Il vino ed i percorsi turistici in Calabria: potenzialità e prospettive

In the last decades, together to wine production, numerous connected activities and initiatives are developed, that have given life to new opportunities of growth and development of the sector and the income to it connected. The wine, connected with other elements tied to the territory as natural resources, culture, traditions, local uses, can constitute a fundamental factor of social and economic development of a territory whose areas maintain a particular tradition tied to the wine This explains the success of wine tourism, in which wine becomes object of interest together with all of this to it connected, as for instance the techniques of production, the places and the methods of production, the vines, the new varieties, etc.. In Italy around the wine it stirs a turn of business of around 8 million of European annual and the production of the period 2000/2004 have recorded a 4% increase. The "the wine's roads" they associate to the product "wine" a series of products and complementary services and, therefore, one perspective of development is tied up not only to the ability of vine entrepreneurs to know how to manage and to operate to the best in terms of product "wine", but, also to the availability and the use of different factors as lodge, restaurants, cultural events, activity of information, of communication, of promotion, of attraction, that, in partnership to the wine cellars, firms and so on, they allow the knowledge and the fruition of the wine. In Italy the roads of the wine are more than a hundred and their number it very quickly grows, but only few constitute some real tourist runs worthy of note and comparable to of the places of real tourist fruition on the wake of the Californian examples or French. A lot of these, in fact, formally exist only and are not operational not at all, missing, in the most greater part of the cases, the contents of the same, what posters, crossed equipped and connected to firms, places of production, wine cellars, restaurants, etc..In some of Italian region, the road of wine are constitute in territories that have some particular productions like production Denomination of Checked Origin and Guaranteed and Denomination of Checked Origin and Guaranteed (DCO and DCOG). In Calabria the surfaces invested to life for the production of wines amount to almost 13 thousand and 500 hectares and they constitute as soon as 2% of the total national and the surfaces for the production of wines DCO and regional DCOG represent as soon as the 1,2% of the national general surfaces to denomination of origin. Of these surfaces, a little more of 20% or rather 2.704 hectares, concerns the production of Denomination wines of Origin Checked on the total regional. The wine's Roads in Calabria are not operative not for the lack of a fit and ideal territory, but for the lack of economic resources on purpose destined to the purpose. It is necessary to put such an operational project to connect the productive structures into effect and to make her of the visitors available. All of this, after all, connects him to a sort of tourism that, in a lot of areas of the south of Italy, it is translated in an a form of tourism little assisted and hardly enjoyable.