{"id":32708,"date":"2023-01-22T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sineglossa.it\/?post_type=progetto&p=32708"},"modified":"2026-01-25T09:15:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:15:37","slug":"bluetour","status":"publish","type":"progetto","link":"https:\/\/sineglossa.it\/en\/projects\/bluetour\/","title":{"rendered":"BLUETOUR"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Faro, Ancona\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Lesvos<\/strong>\u00a0are three Mediterranean coastal areas undergoing urbanistic, geographic and economic transformation.\u00a0On the one hand, Ancona and Faro suffer from the consequences of what is commonly known as\u00a0overtourism<\/strong>, i.e. the excessive presence of mass tourism in places unsuitable for hosting large crowds of people. On the other hand, Lesvos is at the centre of the phenomena of\u00a0immigration<\/strong>, a process in which new temporary citizens are affecting change on the social and cultural characteristics of the place they inhabit. All of them are also maritime landscapes facing challenges like adversities of climate change, waterfront pollution, soil erosion, growth of endangered species.<\/p>

Is it\u00a0possible to promote the uniqueness of those regions, the beauty of their cultural heritage, and the biodiversity of their coastal and marine ecosystem, without encouraging the spread of consumptive tourist practices that are harmful to the environment and local communities? Is it possible to\u00a0combine the visionary power of artists with the expertise of local cultural organisations<\/strong>\u00a0to build a different narrative of the environmental and cultural identity of Faro, Lesvos and Ancona? And how can this voice be used by tourism industries to design more sustainable tourism models?\u00a0<\/p>

BlueTour project was conceived as an\u00a0international partnership between a creative and cultural organisation, a non-profit organisation and a public administration<\/strong>, to build, together, a new approach to this challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The BLUETOUR project helps these places\u00a0redefine their identity by involving the inhabitants<\/strong>\u00a0in a process of recovering memory, reflecting on the emergencies of the present, and envisioning possible future scenarios and challenges.<\/p>

Through a capacity-building process aimed at local artists and operators, led by Sineglossa on the methodology of NONTURISM<\/a> community drafting, the project brings policy makers, cultural operators, artists, tourism operators and local communities of the three coastal areas into dialogue, and implements permanent and temporary artistic interventions that promote new itineraries of sustainable tourism for the enhancement of local and cultural heritage.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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