The Development and Financial Sustainability of a Tourist Network for a Coastal Region

This study springs from a reflection on the concept of the Slow Network as a tool to strengthen the connection between a territory and its inhabitants, through the rediscovery of the agro-environmental, landscape, historical, artistic, and cultural value of each territory. Creating a slow network means utilising slow means of mobility, thus creating a “greenway” to give life to an ecomuseum and to cultural tourism in an eco-sustainable manner. The resources of an area are enhanced by creating a synergy between them, the tourism industry, and the local economy, which is dedicated to the promotion of an integrated tourism that involves rural areas, natural areas, eno-gastronomic tours, and thematic routes, according to the logic of self-sustainable development.In order to investigate the financial sustainability of Slow Networks, an ex-ante pre-financing cash flow analysis of a part of a project has been developed.