While I was wandering on the net I happened on the site of art and culture that I can count as my favorite, that of the magazine Art Tribune, and between exhibitions and famous and emerging artists I noticed that there is also so much talk of tourism and its effects on the works, about museums, about artistic heritage in general.
There is so much talk of mass tourism, on tourists who sometimes are not really examples of bon ton and good education and how and what to do to protect our cultural heritage from those who use it only as a background for some video or some photos without any respect for art and history.
I talked about it in my previous article on mass tourism and I see that the problem of how to manage crowds of tourists who came just for the time of a photo and ready to “consume” art as if they were in a supermarket worries, and so, even the experts and the municipalities themselves who are trying to combine hospitality and respect for the works of art.
Mass tourism is a dilemma that puts on the one hand the good results of an economy that needs visitors and on the other the need to protect and preserve art for us and especially for future generations. In this regard I leave here an interview with Patrizia Asproni that analyzes the phenomenon of so-called over tourism with wisdom and lucidity, with words that make us think and reflect on social networks that sometimes propose a stereotyped and false image of the world around us.
I leave you the link and wish you good reading. For whatever you write in the comments, it will be interesting to read them and maybe open a debate.
link: https://www.artribune.com/turismo/2023/08/citta-italiane-flussi-turistici/
P.S. For those who do not know she, I also put here a small biography of Patrizia Asproni. https://www.artribune.com/author/patriziaasproni/
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