(ANSA) – BOLOGNA, NOV 24 – The 13th edition of ‘IT.A.CÀ Migrants and Travelers-Responsible Tourism Festival’ closed its doors with a record attendance, over 30,000, in the 560 events organized by the 23 stages who welcomed the public in the 15 Italian regions participating in the project.
Counting on a network of over 750 national and international realities, 50 more than last year, the exhibition developed the theme ‘Right to Breathe’ from May to November, organizing, in addition to the ‘live’ events, nine webinars with 34 experts in the accessible and sustainable tourism sector. The Festival was also very popular on social and web channels, reaching over 3 million users in the seven months of programming. Of the 560 ‘live’ events, 340 represent itineraries on foot and by bicycle, “proof of the need to slow down to resume a slower pace of life and in harmony with nature and places to discover”.
“The impact of the pandemic has generated a never-before-seen crisis in tourism, and if some tourism models have been forced to face various contradictions related to their unsustainability, others have benefited – says Pierluigi Musarò, director of IT.A.CÀ – This is how it was for the many territories in which we made the Festival: experiences lived in safety and in direct contact with the inhabitants and the spirit of the places, perhaps proof of the radical psychological change in the approach to holidays and of the fact that the human relationship is worth more before”.
At the end of this edition of the ‘re-departure’, the Festival proposed an ‘Manifesto’ in eight points, “built with a view to continuing to propose sustainable travel models that are attentive to communities and territories, not just a way of to travel but to live, based on respect and development of the human being “. (HANDLE).
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