The International Working Party (IWP2007) will deal with the Adriatic-Ionian tourist system (ADRION) through an integrated, contemporary and feasible approach, as suggested by the European evolving Scenario and by the current global phase of post-modernity.
In that vision, the “Advanced Tourism” (A.T.) has become necessary (aware and responsible, cultural and religious, sporting and recreational ones, etc) as it represents a border of knowledge, a real economic driving factor. The A.T. defines new Networks of Euro-Regions without borders and ADRION is located among those Euro-Regions, in the middle of Europe. The “Advanced Tourism” is considered by the promoters of the IWP2007 as a complex indicator of the new phenomena of urbanization, generating world iper-cities arranged in three levels: between entirety (globalism) and local policies, between competition and cooperation, new alliances and unusual citizenships.
The ADRION Basin has its own territorial characteristics, its own past and current identities, deep-rooted communities and different cultures oriented towards a future in ferment. It reveals interaction, sometimes critical ones, between water and land (waterfront), city and countryside, landscapes and monuments; it registers the persistency of mass tourism and the growing of autonomous and personalized tourism. The last ones have the following peculiarities: fine, sustainable, connected to historical and artistic heritage, landscape and architectural ones.
The three sea systems – Adriatic, Baltic and and the system of the Black sea – have experiences for comparison, case studies to investigate. They have to be considered like laboratories of urbanity and hospitality, sea-land waterfront and like tourist architectures, even if experimental ones.
The IWP2007 intends to compare the territorial Network, the harbours and the crucial tourist typologies to draw the attention of the operators on the need for policies oriented beyond limited good and resources. That kind of policies should consider the open-mind of tourist creativity (also entrepreneurial), already existing in the city of arts, culture and entertainment: Bologna, Ravenna, and Rimini are an example. “Planning tourism” means to face a new border at the limit of the systems, combining history and culture, fine arts and beauty, nature and entertainment together with internet, low cost and nomadism, and creating dies of unlimited goods and inexhaustible resources thanks to entrepreneurial capacities, technical possibilities, specific policies, home-change, culture of hospitality. The Advanced Tourism is revealing new living modalities typical of post-modern period, and at the same time, they are still linked to traditions and local habits, because those living modalities appreciate the atmosphere of SLOW TOURISM (tourism which interiorize the historical time and that of the visited culture, the living spaces).
The complementariness of tourism on both the two ADRION coasts and the dosing between competition and cooperation in the tourist world suggest to create common moments of acquaintance and action, to allow the Adriatic-Ionian coasts to “create a system” (ADRION MOSAIC), connecting mobility and sedentary life.
The specific themes of the initiative refer also to the results of the previous experiences concerning Advanced Tourisms (AT), promoted during the period 2002-2006, such as:
The detailed themes of the IWP2007 are:
ASCOM - Strada Maggiore 23 Bologna - 3.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
TERRITORIES FOR TOURIST DEVELOPMENTS
Urban Center - Palazzo Re Enzo (entrance from Voltone del Podestà), Via Rizzoli, Bologna -9.00 a.m. - 12.00 a.m. / 3.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.
CITY AND ARCHITECTURES FOR HOSPITALITY
8.30 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Travelling in the ADRIATIC CITY – from Bologna through Ravenna to Rimini and back
Province of Bologna – Palazzo Malvezzi , Sala dello Zodiaco - via Zamboni 13 - 9.00 a.m. - 12.00 a.m. / 3.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.
CREATIVITY AND KNOWLEDGE FOR TOURISM IN HISTORICAL CITIES AND OF FINE ARTS
Departure from the Hotel San Giorgio, Via delle Moline 17
VISIT TO BOLOGNA, CITY OF FINE ARTS
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