Cruises Venice, Authority-Ava-Cfli agreement to improve offer

TRIESTE – An agreement was signed this morning in Venice between Port System Authority, Venetian Hoteliers Association and Intermodal Logistics Training Center of Venice for tourism sustainability in the cruise sector.
A three-year collaboration that – through activities of training, information, transmission of skills to and from managers of accommodation facilities and the planning of work support paths in the hospitality sector – encourages and promotes the growth of a tourist offer linked to the new sustainable cruise model. The objective is to develop a culture of hospitality capable of transmitting the values ​​of respect for the city and protection of the lagoon context, in Venice and Chioggia.
«We are developing the new sustainable cruise model by acting on various levels – he explains Fulvio Lino Di Blasio, president of the Authority – 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 capable of responding to the needs that environmental, economic and social changes require”.