LIVING IN A POSTCARD

53' | English & Italian Versions | HD

For years tourism has sold us an idealized image of tourist destinations, creating economic growth but also distorting these postcard images. I live in the Cinque Terre, an Italian destination, and I wanted to see for myself these transformations. It is 2019, the problems caused by overtourism are clear but the administrators don’t have the means to front them.  To understand more I fly to London at the World Travel Market where experts teach how to balance tourism with residents and environment.  Then I go to Venice to meet a civic group of citizens protesting against the local administration. I go to Barcelona to see local administration battling against online tourism platforms. I see how the cruise ships generate huge flows of tourists which cannot be managed properly.  Covid-19 arrives in March 2020 and tourism stops, the problems associated with tourism look to have gone.  But have they really disappeared?

Produced by: Reassemblage Produzioni Audiovisive Di Christian Nicoletta

World excluding Spain (RTVE)