Le Mat’s social entrepreneurs would like tourism to be something more than spending free time and consuming new adventures, more than a specialized industry. We like tourism as an opportunity to restore, to return, to add value to the daily work and difficulties, to the inventions and extraordinary battles of all the persons living in the areas where also we live. We would like you to meet the people cultivating the soil with a lot of attention, those who develop their talents and cultures, those that want to change and fight against discrimination and exclusion, against the destruction of nature and community. We would like a tourism able to open the minds towards those who are different from us, a tourism where you meet people and can listen to the thousands of stories and cultures of a local community and where the community is curious to meet, to exchange and to welcome who comes from abroad, travelling and discovering unknown methods and thoughts and actions…
The social cooperative Cadore in the Cadore mountains if Italy despite the big financial crisis have managed to create many jobs.