by Sofia Lorenzini
In the last years the barter is back to being used always more by all people who want to save money and at the same time to have a more human trade. For this reason the website www.bed-and-breakfast.it has promoted the initiative Barter Week, to be held from 19 to 25 November 2012, for the fourth time.
The Barter Week is also affiliated to the European Week for Waste Reduction 2012, they both aim to improve the quality of our lives with more sustainable habits and trades. The B&B can promote and spread initiatives related to their management, while participants of the European Week for Waste Reduction can become travellers aware of the Italian B&B resources linked to the territory and the quality of life.
The increasing number of Italian Bed and Breakfast, over 2000 currently, affiliated with www.bed-and-breakfast.it will be ready to make you stay in their facilities in exchange for goods or services. Throughout all the Barter Week there will be no money payments, in order to push both the guest and the operator to focus on the human aspect of hospitality and the opportunity to exchange experiences and expertise. With the help of the crisis, barter is making us rediscover the value added to the simple holiday of a cultural exchange experience. The initiative also encourages the imagination of travellers with offers to the B&B, most of all the creation of photo, videos and websites.
Travellers have three ways to search for a sustainable holiday: they can go to the official website www.settimanadelbaratto.it, choose the place to visit and contact the manager; they can look at the "Lista dei Desideri dei Gestori“ (Wish List Managers) and find an offer that suits them; or they can propose their own barter to all regional or Italian B&B. In the section “Proposte dei Viaggiatori” (Proposals Travelers) you can enter your offer of barter.
If you're a B&B and you want to partecipate you have to add to the list on the website www.bed-and-breakfast.it.
There is also a Facebook page www.facebook.com/settimanadelbaratto which currently has more than 73,000 fans, growing at a rate of 500 per day, constantly busy with offers and requests for exchange.
From the words of the promoters: "With the Barter Week you can spend a weekend out of town and discover Italy off-season creating new friendly relations based on respect and trust. You can make up a different holiday and have plenty of human contact, exchanges of experience and professionalism going back to the origins of hospitality and gratitude. Save on the cost of a holiday embracing the philosophy of "not what you have but what you are and you can do."
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