The final conference of the EXTRA project will take place on Friday 12 November from 10.30 to 18.30, at the Salone dell’Università in Palazzo Granafei Nervegna in Brindisi, with the title “The social and cultural impacts of tourism: the ECTS approach".
This conference represents the arrival point of a project that involved the Management Consortium of Torre Guaceto and the Albanian Center for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development (ACESPD) to enhance the territories of the marine protected areas of Torre Guaceto in Italy and that of Karaburun Sazan in Albania.
The EXTRA project, funded by the Interreg IPA CBC Italy-Albania-Montenegro programme, aimed at enhancing targeted tourism sectors (food and wine, green, trekking, biking, fishing, etc.) and creating a shared space between the actors involved, offering the opportunity to meet, exchange and increase knowledge, through the presentation of good practices. The project has developed a joint programme of workshops and B2B experience laboratories, carried out between the territories of Torre Guaceto and Valona, following the principles of sustainable tourism, with a focus on parks, Natura 2000 sites, traditional agricultural practices and typical products. The ultimate goal was to contribute to the creation and management of tourist destinations in the programme area.
The conference will be an opportunity to dialogue with various institutional, business and research actors, Italian and Albanian, on the importance of sustainable tourism for the enhancement of the territories affected by the presence of naturalistic areas of international importance.
The morning session, led by the president of the Torre Guaceto Consortium, Rocky Malatesta, will be dedicated to the institutions, represented by the President of the Puglia Regional Council, Loredana Capone and by the Councilors for the Environment Anna Grazia Maraschio and for International Policies Alessandro Delli Noci, who will present the regional strategy for the enhancement of the Apulian territories, especially with reference to the Brindisi area, with the new planning of 2021-2027 European funds.
Later, it will be the turn of prof. Antonella Rinella of the University of Salento who will describe the contribution of the university world in offering new skills for the scenarios that will open with Blue Growth. The session will be closed by the representative of the Prefecture of Vlore, Shyqyri Sadiku.
The lunch break will be an opportunity to get to know the territory and tradition, a pact between chefs and small producers to promote good, fair and clean local foods and to save biodiversity. The menu, interpreted by Tony Errico of the Locanda di Nonna Mena in San Vito dei Normanni, Chiocciola Slow Food - Osterie d’Italia, will offer tastings of the products of the community of producers and "Presidia" of Torre Guaceto and other Apulian territories.
The afternoon session, from 15.00 to 18.00, is organized in 3 panels. The first one, on public and regional strategies for sustainable tourism, will feature Aldo Patruno Director of the Department of Tourism, Economy of Culture and Valorisation of the Puglia Region, Giampiero Sammuri Federparchi, Maria Luisa Caringella Puglia Region Tourism Section Medusa Project, Silvana Errico Mayor of S. Vito dei Normanni, Emma Taveri Councilor for Tourism of the Municipality of Brindisi.
The second panel will be entitled “Research as care and enhancement of the territory” with interventions and presentations by Prof. Teodoro Scarano, Senior Researcher (Rtd-B) Prehistory and Protohistory of the University of Salento, by prof. Nicolò Giovanni Carnimeo, Associate Professor of Navigation Law, University of Bari and Prof. Rigers Bakiu Director of the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture at the Agricultural University of Tirana.
The last panel is entitled “The actors of the territory for sustainable tourism” with speeches and presentations by Alessandro Ciccolella, Director of the Marine Protected Area of Torre Guaceto, Pierangelo Argentieri, President of Federalberghi Brindisi, Marina Roma, of the Hotel Consortium, Michele Sozio, by Slow Food Travel.
The afternoon session will also be an opportunity to take stock, together with local actors, of the path of the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism, which has just ended, and of planning for the new path towards CETS Level 2.
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Facebook live stream of the event: https://www.facebook.com/EXTRAITALB/