More and more Italian and foreign tourists ask for more quiet, a closer contact with nature, relaxing places and tourist businesses get themselves ready for that. Next summer it will be easier to go for an eco-friendly holiday in Italy. The Riviera Romagnola presents www.Italygreenhotel.it as a truly green initiative. This new portal introduces visitors to a choice of greener holidays in hotels genuinely committed to eco-friendly practices, with tips and offers that reflect a sustainable hospitality. In this online window, only tourist businesses that are committed to the protection of the environment and adopt the measures of the Legambiente Turismo Decalogue. A more sustainable holiday starts with breakfast including a choice of local and organic food, may continue with a walk or a bike ride to discover local nature and heritage and conclude with some local shopping. Organic dishes or typical recipes are available at lunch or dinner, sometimes with vegetables directly form the orchard … The eco-friendly holiday portal starts in Emilia Romagna, as a guide for both tourists caring for the environment and tourists who may want to (re)discover an Italian-style relaxing holiday at the Adriatic Sea. But the plans are to add in time other Legambiente Turismo eco-friendly hotels across Italy.
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Tourism meets the environment: a new sense of place
Tourism has always been connected with the environment and the discovery of new lands and different people. In a global society that tends to level off diversities with a continuous mixing and blurring of local character and identities, the protection of the environment, the land and landscapes and the preservation of local culture and traditions are increasingly perceived by both tourists and tourist businesses as a plus that improves quality of life and holiday in all destinations.
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