RICERCA ITALIANA     

Research program

Mediterranean Spaces and Cultures. Measurement, Analysis, Comprehension, Evaluation and History for the Knowledge and Monitoring of Transformative Processes in the Mediterranean Area.

University Co-ordinator

Seconda Università degli Studi di NAPOLI - CULTURA DEL PROGETTO - CASERTA(CE)

Research Unit Leader

Carmine GAMBARDELLA

Description

The research program aims at use an innovative methodology in the field of scientific study. It concerns the survey and the representation of environment and territory tanks to a Geographic Information System. It is a flexible system used to create complex and integrated projects joining different scientific knowledge. It can be used to improve Maghrebine development preserving the identity and the culture of the people.
To create a competitive territory is necessary a good tourist policy. It is indispensable to satisfy the tourists and to create a good integrated supply. The territory is a mix of history, culture, nature, landscape, artistic heritage, typical foods and traditions. These resources must be combined in a marketing logic linked to quality of tourist services and tourist satisfaction.
Each territory must respect the quality standard for the tourist supply; first of all for the environment, following by accommodation, security of infrastructure, handicrafts, typical food.
The tourism became the means to promote the socio-economic resources and to spread historical and artistic heritage, landscape resources and religion tanks to values and traditions.
The sustainable promotion of territory became the first point in each program that aims at the socio-economic development. In particular for the area of Mahgreb is possible to speak of ecotourism program.
The ecotourism must be promoted by innovative policies. These policies must involve a lot of people and create interests for all community.
In the "periphery" of Mahgreb the ecotourism is the solution to improve the conditions and to promote the increase of economy. It is based on the employment, on the quality of environment and life and on the sustainable development. Although the tourism produces a negative impact (when it is express as tourism mass and it is concentrated on the rural and natural area of Mahgreb), it can generate positive effects if it is organized in integrated policies. In this context an ecotourism project can generate a good opportunity to preserve and increase the value of natural resources, to educate and to awaken the local community and to communicate the role of environment to tourists. In Mahgreb a model of development based on ecotourism can represent the satisfaction of two objectives: the increase in value of natural and cultural heritage, and the economic development.
In fact the ecotourism:
- increases the activity concerning accommodations;
- promotes the activity concerning local products (they represent tradition and profession consolidated in time and space);
- satisfies the tourists interested to improve their knowledge on the nature and local culture.
The growing demand on quality of life, on nature and on a new relationship between man and nature with following demand of nature, of open air, of historical knowledge, of culture, of folklore, but also of research of a new experience produce a new type of tourism and of tourists. It is represented by a new kind of trip, excursion, trekking and so on…
In Mahgreb to realize a sustainable tourism is necessary to create a tourism supply based on environment. The first purpose is satisfy an increasing demand of environmental tourism that utilize the architectural, historical, natural and cultural heritage of places but respect the indicator of environmental quality.
In the tourist sector the environmental quality is global because it includes the system (satisfaction of need thanks to a good control of productive process), services/products (conformity of the service with standard for the satisfaction of needs), process (human resources, organization).
Anyway, after these reflections we can consider a model of sustainable development based on the purposes of Agenda 21. In international documents is possible to observe the promotion of international cooperation to promote a model of conscious tourism. The success of this tourism is based on interaction between economy and environment.
Agenda 21 has the following steps:
- Creation of a Forum: the most relevant subjects to local level (that can realize a tourist-environmental strategy -institutions, administrators, stakeholders, associations and so on-) must coordinate themselves in a Forum. It is a need for improved coordination of environmental and economic concerns. The process starts with the indications of democratic purposes concerning environmental actions. These actions must be important for the future of local community. With following analysis of the environmental problems on creates the territorial audit. It is the base to establish the order of interventions.
- Redaction of a Report on the State of the Environment: The report is a problem-orientated data collection of the local environmental condition, identifying key trends, areas for concern and pressures on the local environment. A set of key indicators assists to easily identify any improvement or worsening of the situation. On the base of this report is possible to realize the redaction of Agenda 21 and Local Forum.
- Tourist Programme Action Plan: It represents a plan of actions to realize the objectives. It includes the indication of "actors" that are responsible for support instruments, of financial resources and of application of plan
- Monitoring, evaluation and update of Action Plan: It is necessary to active control procedures on the efficiency of Plan.