The geography of tourism and leisure in Italy

The study of the geography of tourism in Italy has developed progressively over the last fifty years.The principal arguments of over two hundred specialist publications concern the tourist region, the place of geography in the study of tourism, the relations between tourism and land's organisation and the impact of tourism on the environment. Many regional and local studies have contributed to the more precise definition of the methodology and competence of this research field.The geography of leisure has been neglected because of the absence of an Italian equivalent to the term leisure and its consequent absence as a notion from Italian culture. The studies in this field are still at first attempt.