Italian alternative tourism festival to have green destinations day
"Travellers and Migrants" Italian Festival of Responsible tourism to have green destination day
In line with the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, the 9th edition of IT.A.CAÌ€, the festival on responsible tourism, invites participants to discover places and cultures through tours, exhibitions, workshops, concerts, documentaries, books and laboratories.
IT.A.CAÌ€ is aiming to create opportunities to reconsider trips not just as simple holidays and entertainment. The aim of the festival is to showcase experiences that offer challenges, risks, the desire for knowledge and discovery of the world, near and far from home.
Say the organizers "The trip, in fact, starts from home and returns home – hence our name (iÌt a caÌ€ = are you home? in Bolognese dialect). Here the journey, and the way the journey is experienced, is more important than the destination itself.
And this year the festival will have a global green destinations day.
IT.A.CÀ: Festival of Responsible Tourism is a unique event of its kind in Italy and Europe. It represents a good practice in which tourists and the local community give life to socially innovative practices that contribute to develop the territory in a sustainable way.
Focusing on the issue of responsibility in tourism, the festival has evolved in eight years of programming, organizing more than 150 initiatives and events, intended as opportunities to encourage participants to reflect on the idea of tourism.
The Festival aims to create a network of different organizations involved in responsible travel, and to engage participants in a multisensory experience. The agenda includes: guided tours aimed at enhancing the cultural and historical heritage of the area, debates and meetings with experts in the field, seminars, lunches at "kilometer zero", experiential dinners, writing contests, illustration and photography, exhibitions, concerts, film screenings and theater.
IT.A.CÀ has been held since 2008 in six different cities of North Eastern Italy. It involves over 200 organisations working in responsible tourism, international co-operation and social promotion.
This year in the Rimini edition of the festival, on 22 September, there will be a special Green Destination Day in co-operation with the Global100 Top Sustainable Destinations.
Further info: http://www.festivalitaca.net/
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