The Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica EcotrailSicilia (EcotrailSicilia Amateur Sports Association), in collaboration with ACSI and under the patronage of the ARS – Sicilian Regional Assembly and the Department of Rural and Territorial Development of the Sicilian Region, organises sports events that include Trail Running, Trekking, and guided excursions within Sicily’s Parks and Nature Reserves.

The objectives that ASD EcotrailSicilia pursues go beyond the common practice of sport, and can be summarised as follows:

• to promote respect for the environment;
• to favour the promotion and protection of the territory;
• to favour the development of sustainable forms of tourism oriented towards the knowledge of territorial characteristics;
• to promote social, economic and naturalistic components for the benefit of local populations;
• to promote local handicraft, agricultural and gastronomic products;
• to contribute to creating the conditions for the promotion of a new entrepreneurship oriented towards the conservation of nature and the recovery of local historical assets;
• to favour the cultural exchange between the local realities involved in various ways in the organisation of the various Stages of the Circuit;
• to promote concrete solidarity initiatives.

EcotrailSicilia goes beyond sport, representing a new opportunity that identifies, in the activities carried out in Nature, one of the best ways to foster knowledge of it, promote respect for it and enhance its historical, cultural and human resources.