Project title: Project “The cruise business in Liguria: tourist flows, ports and creating value for the region”

Cost: 25,000 euro

Customer/PARTNER: Fondazione Carige

Start date and duration: May 2013 – May 2017 (48 months)

Brief description: The research project aims to highlight the economic and environmental effects that cruise flows produce in Liguria and in a strategic perspective, identify the essential drivers so that these flows translate into more value produced in the area; the aim of the research is to identify specific local policy indications, orient and reinforce the placement of Ligurian ports and ensure that cruise tourism creates economic value for the community and for the local productive fabric.