1st World Congress on Wine Tourism and the Law more detailed definition; thus, we now refer to educational and informational functions aimed at the production of the wine and the dissemination of wine culture. Then, it is specified that the visits are those guided to vineyards or wineries and the initiatives can be educational, cultural and recreational, always performed in such facilities, including the grape harvest. Finally, tasting and marketing may be combined with the offering of food, as long as they are cold agri - food products, prepared by the farm itself, albeit manipulated or processed. This is a more detailed definition, but it includes the additional, new expressions of wine tourism, if ever contrasting them with catering; in fact, even Article 1 of the ministerial decree has a mere illustrative intent. As noted in the preamble of the aforementioned decree, the origins and potential of wine tourism as a cultural and economic phenomenon for the enhancement of high vocation areas are emphasized. After all, the World tourism organization itself, "in distinguishing the phenomenon of 'gastronomy tourism' from that of 'eno - tourism', configures (...) the latter as a subtype of the former"11. Then, per Article 1, paragraph five hundred, of Law No. 205 of 2017, wine tourism can be exercised upon the submission of the commencement report. With the filing of the required documents, the interested party can carry out its initiatives, without waiting for any measure of the administrative authority, but, if necessary, the latter can order the integration of what has been exhibited, with a subsequent control. However, a contact with the public entity from the urban planning viewpoint is needed for the possible verification of the premises. Article 2, first paragraph, of the ministerial decree sets additional parameters. For example, there is a need for weekly or seasonal opening 11 See Claroni, Il turismo del vino quale turismo culturale ed esperienziale e strumento di promozione e valorizzazione territoriale, loc. cit., 43 ff..
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