Buy Tourism Online (BTO), an
online tourism expo, has reached an agreement with major Italian
"art cities" to help better manage tourism influxes for
sustainable tourism as well as share best practices for
improving the cities and joining forces into one system.
The memorandum of understanding within the network of the
"Great Italian Destinations for Sustainable Tourism" was signed
in Florence at the recent BTO expo there by the tourism
councillors of Florence, Naples, Milan, Venice, and Rome.
The agreement provides for implementation on an experimental
basis of a nationwide regulatory system that would establish a
registry for citizens offering tourist lodgings, as well as a
requirement for lodging agents, including those who operate only
online, to work only with lodgings properly listed in the
registry.
Another important part of the accord for the major art cities
is recognition of the tourism-lodging nature of short leases
that take place in urban contexts.
The five cities, together with the Italian Culture Ministry
MiBACT, are working on shared projects to manage tourist
influxes with systems of gathering, monitoring, and managing
data in real time to inform travelers in real time on places
that are the most crowded and consequently advising others.
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