Saverio Francesco Bertolucci

Saverio Francesco Bertolucci

Saverio Francesco Bertolucci

Saverio Francesco Ber­to­lu­cci stud­ied inter­na­tion­al tour­ism & leis­ure at Uni­versità di Bologna, Italy and sus­tain­able tour­ism devel­op­ment at Aal­borg Uni­ver­sity, Den­mark.

A busi­ness devel­op­ment spe­cial­ist with VDB Lux­ury Prop­er­ties in Bar­celona, Spain, the quad­ri­lin­gual Itali­an is inter­ested in des­tin­a­tion man­age­ment, the exper­i­ence eco­nomy, and cus­tom­er care. Saverio says that he has a “per­son­al pas­sion for social sus­tain­ab­il­ity, remote tour­ism, and co-creation”.

He pre­vi­ously worked in admin­is­tra­tion with Alcam­bar­celona.

For real: Barcelona’s housing crisis caused by anti-hospitality policy, not tourism

November 17, 2024

What caused Barcelona's housing crisis? Tourism? Or anti-tourism policy? El Pórtico de la Lavandera, Park Güell, Barcelona, Spain. Image by LoggaWiggler (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/park-g%C3%BCell-gaud%C3%AD-5238/

Prop­erty man­age­ment pro­fes­sion­al Saverio Francesco Ber­to­lu­cci shares his views on Bar­celon­a’s hous­ing crisis and the anti-tour­ism polit­ics at play in his adop­ted home city.  Pub­lished in col­lab­or­a­tion with Tourism’s Hori­zon: Travel for the Mil­lions, a “Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner, it’s Mr Ber­to­lu­c­ci’s sev­enth “GT” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] On the anti-tour­ism radar The most […]

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Prof Valeria Minghetti on peer review, overtourism, regenerative tourism, and how to succeed


Professor Valeria Minghetti: "[B]e curious. Never stop asking yourself questions. Curiosity and the desire to find solutions is what makes a difference ..."

“Nev­er stop ask­ing your­self ques­tions. Curi­os­ity and the desire to find solu­tions is what makes a dif­fer­ence,” accord­ing to Valer­ia Minghetti. Such an atti­tude will take young­sters a long way in travel & tour­ism, she reck­ons. And it must be redoubled at the very highest levels of aca­demia and industry. Saverio F Ber­to­lu­cci inter­viewed Prof Minghetti […]

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Emil Kukalj on balanced tourism, overtourism, ideology, pragmatism, and possibility


Emil Kukalj on balanced tourism, overtourism, pragmatism, and possibility

Emil Kukalj reck­ons ideo­logy is only use­ful if it is action­able and leads to net pos­it­ive res­ults. Saverio F Ber­to­lu­cci inter­viewed Mr Kukalj for a Tourism’s Hori­zon Inter­view. For this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Mr Ber­to­lu­cci reflects. [The full tran­script is on Substack.] Who is Emil Kukalj? I was delighted to dis­cuss research and devel­op­ment with an estab­lished figure […]

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Pablo Torres on revenue, volume, value, and the keys to success in tourism

January 11, 2024

Pablo Torres. "Learn. Travel. Dare!"

Can travel & tour­ism des­tin­a­tions learn some­thing from rev­en­ue man­agers about max­im­ising value out of any giv­en volume? Pablo Torres par­ti­cip­ated in a Tourism’s Hori­zon Inter­view. For this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, the inter­view­er Saverio Francesco Ber­to­lu­cci sum­mar­ises the high­lights. [The full tran­scripts of the Tourism’s Hori­zon Inter­views are avail­able on Substack.] Who is Pablo Torres? Pablo Torres is a […]

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Michele Sambaldi on technology, overtourism, sustainability, & connectivity

November 21, 2023

Michele Sambaldi on technology, overtourism, sustainability, & connectivity

Michele Sam­baldi stresses the need to keep one’s prom­ises in order to suc­ceed in hos­pit­al­ity and tour­ism. He also notes the con­tra­dic­tions inher­ent in dis­cus­sions around over­tour­ism, sus­tain­ab­il­ity, infra­struc­ture, and devel­op­ment.  Mr Sam­baldi par­ti­cip­ated in a Tourism’s Hori­zon Inter­view. For this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, the inter­view­er Saverio Francesco Ber­to­lu­cci sum­mar­ises the high­lights. [The full tran­scripts of the Tourism’s […]

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‘No man is an island’: Let’s talk tourism and transportation infrastructure

February 28, 2023

Let's talk transport, specifically tourism and transportation infrastructure. Image from the Faroe Islands by Annie Spratt (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/-1978llE0FE

Travel & tour­ism and trans­port­a­tion infra­struc­ture are inex­tric­ably linked. The former is almost wholly depend­ent on the lat­ter.  As stake­hold­ers in travel, tour­ism, leis­ure, and hos­pit­al­ity, do we take for gran­ted how we move from place to place? Saverio Francesco Ber­to­lu­cci shares his thoughts in the first in a series of “Good Tour­ism” Insights ini­ti­ated by […]

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