Ports: Venice and Chioggia start collaboration to improve cruise offers

A three-year collaboration which – through training, information, transmission of skills to and from the managers of accommodation facilities and the planning of work support paths in the hospitality sector – favors and promotes the growth of a tourism offer linked to the new model of sustainable cruise tourism, capable of contributing widely to developing a culture of hospitality capable of transmitting the values ​​of respect for the city and protection of the lagoon context, in Venice and Chioggia. This is the commitment signed this morning, at the AdSP headquarters in Venice, byPort System Authority of the Northern Adriatic SeaL’Venetian Hoteliers Association and the Intermodal Logistics Training Center of Venice to give a systemic response to the new needs of the two port cities in terms of tourism sustainability and employment growth in the area.

“We are developing the new sustainable cruise model by acting on various levels – he declares Fulvio Lino Di Blasio, president of AdSPMAS – to accompany the traveler arriving on a cruise on a journey of awareness of the delicate lagoon context. We have decided to act not only on the management and infrastructural reorganization front, but also on that of strengthening relations with the stakeholders of the port cities who work to enrich the offer or make it more sustainable, and this is the case of Venice, or to create it and develop it, as in the case of Chioggia, according to a system dynamic. The protocol signed this morning goes in this direction, recognizes an important role for training and updating in the field of sea tourism and cruise tourism and responds to the need of the hospitality sector to continue to be competitive by offering innovative services able to respond to the needs that environmental, economic and social changes require”.

Claudio Scarpa director of the Venetian Hoteliers Association explains: “AVA and AdPSMAS are two of the main players in the city and have clear priorities, translated into this protocol which, with the support of Cfli, aims to become a model of “Venetian hospitality”. A shared system that is based on the relational capacity of collaborators, interculturality, respect for the fragile Venetian context and security which, in the awareness of the important role of protecting the territory represented by our sector, can still be implemented even though Venice is already always considered a safe destination even from serious events such as terrorism”.

The project for AVA will be followed by Daniele Minotto, deputy director: “With this protocol we want to create a shared training model, standardizing and expanding skills that already have a consistent common basis. The objective is to allow the Venetian tourism system to raise the quality of hospitality and, at the same time, to make staff management more sustainable. The sharing project took its first steps in previous phases but extraordinary situations such as Covid or high water have made it even more evident how important it is to build a system capable of differentiating and re-adapting its offer, of hospitality but also work, maintaining quality at the high levels to which our guests are accustomed. Finally, a shared and interchangeable model can also be a fundamental resource to provide a guarantee of stability to workers”.

Michele Gottardi, CFLI president comments: “For over 30 years the CFLI, the AdSP training body, has been involved in updating and retraining with an activity aimed at job placement mainly in the port logistics sector. Furthermore, for about ten years it has been one of the few organizations in the historic center of Venice accredited for employment services by the Veneto Region. With this agreement the aim is to extend these services to the hotel sector as well, thus becoming the point of reference for all unemployed and young Venetians looking for work and not only for those who have the ambition of working in logistics, with a service territorially close to them. Furthermore, CFLI will make its ability to attract and manage funding for training available to AVA also for those already involved in the sector”.