Sustainable tourism and land resources for non-motorized mobility

In Italy, non motorised vehicles network in extra-urban areas is fragmented. In the last years the growing demand of non motorised mobility for recreational and tourism purposes has implied long distance itineraries planned along natural, historical and cultural resource systems. Non motorised mobility could be a way to promote tourism rediscovering the territory. In fact it’s growing an interest for the renewal of dismissed railway tracks, military paths, banks and towpaths of rivers and channels, old linear infrastructures that are the safeguard of a territory. Such linearity should become the physical element to favour the use of the territory in a sustainable way through non motorised mobility. A greenway network, that is able to put people in contact with the territorial resources connecting them also with the historical centres and with the small tourist areas, implies a planning approach that takes care of the new social needs of the people in outdoor recreation and tourism.