There are 236 seaside resorts in Italy the place this 12 months the “Blue Flag” can be flying whereas 485 seashores have been categorized as “glorious” for 4 consecutive years, equal to 11.5% of these awarded worldwide. Nevertheless, the variety of vacationer locations which have obtained worldwide recognition from the FEE (Basis for environmental schooling) on the idea of 32 program standards has dropped from 84 to 81. On the rostrum Liguria marks 2 new entries however loses two flags, thus confirming 34 places; Puglia rises to 24 with 3 new municipalities and one exit whereas Campania and Calabria observe on equal phrases with 20 flags, with yet another recognition every. With a brand new entry, the Marche area receives 19 blue flags, whereas Tuscany drops to 18 and loses a municipality. Sardinia confirms its 15 localities, Abruzzo additionally rises to fifteen with a brand new entry, Sicily reaches 14 flags with three new entries, Trentino-Alto Adige rises to 12 with two extra municipalities, Lazio stays at 10. In Emilia-Romagna, 9 places had been awarded and the 9 flags of Veneto reconfirmed. Basilicata confirms its 5 localities, and there are additionally 5 municipalities in Piedmont that acquire the flags. Lombardy confirms 3 municipalities, Friuli-Venezia Giulia maintains its 2, like Molise. This 12 months there are 23 Blue Flags on the lakes, with 2 new ones.
Le new entry
In whole there are 14 new entries: Ortona (Abruzzo), Parghelia (Calabria), Cellole (Campania), Borgio Verezzi (Liguria), Recco (Liguria), Porto Sant’Elpidio (Marche), Lecce (Puglia), Manduria (Puglia ), Patù (Puglia), Letojanni (Sicily), Scicli (Sicily), Taormina (Sicily), Tenno (Trentino Alto Adige), Vallelaghi (Trentino Alto Adige). 4 municipalities haven’t been reconfirmed: Ameglia (Liguria), Taggia (Liguria), Margherita di Savoia (Puglia) and Marciana Marina (Tuscany).
Within the Blue Flag award ceremony, at this time on the CNR headquarters in Rome, within the presence of the mayors and the Minister for Civil Safety and Maritime Insurance policies, Nello Musumeci, the president of the Charge Italia Basis, Claudio Mazza, underlined that rising the variety of flags, «however what’s rising is above all of the sensitivity and consciousness of the residents, who deserve the credit score for this recognition. Each Blue Flag administration is aware of properly that virtuous administration of the territory additionally essentially entails the coaching and involvement of people, faculties, associations, native actions and all operators”. And in reality, nice significance is given to the administration of the territory applied by municipal administrations which purpose for the Blue Flag additionally to advertise their territory on a vacationer stage. The 32 standards of the Program, explains Charge Italia, are up to date periodically with a view to push the collaborating native administrations to decide to fixing, and bettering over time, the issues referring to land administration for cautious safety of the surroundings. Within the analysis section carried out by the Fee in response to a inflexible procedural scheme, numerous institutional our bodies made their contribution, together with the ministries of Tourism, Agriculture, Meals Sovereignty and Forestry, the Setting and Power Safety; the Istituto Superiore di Sanità; the Orders of Chemists and Physicists; the Nationwide Analysis Council; College of Tuscia and the College for Foreigners of Perugia; and personal organizations reminiscent of seaside unions (Sib-Confcommercio and Fiba Confesercenti). The following approval by the worldwide jury led to the achievement of the ultimate outcome. The 81 award-winning touchdown locations, explains Charge Italia, exhibit that the vacationer port has consolidated the sustainability selections undertaken, assembly the necessities for the worldwide award, guaranteeing the standard and amount of the providers offered in full environmental compatibility. Charge, based in 1981, is a global non-governmental and non-profit organisation, registered as a charity in the UK and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, presently current in 81 international locations on 5 continents. The primary goal of the Charge packages is the dissemination of fine practices for environmental sustainability, by a number of schooling and coaching actions, with explicit consideration to varsities of all ranges. «Our Italy is more and more blue. With the entry of the brand new 2024 Blue Flag places, Italy rises to 485 seashores licensed for the superb high quality of the ocean and good environmental sustainability practices, i.e. over 11% of these awarded on the planet: a recognition that attests, as soon as once more, the excessive stage of the Italian supply by way of ecology, providers and hospitality – says Daniela Santanchè, Minister of Tourism -. Along with being an extra ally in rising the competitiveness, visibility and status of the constructions and the Italian model”
Rethink the vacationer tax
«We have to mirror on the vacationer tax, as we’re already doing. To begin with, we have to give attention to the precept of proportionality: I consider that somebody who goes to a lodge and spends a thousand euros an evening ought to pay greater than somebody who goes to a lodge and spends 50. So we should always rethink it in these phrases and in such a manner. to make it an actual function tax, in order that the assets collected by it are then directed in direction of the advance of vacationer providers” stated Minister Santanchè throughout an interview on “Giù la masks” on Rai Radio 1.
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2024-05-15 18:14:19
