“Sustainable tourism and authentic experiences: the key role of tourist districts”. Tomorrow the Qn Distritti tour will stop in the capital of the Marche to give voice to the protagonists of the tourism chain in a region that wants to establish itself as a destination of national and international appeal. Appointment (from 10am) at the Loggia dei Mercanti in Ancona. Bper Banca is the main partner of the initiative, created in collaboration with the Marche Chamber of Commerce, the Municipality of Ancona, Luiss School of government and with the patronage of the Marche Region. After the introduction by Valerio Baroncini, deputy director of Resto del Carlino, speeches by Lucia Albano, undersecretary of the Mef (link); Daniele Silvetti, mayor of Ancona; Paolo Calcinaro, mayor of Fermo and vice-president of Anci Marche, and Giuseppe Marco Litta, head of the central-eastern territorial management of Bper Banca and president of the Abi Marche regional commission. First round table dedicated to tourism data: Gian Luca Gregori, rector of the Polytechnic of the Marche will talk about it; Valerio Temperini, professor at the Polytechnic and expert in sustainable tourism; Alessandra Priante, Enit president (linked); Marco Bruschini, director of Atim; Loretta Credaro, president of Isnart (connected), and Massimiliano Polacco, director of Confcommercio Marche and Marche Centrali and member of the Marche Chamber of Commerce with responsibility for tourism. Moderated by Andrea Brusa, head of the Ancona del Carlino editorial team. Then the word to the tourism entrepreneurs, who will take stock of the accommodation facilities: Matteo Di Sabatino (Palazzo dei Mercanti – Palazzo Guiderocchi), Eugenio Gallo, CEO of Gest Group; Daniele Gatti, president of Villaggi Marche, and Luca Giustozzi, president of Federalberghi Marche. “Trends and innovations in tourism: how technologies and digitalisation are changing the needs of the global traveller” will be discussed in the round table – moderated by Alessandro Caporaletti – with Daniele Berardinelli, tourism councilor of Ancona, Edoardo Colombo, president of the association Turismi.Ai, and Mara Martinovich, vice president of Fiavet Emilia-Romagna and Marche. So space for cultural tourism: guests Monsignor Angelo Spina, archbishop of Ancona-Osimo and vice-president of the Cem; Chiara Biondi, regional councilor for culture (connected); representatives of the Municipalities of Pesaro, Italian Capital of Culture, and Urbino. At 2.30 pm it will be the turn of reconstruction commissioner Guido Castelli (moderated by deputy director Baroncini), then space for the trade associations with Sandro Assenti, president of Confesercenti Marche; Giacomo Bramucci, president of Confcommercio Marche; Emanuela Leli, president of Cna Tourism and Commerce Marche; Paolo Longhi, vice-president of Confartigianato Imprese Marche; Ludovico Scortichini, president of the Tourism Group of Confindustria Marche. And again: here is the panel on “Institutional and strategic development and visions”. Francesco Baldelli, regional councilor for roads, infrastructure, territorial governance and public works, will talk about it; Angelo Eliantonio, councilor for economic activities and major events of the Municipality of Ancona; Alexander D’Orsogna, general director of International Ancona Airport; Vincenzo Garofalo, president of the Central Adriatic Port System Authority; Stefano Landi, master teacher in tourism and executive course in destination management at Luiss; Maddalena Lepretti, central-east corporate territorial manager of Bper Banca, and Alberto Rossi, founder, president and CEO of Frittelli Maritime Group and Adria Ferries. Closing of the works entrusted to MP Gianluca Caramanna, advisor to the Minister of Tourism for institutional relations; to the governor of the Marche, Francesco Acquaroli, and to Gino Sabatini, president of the Marche Chamber of Commerce.
