Inner tourism in Italy: social actors and tourist places

Abstract

The tourist trend can be considered under several aspects. A widely accepted typology of the forms of tourism is the one formulated by E. Cohen, which in Italy was introduced by Asterio Savelli, proposing among the various tourism typologies a typological sequence which follows several objectives and routes depending on the different cultural realities, i.e. ethnical tourism, cultural tourism, historical (and artistic) tourism, environmental tourism and recreational tourism. Two forms seem to be dominant as ideal type, combining the characteristics of the social actor with the ones of the holiday resorts, the form of the vacationer, in the bathing, lake, hill or mountain resorts and the form of the sightseer, whose presence can be indicated as primary in the large centers of art and history and as secondary in the minor centers.

Keywords:

• types of Italian tourism
• inland tourism
• coast tourism
• tourist parks
• ecological
• recreational
• cultural functions
• tourist-gastronomic routes
• types of tourist settlements

Acknowledgements

Report during the 5th International Congress of Sociology of Tourism, Thessalonika, Greece, 24–26 September 2005.