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What is offered, then, is a trip which proposes in the wine industry what in fact has already been happening for a few years the branch of the olive harvest: there are in fact many tourists who come to Italy to participate in the olives collection and then return home with their own jar of oil, strictly home made. For Salento, therefore, the harvest for tourists could really turn into a magic formula, useful not only to travelers but also - and especially –to the territory.
Promoting the development of experiential tourism for Salento actually means on the one hand to push in the direction of the seasonal adjustment of tourism flows, and on the other hand to offer new job opportunities directly coming from the territory. The emergence of a new approach to agriculture is increasing, by encouraging young people to think it (or rather, re-think it) in modern terms, that is as a business sector. Creating a link between agriculture and tourism, therefore, gives new and increasingly vital responses to the crisis.Utopia? Quite the contrary, data say. It appears that in the universities of Puglia, the inscriptions on the faculties of agriculture have increased by forty percent: a wise choice, if you think that eighty percent of graduates are then able to find a job.