Reviving Italy’s ‘Ghost Towns’ - a podcast by BBC World Service

Across the Italian countryside, villages are becoming deserted as people migrate to towns and cities. A sustainable tourism model known as the ‘Albergo Diffuso’ is attempting to reverse this trend. Tourist services, restaurants and hotels are spread around the village to encourage visitors to eat and stay with different families, boosting the local economy. We travel to the town of Santo Stefano di Sessanio in the Abruzzo region to meet the local business owners, restaurateurs and hoteliers profiting from the steady increase in tourism that this model has brought them.



Presenter: Harriet NobleReporter: Nicola Kelly



Picture Caption: Santo Stefano di Sessanio, a hilltop village that was once abandoned, now a thriving tourist townPicture Credit: Sextantio Albergo Diffuso

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