The planning system in Italy and how it addresses tourism– related issues
The planning system in Italy and how it addresses tourism– related issues

Author(s): Giancarlo Cotella
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Regional Geography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Summary/Abstract: Summarizing, the main challenges of spatial planning for tourism destinations in Italy concerns: -The fact that traditional land-use planning is ill-equipped to deal with the issue, as it is mostly conceived as an activity that provides (or deny) land-use rights. - The fact that the challenges related to tourism are highly heterogeneous, ranging from the need to promote tourism activity in scarcely accessible inne areas to the mitigation of the negative externalities of overtourism in the main tourism destination, to the specific challenges of mountain and coastal areas. At the same time, a number of opportunties seems to exists. -The existence of a consolidated landscape planning system attached to spatial planning, that guarantee some sort of prescriptive power to the regions over landscape issues. ƒ The recent introduction of a regional development strategy that specifically focusing on valorising the specific development potentials of inner areas from a place based perspective. -The progressive consolidation of a strategic planning activity that, albeit non- -statutory, allows the development of virtuous public-private partnership as well ad virtuous multi-level governance dynamics, aiming at the production of joint development visions and at their implementation.

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