Itinerant tourism is:

Itinerant tourism means campers, caravans, tourist buses, cars,

motor cycles, bicycles, trekking.

The caravan is a car

Since 1992 CAMPERS  (also known in Italy as autocaravans) are assimilated to motor vehicles in Italy for the purposes of road circulation (Codice della Strada, article 54).

CARAVANS (also known in Italy as roulottes) are assimilated for purposes of road circulation to trailers (Codice della Strada, article 56)

Itinerant tourism is active 365 days every year

The increase in income, in free time and the development of the transport system have transformed tourism into an activity that lasts 365 days per year. People try to escape the quotidian and to extend their social contacts  so as to pass from the concept of “live your holiday day by day” to that of “live a day of holiday”, adding value to the cultural and economic aspects of the places visited.

The camper favours ecological tourism

The camper, with its tanks for used water is an autonomous vehicle and no public hygiene problem can result from its use away from the camping grounds. As in all other tourist sectors, the behaviour of some may fall outside the law, but this can never be extended to form a category of camper drivers. The family traveling in a camper enjoys the landscape and leaves it in the same condition in which it has found it.

The camper means families

On average three people travel in each camper: 9% of users are pensioners and 30% of campers carry a domestic animal on board.

The camper means solidarity

7% of camper drivers use their vehicle a prosthetic help by transporting a handicapped person who may, thus, enjoy the landscape with equal dignity and equal opportunity.

The camper means security

Any family traveling or staying on board a camper is easily identifiable. Their presence there helps to control the surrounds, since they are in a position to inform the police, by mobile phone, of any criminal act which may take place where they are parked

Itinerant Tourism also means Civil Protection

The infrastructures useful for the parking of campers and tourist buses (third age tourism, school tourism, etc …):

1) Distinct parking lots or circumscribed parking spaces within an existing parking lot with specific sections destined for the parking of campers and caravans;

2) Rest areas equipped and surrounded by adequate parking areas reserved for caravans and campers. The parking should allow for the occupation of space external to the vehicle and for  an indeterminate length of time, except when municipal regulations apply, in places such as municipal camping grounds, or private or public grounds with minimal infrastructure;

3) Equipped multifunctional areas suitable for parking vehicles and other cultural, tourist or economic activities;

are also useful to resident citizens and to the Civil Protection operators in cases of natural or other disasters.