The role of the marina system as a territorial system gateway

The cruise industry is becoming more and more a sector that attracts huge investments, where different actors, each day, seem to have a growing interest in decisions involving new forms of productive organization and working arrangements for the implementation of innovative strategic choices. The main players in the port sector, nowadays, are just the Port Authority that may play a role in the development of cruise traffic in ports and tourist flows to the "destination" where they are located, both in terms of quantity and quality, at national and international level. In recent years, it has been spreading the belief about the strategic importance of the marina for the development of a tourist destination, able to accommodate modern and functional facilities that facilitate accessibility, and that are able to offer, to the final customer, a tourist complex supply. The intention is to create the conditions in which the coupling of the cruise sector in a port area is a generator or an opportunity to make sustainable interventions in the urban such as to have those positive multi-field effects over large portions of the port city and surrounding area.