Fuori Luogo. Rivista di Sociologia del Territorio, Turismo, Tecnologia Volume 7 – Numero 1 – Settembre 2020 - Semestrale ISSN: (Print) 2532-750X (Online) 2723-9608 Journal Page: http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/fuoriluogo/ Dreaming of Remoteness, Coping with Emptiness in Post-Lockdown (Under)Tourism Scenarios for the Inner Areas of Southern Italy: a Fieldwork Based Reflection Emilio Coccoa; Anna Farrell Minesb; Rita Salvatorec (a) Università degli Studi di Teramo, mail
[email protected]. (b) The American University of Rome. (c) Università degli Studi di Teramo. To cite this article: Cocco, E., Mines, A., Salvatore, R. (2020), Dreaming of Remoteness, Coping with Emptiness in Post- Lockdown (Under)Tourism Scenarios for the Inner Areas of Southern Italy: a Fieldwork Based Reflection, Fuori Luogo. Rivista di Sociologia del Territorio, Turismo, Tecnologia. volume 7 – numero 1/2020. Pp 53 - 68. DOI: 10.6092/2723- 9608/7124 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.6092/2723-9608/7124 Submission date: 21 July 2020. Revised: 29 August 2020. Published: 23 September 2020. ABSTRACT Dreaming of Remoteness, Coping with Emptiness in Post-Lockdown (Under)Tourism KEYWORDS Scenarios for the Inner Areas of Southern Italy: a Fieldwork Based Reflection Since the neo-liberal shift of the 1970s in world politics and economics, Italian inner areas have Remoteness, faced a seemingly endless crisis in terms of both economic weakness and social fragility. Inner Tourism, However, the sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis and its related travel restrictions could Lockdown, provoke an unexpected U-turn. Under new conditions, the physical and social remoteness of Social Dispersion, inner areas might attract people in search of places that boast COVID-19 safety measures, such Southern Italy as outdoor experiences and relatively vacant sites, as well as authentic experiences in food, nature and cultural heritage–places outside the standard tourist offer that stand apart from more popular and busier destinations and partake in a sort of “under-tourism”.