Because of its geographic position, located on the plateau of Isola Capo Rizzuto at a height of about 150mt above the sea level, right in the middle of the promontory that separates the Gulf of Taranto from the Gulf of Squillace, S. Anna S.p.A. Airport covers a natural user basin including the whole province of Crotone, the Jonian part of the province of Cosenza, a great part of the plateau of the Sila and those towns lying to the north of the Calabrian chieftown Catanzaro. This area counts an amount of about 450.000 residents, which is about the 25% of the whole calabrian population. For its peripheral status, Calabria could be considered the third island of Italy, moreover because of its hard orographic features that make the connection between the Jonian and the Tirrenian side difficult, the strengthening of the airports as a major instrument for social and economic development is necessary. Among all the developing economic activities tourism plays a major part. In the surroundings of the airport stand important tourist and hotel facilities, most of which rise in the area stretching from the archaeological area of Capo Colonna and the promontory of Capo Rizzuto, bounding the Marine reserve (one of the main Mediterranean marine areas).