Territory's management and enhancement

ESTER CAPUZZO

The module aims to reconstruct the history of tourism from the unification of the Italian Kingdom to the end of the Second World War, the goal is to highlight the formation of national identity, the realization of the nationalization of the masses with tourist practices. In addition to outline the consensus reached by fascism at various levels of Italian society with travel in Italy, in Italian colonies or abroad organized by the organizations of the regime. The module aims to provide students with tools to understand the phenomenon of tourism from a historical point of view.

Expected learning outcomes: diachronic and in-depth knowledge of the development of tourism in Italy and abroad, awareness of the most significant tourism issues and ability of linguistic expression.

Knowledge of Contemporary Italian History (20th and 21st centuries).

Historical development of tourism (ancient age, medieval age and modern age)
Birth and development of the Grand Tour
English spa towns
Birth of the holiday towns
Discovery of the Mediterranean
Thermal cities in Italy
From the Grand Tour to the pleasure trip
Travel of the middle class
Travel of the Italian people during Risorgimento
Travel after the Italian unity
New practices: thermal tourism
New practices: bathing tourism
Italian Alpine Club
Italian Touring Club
Touring and nation building
Tourism during belle époque
Tourism and WWI
Tourism and the first postwar period
ENIT
Fascism and tourism
Political uses of tourism
OND and tourist practices
Battlefield tourism in Italy and Spain
Tourism in the annexed Italian territories after the First World War
Tourism in Italian colonies:
Libya
Rodi and Aegean Isles
AOI
Tourism and the second postwar period
Mass tourism
Tourism and non-European States
Postmodern Tourism

P. Battilani, Vacanze di pochi vacanze di tutti. L’evoluzione del turismo europeo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2009 (with the exception of chaps. I and VII)
E. Capuzzo, "Italiani visitate l'Italia". Politiche e dinamiche turistiche in Italia tra le due guerre mondiali (1918-1940), Luni, Milano 2019
The following essays contained in the volume are part of the exam bibliography: Vacanze romane. Interpretazioni e pratiche del turismo nella città eterna, a cura di E. Capuzzo, Roma, Nuova Cultura, 2022
a) A. Berrino, Il turismo a Roma nel Secondo dopoguerra, pp. 61-77
b) E. Capuzzo, Il turismo olimpico a Roma nel 1960, pp. 79-108
c) F. D’Angiolillo, C. Giantomasso, Pratiche di turismo responsabile a Roma. Le passeggiate di Migrantour all’Esquilino e a Tor Pignattara, pp. 135-161

Classes will be held in person, with the aid of slides and period films. Educational visits and classroom exercises will also be included.

Classes will be held in person, with the aid of slides and period films. Educational visits and classroom exercises are also planned.

The evaluation will be carried out with an oral exam.

What is the position of the liberal state towards the phenomenon of tourism?
What public institutions did fascism create to organize tourism?
What are the functions of Enitea?
What is meant by postmodern tourism?