Sustainable Tourism Law

TOWARD A REGIONAL SUSTAINABLE TOURISM 825 without imposing the legal form to be used, and allows participants the freedom to choose the type of partnership that best suits the objectives identified 24 . It states that agreements can be stipulated between public bodies, business networks 25 , tourist consortia 26 , business organizations, trade associations, consumer associations registered in the regional list and other players in the chain of attractiveness, such as tourism systems. The positive nature of the standard, as a critical factor for the success of sustainable tourism, is grasped not only in having incentivized private public cooperation, but above all in not having created legal constraints for the aggregation of the subjects, which can in some way limit their operations. For the Lombard legislator, therefore, the public administration must maintain a proactive role in encouraging sustainability projects, which are then put in place by forms of cooperation with and between individuals, especially considering that tourism is mainly made up of small or very small businesses, which need coordination, but which are able to autonomously implement virtuous models for sustainable tourism. If the LombardyRegion is a good example of sustainable tourismdevelopment, not least the other Italian regions. Not geographically distant from Lombardy, Piedmont also embraces the objective of a tourism reform that mainly takes into account the sustainability of tourism, recognizing in this an instrument for its longevity; thus, it promotes the development of tourist-oriented areas, the revitalization of declining tourist areas, the qualitative improvement of strong tourist areas; in order to promote 24 Articles 8, 9 and 10 of the regional law. 25 The collaboration between companies based on contractual relationships in Italy can be expressed through: association in participation, assets destined for a purpose, temporary associations of companies, consortiums, joint ventures, networks of companies, EEIG. With the network contract, more entrepreneurs pursue the goal of increasing, individually and collectively, their innovative capacity and their competitiveness on the market and to this end they are obliged, on the basis of a common network program, to collaborate in predetermined forms and areas related to the exercise of their businesses or to exchange information or services of an industrial, commercial, technical or technological nature, or to jointly exercise one or more activities falling within the scope of their business. The network contract represents, independently of tourism, a form of coordination between companies facilitated by the discipline. In the tourism sector, incentive network programs must be consistent with projects aimed at achieving objectives specifically identified by the dm. 8 January 2013 implementing the art. 66 d.l. 83/2012, to allow a rigorous selection of eligible initiatives. For an analysis of business networks see: D. Scarpa, La nuova impresa tra integrazione, patrimonialità e comunicazione, Naples, 2011. 26 For a general analysis of the consortium contract, see: M. Sarale, Consorzi e società consortili, in G. Cottino- M. Sarale – R. Weigmann, Società di persone e consorzi, Milano, 2004, p. 407; R. Franceschelli, Consorzi per il coordinamento della produzione e degli scambi art. c.c. 2602- 2620, in Scialoja – Branca (edited by), Commentario al codice civile, Bologna 1992.