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Technology and Sustainability Take a Cruise
The world of cruise tourism is facing extremely complex challenges. The latest reports on the state of the industry highlight the progress made and underscore the persistent efforts to innovate and promote more responsible tourism. The case of MSC Crociere demonstrates that the future of the sector is linked to technological innovation, environmental sustainability, and the reconsideration of traditional ...
Mountain Tourism in Transition
Various studies conducted in 2020 and 2021 have shown an increase in the attention of travellers for sustainability, starting with environmental sustainability. A study conducted by Booking.com on its users, for example, indicated that 82 percent of travellers think that travelling sustainably is important. For this reason, mountain tourism is evolving towards zero-impact solutions able to integrate ...
New Trends in Beach Tourism
Beach tourism has always represented an important segment for Italy, and during the pandemic the seaside confirmed its position as the preferred tourist product for summer vacation. However, the changed socio-economic context has introduced some alterations in consumer behavior, such as attention to environmental sustainability and a broader sociality. These are changes that demand a rethinking of ...
Threats and Opportunities for the Fishing Industry
Commercial fishing represents a significant economic and social component at the national level, not only as a supplier of important food resources, but also as an expression of a deeply-rooted cultural heritage of the coastal areas. However, fishing opportunities are decreasing due to the need for preserving diversity in intact marine ecosystems, in line with the priorities of the European Green ...
The City Needs the Mountains
The idea of mountains seen as an impervious territory, far from services and economic-cultural flows, is by now obsolete. To the contrary, the forms of flexible, light, agile, alternative, and temporary organization developed in the mountains in terms of adaptability and habitability can represent answers for urban territories. The mountains are a source of resources, biodiversity, and energy, and ...
New Inhabitants in Mountain Territories
The question of the repopulation of mountain areas must be addressed in a broader view of local development. There are four priority axes with respect to the construction of policies of attraction and welcoming new inhabitants: the upgrading of territorial services; economic diversification; territorial marketing; and education and training. That approach allows for activating innovative systems for ...
The Creation of Value through Sustainable Debt Instruments
Sustainable debt instruments, and in particular green bonds, sustainability-linked bonds, and green loans, represent an innovative, constantly-growing solution to finance business activities and projects. These instruments are characterized by the possible presence of the so-called greenium, the negative premium that debt subscribers are willing to pay the issues for those instruments. Although the ...
Carbon Prices and Markets: The Solution to Climate Change?
To incentivize the energy transition, a growing number of governments throughout the world are implementing market-based mechanisms, for instance involving carbon prices and markets. These mechanisms, in which companies make voluntary commitments, have seen enormous growth in the last two years. Companies begin to perceive decarbonization not only as a threat, but also as an opportunity. The energy ...
ESG Rating and Credit: How to Assess Integrated Risk
A sustainability rating, or ESG rating, represents an appropriate integration of the information on business risk deriving from the more consolidated credit rating. An integrated approach that involves a joint assessment of the financial solidity of a company (credit rating) and its sustainability (or solidity of the business model), allows for innovating risk management activity by making it more ...
Accelerating the Transition: Financial Services Must Also Do Their Part
In the last two years, the increase of social disturbances, the growing attention to climate change, and the need to act on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, has attracted attention from companies in all sectors. Financial services companies are also called on to catalyze and accelerate the transition toward a new economy, based on ecosystems that satisfy the needs of all stakeholders. ...