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People Fixing The World: Reviving Italy’s ‘Ghost Towns’

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Reviving Italy’s ‘Ghost Towns’

14/08/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - People Fixing The World, Reviving Italy’s ‘Ghost Towns’

An unusual hotel is helping to breathe life back into Italy’s abandoned villages

An innovative new weekly programme looking at how we can solve the world's problems.

Across the Italian countryside, villages are becoming deserted as people migrate to towns and cities. A sustainable tourism model known as the ‘Albergo Diffuso’ is attempting to reverse this trend. Tourist services, restaurants and hotels are spread around the village to encourage visitors to eat and stay with different families, boosting the local economy. We travel to the town of Santo Stefano di Sessanio in the Abruzzo region to meet the local business owners, restaurateurs and hoteliers profiting from the steady increase in tourism that this model has brought them.

Presenter: Harriet Noble
Reporter: Nicola Kelly

Picture Caption: Santo Stefano di Sessanio, a hilltop village that was once abandoned, now a thriving tourist town
Picture Credit: Sextantio Albergo Diffuso

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