Italiatours è un progetto promosso dall’associazione Geoprogress (www.geoprogress.eu), a non-profit organization founded by a university professors and researchers with the aim to contribute to building a better world: the realization in every aspect of a "sustainable" development, namely alternative to the current.
The project is part of a program of initiatives for the growth of a more responsible tourism. This is mostly for activities that Geoprogress inherited from University Consortium "Re-Tour", Interregional network for the advancement of tourism, consists of some structures of Italian universities (Catania, Naples "Federico II", Rome "La Sapienza", Venice "Ca 'Foscari" and Eastern Piedmont): in fact several researchers of this consortium are among the founding members of Geoprogress and the former director of Retour is currently the president of the new Association .
Italiatours è realizzato con la collaborazione dell’agenzia di viaggi Supernova S.r.l. which has undertaken the technical direction and the sale of package constructed based on the routes proposed and illustrated by this organization. In Addition To, the project team can collaborate and other tour operators or travel agents who share the goals of the project and offer products to them consistent and appropriate to the target of tourists expected for the Expo.
Il progetto Italiatours – nato con il marcho Expotours allo scopo di organizzare un’offerta turistica per l’Expo 2015 ed in seguito proseguito e con altre forme e contenuti, sotto il nuovo marchio Italia-tours – è un’iniziativa per lo sviluppo dell’incoming turistico italiano con i seguenti obiettivi:
1) organizzare un’offerta turistica coordinata con prodotti che siano sotto ogni aspetto “sostenibili” , its responsible tourism consistent with the mission of Geoprogress.;
2) obtain from the sale of products by the entities that will contribute to the realization of the project the payment of costs and a profit includes a portion to be donated to the same association to finance projects of development aid to poor countries and thus help to ensure food security – for which an absolute priority assumes the training and especially the training of trainers, which can actually help to secure the future of many young.
Italiatours propone, then, only packages – whether or not produced in collaboration with Geoprogress - based on sustainability criteria (Organic, cultural and economic,,) and security, which are offered by tour operators and travel agents who donate at least 5% Revenue from the sale of packages in support of 'solidarity initiatives.
The tours visit already organized and selected by Geoprogress, che sono proposti in italiatours.it , try to give a correct idea of the resources and problems of land, to taste some food and drink of excellence, illustrating productions, in addition to showing the main scenic and historical attractions. In Any Case, even the tours to the most famous Italian destinations typically required by those who come for the first time in Italy are restricted to paths from one monument to another monument, as if the area was just a museum.
