Resumen de All you can live!: Touristic Perspectives within Contemporary Liguria
Luigi Mandraccio, Matilde Pitanti, Giorgia Tucci
The term “landscape” is meaningless to extend a broad conceptual framework.“Landscape” is also, however, the perfect synthesis of the many possible variations,since it refers to the idea – at the same time fascinating and insidious – of thecoexistence between man and nature. However, the landscape forms a dialecticalrelationship with the viewer, helping to produce a strong sense of community identity.A typical case that reflects this circumstance is undoubtedly the Ligurian coastallandscape. The balance between the different souls of the landscape is not an ordinarycondition, and Liguria is an example of this complexity. Among the exogenousdynamics that condition this delicate context, there is tourism. The effects of this activityare readable in the body of the territory and in the Ligurian one more than in others.All of these factors can be a prelude to the emergence of conflicts. Liguria – aware ofthe evolutionary process from the Second World War to today – has been interpretedas natural, urban and rural landscapes. The overall awareness of the principal territorialcharacteristics was then specified with a focus on urban fabrics extended in very denselinear systems along the coast. However, if this is the centre of tourism activity in thisregion, the future of tourism will involve the whole territory. This necessitates a studythat takes into account all the factors and conditions in the field at the same time. Theurban saturation, the building excesses of second homes and the delicate coexistencebetween the local population and the tourist-seaside invasion, have fuelled the fame ofthe Ligurian citizen as unfriendly and hostile towards tourists. The “era of mass tourism”,has shaped the landscape and the cities to accommodate the ever-increasing need ofthe tourism sector. Today, the economic and tourist scenario has profoundly changed,and other transformations are expected in the future. This puts the Ligurians in front oftheir ability to prove themselves a resilient community and to develop a new tourismand territorial model that is up to the challenges.
