The 30 and 31 May to Ancona will hold the fourth edition of the Adriatic Sea Forum



The 30 and 31 May next to Ancona, in the frame of the Vanvitelliana Grindstones, will hold the fourth edition of Adriatic Sea Forum - cruise, ferry, sail & yacht, itinerant international event dedicated to tourism by sea in the Adriatic devised that it is organized from Answers Tourism, society of search and advising to service of the tourist macro-industry, this year in partnership with the Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Centrale.

Been born with the objective to discuss by sea on the future development of tourism in the Adriatic, to facilitate the development of new projects common and to create occasions of encounter and networking for all the operators of the sections cruises you ferry and nautical (sail and engine), the new edition of the forum follows those svolgesi to Trieste (2013), Dubrovnik (Croatia, 2015) and Budva (Montenegro, 2017).

The appointment, to which they are attended beyond 200 participants, will be opened with the institutional salutes and with the presentation in preview of the new edition of Adriatic Sea Tourism Report, the relationship of search cured from Answers Tourism who give 2013 analyzes the flows, the dimensions, the nature and the directions of the tourist movements (cruises, ferries and by sea nautical - sail and engine) in the seven countries that appear on the Adriatic.

The structure of the event previews plenary sessions of argument and thematic deepenings on specific sections of interest that will alternate to presentations and interviews and face to face, completed this year from three technical tables in order to reason around the priorities to assign in order to facilitate the increase of everyone of the three sections followed from the forum. Between the personalities that will animate the various moments of the forum figure Thomas Boardley (general secretary CLIA Europe), Airam Díaz Pastor (president Med Cruise), Rodolfo Giampieri (president Autorità di Harbour Sistema of Mare Adriatico Centrale), Ivana Jelinich (president FIAVET), Evisi Kopliku (coordinator of the pillar Sustainable Tourism of strategy EUSAIR), Andreas Ntais (president Porto di Igoumenitsa), Ugo Patroni Griffi (president Autorità di Harbour Sistema of Mare Adriatico Meridionale), Kristijan Pavic (CEO AAA road service Club), Roberto Perocchio (president Assomarinas), Alessandra Priante (head of International Relations Office - Ministry of the Agricultural, alimentary, forest Policies and of tourism), Daniele Rossi (president Assoporti) and Antoni Tiò (president Barcelona Clúster Nautic).

Between the arguments that will be faced in the round tables, the sharing of chosen and actions that they could allow to accelerate the increase of the adriatic area through the maritime ones tourism, the priorities of participation and investment that the harbour authorities of the area are characterizing with reference to the various fleeting expressions of the traffic, the possibility contextually to pursue economic increase and protection of the atmosphere, the important fallen back for the territories generated from tourism of giga the yachts, the competitiveness of the ferries in a changed picture of the mobility offer and transport and the innovations that could characterize the crocieristica in the Adriatic in the near future.