CASA COSTA FOUNDATION ETS
When hospitality becomes responsibility
Tourism as we know it has reached a breaking point. It consumes faster than it regenerates. It turns identities into folklore. It creates inequality and empties communities. Our response to this crisis is Casa Costa Foundation ETS: the tool through which hospitality stops being just a service and becomes concrete action for change.
Not charity. Regeneration.
Casa Costa Foundation is not a “social project” for display. It is not marketing disguised as goodwill. It is a conscious choice of coherence. It is where we prove, through actions, what we declare in words:
that regenerative tourism is possible. That hospitality can give back more than it takes. That every experience can leave territories, people and communities better than it found them.
How we work
We do not provide assistance. We do not arrive with ready-made solutions. We work with people, not for people. Together, we build projects that change starting conditions, create autonomy and avoid dependency. Every action must shift behaviours over time, not seek quick visibility. The Foundation was established in 2007 and for eighteen years has worked internationally: Tibet, Afghanistan, Uganda, Ethiopia, India, Nepal. Today, we are progressively focusing our efforts on our own territories – South Tyrol, Tuscany, Italy – for three clear reasons: direct responsibility (here we meet communities face to face every day), measurable impact (we can truly see what changes, return and verify), and coherence (regenerative tourism must begin where we practise hospitality). Some international projects continue, because relationships built over time deserve respect. We do not abandon. We accompany towards autonomy.
How to support us
The Foundation exists thanks to those who choose responsibility: guests who do not simply consume but want to inhabit stories, team members who actively contribute to a system that regenerates,
suppliers who share values, not just contracts, territorial partners – social cooperatives, anti-violence centres, schools, associations – who walk alongside us.
We do not collect benefactors. We build relationships that last. We do not ask for alms. We invite shared responsibility. Because no one wants to be saved. Everyone wants to be recognised, seen, listened to. Everyone wants to be able to say: I made it on my own, because someone trusted me.
Casa Costa Foundation ETS
We operate as a non-profit organisation. Every project is born from authentic relationships. They are real stories, of real people, in real places. And every day, together with those who support us, we write a new one.