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Gay-friendly Cities? Much More Can Be Done
Thanks to the conquest of civil rights based on the construction and recognition of a specific cultural, social and political identity, LGBT+ people have also become a segment of the tourism market that produces considerable sales at the global level.#LGBT+ tourism regards not only the many thematic events organized around the world, but boasts the presence of ad hoc organizations such as the International ...
Tourism Becomes Ever More Rainbow
Today, the LGBTQ segment embraces 3 percent of more than a billion international travelers, and travel spending generated by LGBTQ travelers coming from the main markets is around 219 billion dollars per year.#Travelers in this segment are traditionally oriented towards LGBTQ friendly destinations, such as large American and European cities. However, in mature outbound markets, we are seeing an increase ...
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 ...
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 ...
All the Social and Environmental Value of the Bikeconomy
The value of bike tourism in the European Union now reaches 50 billion euros; and the figure is destined to grow even further thanks to the advent of the e-bike and the effects of the pandemic on people's lifestyles. Thanks to its wealth of natural and cultural beauty, the variety of its territory, and a food and wine culture without equal in the world, through targeted investments in infrastructure ...