Soft mobility in all its aspects: walking, cycling, horseback riding, rowing, historical trains and electric mobility.
Two threads:
1. the rapid rise of the bicycle economy, strengthened by innovations in e-mobility; 2. the geographies of a locality, to meet growing demand for experience, and also to respond to the need to relaunch systems after the Covid-19 pandemic.
SIMTUR President
Federico Massimo Ceschin has been a manager of local authorities, administrator of trade fairs, director of tourism promotion consortia and manager of European projects in numerous regions of Italy and Europe. He was European vice-president of the Via Francigena and general secretary of Cammini d’Europa. Author of more than 20 publications, he has collaborated in research, studies and dossiers with the most prestigious organisations involved in the enhancement of cultural and environmental heritage. His works have received national awards and international recognition, including “Mediterranean Award for Cultural Heritage”, “Cultura di Gestione”, “Hombres”, “99 Ideas for Italy”, “Sfide 2007”, “Un Bosco per Kyoto”. He is director of the “Slow and sustainable tourism” course at ITS Tourism Puglia and collaborator of ITS Tourism Lazio. He teaches master courses, including “Responsible and Sustainable Tourism” at the Accademia Creativa Turismo and “Travel Reportage” at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He is president of SIMTUR - the Italian Society of sustainable mobility and tourism professionals.
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Associate Professor of Geography M-GGR/01 at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Department of History, Cultural Heritage, Education and Society. He is currently coordinator of the TUREG (food and wine tourism) professional degree course and the “Food culture and food and wine traditions” and “Travel Reportage” masters. Since 2019, he has been the director of the “Tourism and Hospitality Territories” Series, Armando Editore; since 2018, he has been the director of the “Documenti Geografici” Series; he sits on the Technical Scientific Committee of the ITS Tourism High Education Foundation and is on the Executive Board of the GAL Pre.gio; he is a member of the PaTer (Landscape and Territory) Research Centre established by the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. He deals with landscape, sustainable tourism, soft mobility, and cultural routes. His most recent publications include “Ambiente, Paesaggio e Turismo. Teorie e casi”, Rome, Universitalia, 2018 and, with Federico Ceschin and Gaia Ferrara, “Del viaggio lento e della mobilità sostenibile. Itinerari, paesaggi, territori, esperienze”, Exorma publisher, 2017.
Act Travel
Maurizio Di Marco, is the founder of ACT Travel, a tour operator specialised in incoming and experiential tourism. It is the tour operator entrusted with the development of the “Piccole Patrie” project He is president of ACT - Accademia Creativa Turismo, a training school for the tourism sector, member of AITR - Associazione Italiana Turismo Responsabile. In his professional career, which began in 1980, he held various managerial positions within the CTS group, first in tourism distribution and then, since 2000, as the creator of the CTS Study Centre, which has become one of the main institutes for tourism training in Italy.
Travel writer
Ornella D'Alessio is a PhD student in Cultural Heritage, Training and Territory and lecturer at the Master of Travel Reportage at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Her main interests are the environment, sustainability, ecotourism in connection with communities, convivial and accessible tourism and travel. A journalist for 35 years, she has written for the world's leading travel magazines from National Geographic to Monocle, as well as Dove, Bell Italia, Bell Europa and Style. Her latest publications include Norway Reporter (2019) and Vie Verdi - on disused railway tracks (2020).
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