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Regions, places and cities in the mental maps of Italian entrepreneurs: the territorial attractiveness of Italy
No full textThe ability to attract investments, firms, human capital, workers entrepreneurs, talented people, and so on, is a territorial asset more and more decisive nowadays. Toghether with territorial competitiveness it is likely to become a key of dimension that can contribute to explain the economic development of regions and cities.
In the chapter is presented the main result of a web questionnaire survey conducted in the context of this research line, aimed at studying the mental maps of Italian entrepreneurs and represents the Italian case study of an international research project
Il contributo della sharing economy allo sviluppo turistico di aree periferiche. Il caso del fenomeno Airbnb nel territorio delle dolomiti venete.
Full text linkUrban tourism: performance and strategies in eight European cities
No full textLeo van den Berg, Jan van der Borg, Jan van der Meer.x, 226 p. ; 23 cm
Tourism in Venice: mapping overtourism and exploring solutions
No full textVenice is a tourist destination par excellence. Not surprisingly, therefore, the enormous number of visitors that this unique city has to host each year: the most recent official estimate is about 28 million visitors a year (or 37 million in the metropolitan city), of which only 5 million arrive they are residential tourists who, with an average duration of 2.32 nights, generate almost 12 million overnight stay in registered tourist accommodation. There have been ups and downs in the last few decades, but the trend is definitely on the rise and the most alarming factor is the finding that between the two main segments that make up the Venetian tourism market, the one of hiking is confirmed to have always been of great long most dynamic of residential tourism. As a final result of these trends, as Bertocchi, Camatti, Giove and Van der Borg (2018) have shown, it is now evident that the number of people visiting Venice annually with the needs of the city as a whole is becoming a problem so worrying that it requires the development of even drastic solutions. If in Venice the first signs of excessive tourist pressure had already emerged in the 1990s, it is during the last decades, in particular following the continuous expansion of the total number of travelers worldwide, that a growing number of European cities have begun to feel the consequences of what is now called overtourism. In this context, Venice remains, however, once again an emblematic case and serves as an example with regard to the analysis of the phenomenon as well as the use of management solutions to support sustainable tourism development in a medium-sized art city
Place Marketing, Governance and Tourism Development. Or How to Design the Perfect Regional Tourist Board?
Full text linkThe principal scope of this paper is to reconstruct the chain-of-command that regards the implementation of a regional tourism development strategy, in particular the tourism marketing policy. Starting point of the analysis was the assumption that the quality of the governance of these organisations is one of the factors that may explain the success of a tourist destination. Thereto, an international comparative study into the role of the organizational structure, of organizing capacity and of governance on the effectiveness of tourism promotion and territorial marketing was organised. By comparing four different case studies, Catalunya (E), Rhone-Alpes (F), Scotland (UK) and Trentino (I), worst and best practices have been identified, and an answer to the question whether there exists such a thing as an ideally structured organisation that deals with territorial and tourism marketing at the regional level has been sought.Tourism Marketing, Governance, Regional Tourist Organisations, Tourism Policy
A Research Agenda for Urban Tourism
No full textThis timely Research Agenda explores and proposes critical lines of research to support understanding of the conditions under which urban tourism contributes to the development of urban systems, and what can be done to create and conserve these conditions. Chapters highlight conceptual discussions, concrete case studies and policy reviews to address the issues surrounding the economic, environmental and social impacts of tourism on cities
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