the country’s development within the Next Generation Eu scheme and in turn in the new paradigm of the European Green Deal (EGD).
Next Generation EU has allocated 37% of 800MM€ to support objectives of the EGD, of which a significant part to the implementation of the Italian NRRP, with the ambitious goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 and reducing climate-changing emissions by 55 % compared to the 1990 scenario by 2030.
With reference to the transition, Italy is the largest beneficiary in absolute terms, with 70 MM€ compared to 27 in Spain, 18 in France. In relative terms, Italy allocates the minimum to the transition: 37% against 40% in Spain, 46% in France, 42% in Germany, 59% in Austria.
Transition is already present in the major European strategies of the last 20 years, the ‘Lisbon Strategy’ and ‘Europe 2020’. As noted by Schunz (2022) the term transition in the former is associated with structural reforms of the knowledge-based type to enable the economic dynamism and competitiveness of the Eurozone. In the second, interventions of a purely economic nature shift the policy focus on the mitigation of the effects induced by financial crises, that of sovereign debts, adding two new areas of interest: digitization and climate change. […] Continue reading “The environmental side of the NRRP: policies with (little) territory” here
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“The landscape along the footprints of the Lion of Venice” by Lucia Ammendolia is the third article in Quaderno 16 “Human landscapes, urban landscapes” available from this link in July
The first reaction we have when thinking of the word landscape, or panorama which is its amplified extension, is something external to us, a postcard view, something abstract, which we can only grasp through a single sense, the view. Instead, it is something much more complex. Let’s think, for example, of the “soundscape”, given by the set of acoustic elements that compose it, like the sound of the bells in an old village or the cicadas in a mountain meadow. The place, in addition to the physiocratic aspect, also expresses its identity through the sounds of the environment.
“Il paesaggio era come un verso di poesia che crea sé stesso” (The landscape was like a line of poetry creating itself) (Corrado Alvaro)
The term LANDSCAPE derives from country, from the Latin pagus (= village); hence the adjective pagensis which means “the space around an agricultural village”.
This concept stands out even more in the term landscape. According to one of the fathers of the “Convention of the landscape”, the French geographer Yves Luginbuhl, this term is composed of land (earth) and schaft (to transform, model) therefore spaces of territories in continuous construction and consequent interaction between human being and nature. All this highlights the natural correlation between the territory and its anthropic part. Within the landscape, human being is not a mere observer but, quoting Jacob, he/she is an “active inhabitant”.
There are different ways of relating to the landscape, every people define and shape the context through their own experiences, lived in relation to it. This concept is summed up in a single word that we usually use: culture. Its etymology derives from the Latin “cultura” which means to cultivate, to honor the earth, from which lessons are learned. Landscape is a complex cultural process.
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