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Global Context, Policies and Practices in Urban Tourism: An Introduction
No full textTourism is undergoing fundamental changes with regard to market,
industry structure and the product itself; changes driven by an even more fundamental
transition to ‘post-modern’ patterns of consumption that makes tourism one
of the benchmarks of modes of production and consumption in the knowledge
economy. Tourism plays, quantitatively and qualitatively, an unprecedented role in
shaping economic development, while consolidated tourism models should rapidly
adapt themselves to a new and changing reality. This chapter introduces and provides
the background for the discussion developed in this book, which addresses
multiple interconnections between tourism and the city from a policy-oriented
research standpoint. After an overview of trends characterising city tourism in the
global context, the chapter focuses on Europe, where city tourism has been the most
dynamic tourism segment. However, besides EU engagement with the development
of a tourism policy framework, urban tourism seems to play a secondary role in the
European tourism vision, in which tourism is interpreted as a potential economic
alternative for lagging areas where other economic drivers have been historically
weak. Through discussion of possible explanations, the chapter develops an analysis
of the EU Urban Portal to outline tourism representation in connection with the
urban agenda of the European Union and concludes by presenting this book’s
structure
La politica regionale per l'innovazione tecnologica e il rafforzamento dell'area high-tech in Toscana. Contributi di analisi
No full textReluctant Innovators: Dynamic Capabilities and Digital Transformation of Italian Opera Houses in the Pandemic Crisis
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Le politiche dell'innovazione delle regioni italiane: limiti e opportunità della prospettiva federalista
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Urban Tourism and City Development: Notes for an Integrated Policy Agenda
No full textThis chapter draws conclusions by stressing that, through the wide
coverage of different perspectives, this book describes the ‘burst’ of the city tourism
concept, showing the several and relatively uncontrollable—and thus difficult to
manage—nuances of tourism(s) in the urban context. In particular, the chapter
discusses what tourism research is supposed to suggest to policymakers. It distinguishes
three plausible scenarios in which the weight of urban tourism in development
strategies may vary, i.e. marginal tourism, dominant tourism and surrogate
tourism, and articulates them by emphasising different features and variations in
how synergies between city tourism and urban development take place
Patterns of policy learning in the RIS3 processes of less developed regions
No full textThe implementation of the Smart Specialisation approach was expected to require an especially challenging commitment to policy learning in less advanced regions compared with advanced ones. This paper suggests a partially different analytical framework by discussing the relevance of path dependency in the design and implementation of Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3). The research question concerns the relationship between previous experiences in innovation policy also in less advanced regions and RIS3 policy processes. Based on the two case studies of Sicily and Apulia (Italy), the paper investigates in which way policy heritage contributed to the quality of processes and outcomes
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