The development glimpsed in tourism is currently stimulating the realization, reorganization and creation of parks, reserves, museums and archaeological areas. In order to obtain the best results the local administrations will have to get new territorial planing tools in which, compared to the past, cultural and environmental heritage should be better protected and valued so as to be able to constitute a tourism offer and increase the employment opportunities. The pursuit of a rural development btained through the design of routes and rural tourism proposals, widespread and relational, could save from damage and looting at least the significant resources of the territory.

Mapping and cataloging of local goods could then be the first step in a planning process of tourism development able to save what can be saved, through different degrees of protection depending on the scientific and touristic importance of the sites, to safeguard at least the percentage of territory that really counts, starting its recovery mabe thanks to youth involvement through local and international voluntary service, useful tourism initiatives such as school camps (field activity plus training), research camps (participation to field research), working camps (holiday in exchange of work).

The sketch shows how, through a process of research, identification, scheduling, and then redesign of the archaeological sites, continued or not by the creation of temporary and / or permanent exhibitions, revitalized by an animation activity, it's possible to give rebirth to the territory's ressources.

Sketch showing the contribution of archeology to territorial development:

Since 1999, the municipality of Campobello di Licata, and the local seat of the Archeoclub have launched the Kalat project, a project of valorization of the territory according to the criterions of sustainable and cultural tourism, in order to second the economical reconversion of Sicily by tourism, which will imply a new kind of territorial planning which won't be able to deal without a precise identification of environmental, cultural and achaeological goods that worth preservation and enhancement

Thanks to the survey activity, 75% of the territory have been recognized, and other 149 areas of archaeological interest have been identified from the prehistorical, greek, roman, byzantin and medieval periods so as to create new itineraries for cultural tourism.

The Kalat project also initiated, since the year 2000, a recovery and enhancement activity in the necropoli which is located in Iacopo Filippo's district, with an extensive use of local and most of all international voluntary and collaborated with the municipal Technical Office to realize the executive project of the «Parco antico Iachinu Filì» (Antic Park of Iachinu Filì) and to the development of the «Sistema dei Parchi» (Parks system) foregone in variant to the «Piano Regolatore Generale» (General regulating plan).