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标题：TOURISM IN PESCARA (ITALY): COMPETITIVENESS AND ATTRACTIVITY
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作者：Giacomo CAVUTA
期刊名称：GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites
电子版ISSN：2065-1198
出版年度：2011
卷号：1
期号：7
出版社：Oradea University Press
摘要：Pescara is a “young” city, that perhaps still participate, in part, to the underdevelopment of southern Italy, but since a few years this urban center represents the coupling to the Adriatic development model, creating a weld with the “third Italy”. This is the position and the interpretative key of the reasons for the growth of Pescara, a rural and military village that, without renouncing to the contributions of the traditional sectors, opened itself with enthusiasm to the industry, the market and the first forms of tourism; the city broke down the ancient fortifications and was projected towards the river - which became the port - and the pine forest, to reach the beach and the woods for the new recreational needs; this new urban center began to integrate its production with Castellammare. Shortly, Pescara built, during the end of the last century, the foundations for the conquest of the urban hegemony, in terms of population and services, along the middle Adriatic sea, beyond the Abruzzo administrative boundaries. So we can see a situation that evolves all the time with problems and imbalances, with increasing force and with the ability to mobilize all available resources and opportunities, if we watch this from a more detached point of view in order to insert the city dynamics at the mouth of the Pescara river in the regional and national level and if we adopt an appropriate method of comparison. Pescara, certainly, has many aspects of evolution in this direction: from industrial and commercial city became an interregional and international metropolitan node - thanks to new relationships with the opposite side of the Adriatic -, increasing its value in the tourism market. Pescara is not currently a tourism attraction of “pleasure” for foreigners, but it is an important business center for them. However It maintains importance, for the hinterland inhabitants, as summer resort destination for a touring day. In fact it is the only center in the region which is equipped with the facilities of a modern business city, but combined, and “sweetened” by the pleasures of a holiday destination (weather, events, nightlife, waterfront restaurants, etc.). It’s the place where all the tourist routes, to discover the region, start or end.
关键词：Pescara; tourism; urban growth; accessibility