22|10|2009
Beyond the borders: AD is discussed in Brazil
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Tourism is a key-factor within global economics, according to the official opinion of the main international organizations, since the G8 summit in Doha 2001.
Brazil is one of the countries in which the idea of inclusive tourism development, sustainable and compatible with tradition, has recently been linked to the concept of Albergo Diffuso.
UFPI (Federal University of Paiuì) has recently hosted the third edition of the Week of Tourism; it's a more and more important event for a subject which wants tourism to be the key to its economical development. Dr. Giovanni Minadeo and Dr. Chiara Dall'Acqua, both volunteers within the Arbave Barro Vermelho Association, have explained to the local audience the model of "Albergo Diffuso" and "Museo Diffuso", formulas already tested in Italy, but absolutely new in Brazil, as in all South America.
SISAD, technical partner of Arbave, has supplied the needed information to help the participants to acknowledge pros, cons and assets of a working project for an Albergo diffuso.
Tourism assets of the Piauì coasts are strong. It's a territory that, compared to nearby regions such as Cearà and Maranhão, has not been invaded by mass tourism and has kept its landscape and natural assets nearly intact.
Now there's the possibility not just of an innovative receptive enterprise, sustainable and inclusive of local people, but an involving process from the basis which can produce an escalation of new results, compared to the past ones, that is a "virtuous" Albergo diffuso.
Which starting point could be there? The decision NOT to take away ground or estates from local families, which own them since generations ago, that is not to make one of the most typical mistakes within economical development process, which theoretically looks for the involvement of local people.
Is there an alternative? Yes: keeping on believing to the investors who may involve the local community only after dispossessing them (often for very little money) of their ground and of their roots. Ingeniousness is a terrible sin; it's like a fire, on which new colonizers, but not so different from the old ones, will blow.
Brazil is one of the countries in which the idea of inclusive tourism development, sustainable and compatible with tradition, has recently been linked to the concept of Albergo Diffuso.
UFPI (Federal University of Paiuì) has recently hosted the third edition of the Week of Tourism; it's a more and more important event for a subject which wants tourism to be the key to its economical development. Dr. Giovanni Minadeo and Dr. Chiara Dall'Acqua, both volunteers within the Arbave Barro Vermelho Association, have explained to the local audience the model of "Albergo Diffuso" and "Museo Diffuso", formulas already tested in Italy, but absolutely new in Brazil, as in all South America.
SISAD, technical partner of Arbave, has supplied the needed information to help the participants to acknowledge pros, cons and assets of a working project for an Albergo diffuso.
Tourism assets of the Piauì coasts are strong. It's a territory that, compared to nearby regions such as Cearà and Maranhão, has not been invaded by mass tourism and has kept its landscape and natural assets nearly intact.
Now there's the possibility not just of an innovative receptive enterprise, sustainable and inclusive of local people, but an involving process from the basis which can produce an escalation of new results, compared to the past ones, that is a "virtuous" Albergo diffuso.
Which starting point could be there? The decision NOT to take away ground or estates from local families, which own them since generations ago, that is not to make one of the most typical mistakes within economical development process, which theoretically looks for the involvement of local people.
Is there an alternative? Yes: keeping on believing to the investors who may involve the local community only after dispossessing them (often for very little money) of their ground and of their roots. Ingeniousness is a terrible sin; it's like a fire, on which new colonizers, but not so different from the old ones, will blow.
