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Tourism Connectivity and Spatial Complexity: A Widening Bi-dimensional Arena of Urban Tourism Research
No full textThis chapter outlines the frontiers of the city tourism debate and highlights
the emerging analytical issues that are widening the urban tourism research
agenda. It provides an updated frame for tourism research by attempting to underline
the urban character of travelling and, hence, to overcome the view of city
tourism as a negligible element in the process of urban and economic development.
The chapter is based on a review of academic papers and books, with particular
attention paid to recent publications. It advocates a shift of perspective in urban
tourism research, which is explained as a change of the unit of analysis for
observation in the field and discussed from both a spatial and a conceptual viewpoint.
This provides a starting point for future research projects, acknowledging the
need for a greater sophistication of the cognitive tools used to analyse the contemporary
urban tourism phenomenon
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
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
PLACE BRANDING. PERCEZIONE, ILLUSIONE E CONCRETEZZA
No full textIl libro affronta il tema conosciuto in ambito internazionale come place branding, un fenomeno che ha coinvolto città, regioni e paesi a livello globale, diffondendo prassi di produzione della marca territoriale. Una ricercata internazionalizzazione dei territori nel quadro di una competizione globale per l’attrazione di investitori, turisti e talenti fa da sfondo alla rapida diffusione del place branding, così come il cambiamento del modo di comunicare e, in qualche caso, di costruire le politiche di sviluppo economico territoriale. Il testo analizza questo fenomeno nella sua evoluzione, passando in rassegna una serie di casi internazionali e mettendo a fuoco gli elementi cruciali delle politiche di branding, nonché le loro problematicità. Una riflessione organica sul place branding è oggi necessaria, in un momento cruciale nell’evoluzione della materia a seguito di forti ripensamenti negli studi di branding sulla logica con cui si produce la marca: un ripensamento dovuto alle nuove tecnologie, all’utilizzo intensivo dei social media e al radicale cambiamento nelle architetture di governance della marca, con un ruolo sempre più necessario e critico di una molteplicità di attori
Building from scratch? An “inner connectivity” framework for soft urban tourism development
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to define a framework for urban tourism development, providing a
rationale for tourism planners pursuing a competitive, sustainable and inclusive tourism destination model for
urban settings.
Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual framework is proposed, discussed and exemplified in a
specific geographical context.
Findings – The soft urban tourism development framework adopts a place-based approach to tourism
destination building and suggests an integration method grounded in tourism urbanicity.
Research limitations/implications – The proposed tourism development model is based on theoretical
premises. Empirical research should test the potential and pitfalls of this approach.
Practical implications – The proposed framework is a cognitive tool for strategy making in those cities that
either need to radically re-envision city tourismor are attempting to build an urban tourismdestination from scratch.
Originality/value – The paper contributes to the urban agenda in tourism studies. It proposes a framework
emphasising the urban character of tourism and exploiting the multifunctionality of urban contexts for
competitive niche tourism development
The Cultural Branding Matrix: framing the relation between cultural institutions and city branding
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DARK, RECONSTRUCTION AND RESTORED HERITAGE: MODELS OF CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT IN POST-DISASTER CONTEXTS
No full textIn post-disaster contexts the conventionally perceived
notion of time is challenged. A disaster turns the
contemporary into history, the built environment into ruins
and hence into an archaeological landscape, and
everyday life into memories of the past. In this context,
this paper focuses on cultural heritage and tourism
management. By reviewing and discussing the relevant
literature, it frames three time-based heritage tourism
models, i.e. Dark Heritage Tourism, Reconstruction
Heritage Tourism, and Restored Heritage Tourism.
Further research should explore these heritage tourism
management models and their potential combination in a
heritage tourism lifecycle, in order to understand whether
and to what extent post-disaster contexts may be capable
of experimentation with and exploration of tourism
development opportunities, in the face of the complexities
of (not only physical) reconstruction processes
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