Franceschini, 2020 will be the year of the tourist train

(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 11 - "2020 will be the Year of the Trenoturist". The announcement was made by Dario Franceschini, Minister of Heritage, Cultural Activities and Tourism, in the course of the hearing of the Cameradei Deputati production activities.
"After 2016, the national year of the roads, the 2017 of the villages, the 2018 year of Italian food and the 2019 year of slow tourism - recalls the minister - it is now time to promote another form of tourism that allows the traveler to travel our country in sustainable way and along the historical lines of the railways, admiring magnificent landscapes and places of poignant beauty. There are 800 kilometers of disused railway lines and abandoned cheattraversano national parks, protected areas and dense territories history and culture ". "In 2020 we will invest to strengthen, promote and enhance this form of tourism - concluded Francesco Frini - responding to the need to govern the rapid growth of tourist flows that we will register in the next few years and that will not be able to concentrate only on the major cities of art, which are already experiencing phenomena of overcrowding and need to be protected. We need to promote sustainable tourism, made up of people who come to Italy to look for excellence and examine the fragility of our heritage ". (HANDLE).