Sustainable Tourism Law

FROM TOURISM TO SUSTAINABLE TOURISM 47 Movies such as “La Dolce Vita” or songs like “Arrivederci Roma” – to mention only a few of these “events” – led thousands of tourists to visit our country in search of flavours or emotions related to popular feelings or impressions. Leisure tourism developed alongside the traditional elites that continued to visit our museums and art cities. For a decade, between the late 1950s and the early 1960s, Italian tourism was considered as a model in the world. Testimonies of that era were the great transatlantic passenger liners crossing the Atlantic. The world’s largest tourist fleets poured into our cities hundreds of thousands of visitors and tourists. Returning to the legal framework, some important legislative interventions were adopted in those years, which are worth listing here: Law 31 July 1959, no. 617 (Istituzione del Ministero del Turismo e dello spettacolo – Institution of the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment); Dpr 27 August 1960, no. 1041 (Riordinamento dell’Ente nazionale per il turismo – ENIT – Reorganization of the National Tourism Organization – ENIT); Dpr 27 August 1960, no. 1042 (Riordinamento delle aziende autonome di cura, soggiorno e Turismo- Reorganization of autonomous institutions for care, stay and tourism); Dpr 27 August 1960, no. 1043 (Riordinamento del Consiglio centrale del Turismo – Reorganization of the Central Tourism Council); Dpr 27 August 1960, no. 1044 (Riordinamento degli Enti provinciali del Turismo – Reorganization of Provincial Tourism Bodies); L. 26 January 1963, no. 91 (Riordinamento del Club Alpino Italiano – Reorganization of the Italian Alpine Club). We may ask ourselves what was the level of professional education of the operators of that time. The vocational training was mainly entrusted to the undergraduate professional institutes, among which there were, in terms of quality, the professional institutes for hotel and catering services (Scuole alberghiere), present in all Italian Regions, and the professional institutes for commercial and tourism services. There was no higher education, but, in the end, a tourism system that was family-organized did not feel the lack of it. The ’70s. Tourism becomes an industry In the seventies, a structural crisis began to affect ItalianTourism, not in isolation but in relation to the evolution of the global tourism market. In Italy, tourism was still an organized family business. In the rest of the world it had begun to be organized in an “industrial” way. From a regulatory point of view, the seventies are a decade of particular importance. It is in the early 1970s that the transfer to the Italian Regions of the