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Opportunities and Potentialities of Industrial Tourism Based on New Experiences in the Puglia Region, Italy
No full textToday, developing new business models is a widespread practice, which consists of identifying and implementing innovation, to create value for customers, support growth, and promote access to new markets. In particular, this phenomenon also involves the tourism and hospitality industries; in these sectors, innova¬tions may concern products (e.g., new hotel services or new attractions), sources of supply (new niche opera¬tors), new markets, and new ways of organizing businesses.
In particular, tourism has experienced expansion and diversification, making it one of the largest econom¬ic sectors in the world. In this context, industrial tourism represents a possible development of new business models in the tourism sector. Industrial tourism can be defined as visits to sites that enable residents and tour¬ists to learn about operational activities through visits to, and tours of, active businesses and corporate mu¬seums founded by companies. Industrial tourism can help active businesses improve their corporate image, while also promoting local areas where the production unit is located. World Tourism Organization has put its attention to industrial tourism since it is a new way to promote the destinations through historical, artistic, and cultural heritage, archaeological sites, archives, business museums, eco-museums, and the opening of companies to the public when the companies decide to open the doors to visitors during their daily activities.
Through an industrial tourism approach, there are innovative ways to enjoy a destination, both as a rediscov¬ery of industrial archeology and as an awareness process of knowledge on the production processes in the past or the present. In this way, the aim could be promoting industrial tourism through sites of industrial ar¬chaeology (linked to buildings that are symbols of the past manufacturing of the territory), industrial produc¬tion, crafts, and traditional production processes (wine, beer, pasta, bread, dairy products). These sites should be able to excite, to tell a story, a city, or a trade, to transfer the identity and history of the local area, but also its habits and traditions.
Industrial tourism is a growing phenomenon in Italy, especially in Puglia, which is an Italian area, character¬ized by relevant historical, artistic, cultural, and natural heritage. This heritage takes shape in different expres¬sions connected with industrial tourism too, like craftsmanship, sculpture, restoration, dressmaking, food and wine products (especially bread, wine, oil, and beer).
Through this approach, the “Made in Italy” brand would become more attractive in these territories, as well as a way to develop new markets and increase the marketing of local products. This aspect matches with better promotion of companies and industrial archeologic sites (history, supply chains, production processes, places, tools, territory, and products), as well as the lifestyle, the productions, and the people who identify the territory.
Our work aims at conceptualizing industrial tourism, through an analysis of the emerging business models, both from a literature review and some cases and concrete experiences. More specifically, concerning the con¬crete experiences, the focus will be on three cases in Puglia. In the empirical analysis, we will study the devel¬opment of industrial tourism projects, considered offered services, target audiences, promotion techniques, strategic choices made by management, and the potential effects. The research method is based on multiple case studies, through analysis, direct observation, and research interviews with the people involved in indus¬trial tourism projects.
The expected results of this work are the development of a framework of opportunities that the promotion of industrial tourism could favor in a local tourism context: the businesses of a local area could have greater visibility and some activities could be more easily marketed, increasing new sales forms and new markets (for example e-commerce).
Moreover, this new kind of tourism also implies new challenges for the companies involved in industrial tour¬ism processes: new staff is necessary, and it should be able to interface with tourists; it should be involved in welcoming and organizing tourism events, thus creating new professional skills, but potentially new jobs too.
The tourism companies, like travel agencies, could be involved in these processes because they could have new specific targets, interested in experiencing this form of tourism, which could favor the participation of organized and school groups
Treni turistici e storici, valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale locale e sviluppo dei servizi turistici in Puglia
No full textTourist railways and historic trains is now a worldwide phenomenon with different forms and methods, joined by elements of economic, environmental and social sustainability. The tourist interest has been amplified by two ‘multiplier’ factors in line with market trends: ‘train travel’ as an “experience” and the “experience” to be enjoyed along the route or at the destinations (i.e. excursions, meetings, activities, workshops, events, stories). The intention is to demonstrate that the goal for a tourist destination that operates tourist trains is to achieve a coherent offer capable of integrating these two "multipliers".
In 2020 (declared ‘Tourist Train Year’ in Italy), railway mobility is now perceived as an important tourism asset. And the revival of the tourism industry (within the broader framework of the international economy) will have to take this into account, after the current crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The demand connected to tourist railways and touristic trains is growing strongly both in the countries with the longest tradition and in Italy, where, in the last two years, there have been significant numbers of passengers, turnover and related activities being developed. Even in Puglia, where tourist railway lines are not currently active, their enormous potential could be exploited due to their unique characteristics that are distinguishable from the existing local historical railways that spread throughout the territory and by the wide cultural heritage, by the synergy with the paths, the cycle routes and the paths for trekking and horse riding. This paper identifies some strategic nodes related to programming activities; the business model and management choices, the planning of territorial marketing, the creation and development of attractions and enhanced itineraries, events, paths, characterized by themes and passions. The investment in this new form of tourism will be useful to the community and easily pay back the ‘start-up’ and operating costs. Starting from the existing cultural heritage (composite, widespread and fragmented) with low levels of accessibility, the process towards the desired objectives and impacts is defined
Treni turistici e storici, valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale locale e sviluppo dei servizi turistici in Puglia
No full textTourist railways and historic trains is now a worldwide phenomenon with different
forms and methods, joined by elements of economic, environmental and social sustainability.
The tourist interest has been amplified by two ‘multiplier’ factors in line with market trends:
‘train travel’ as an “experience” and the “experience” to be enjoyed along the route or at the
destinations (i.e. excursions, meetings, activities, workshops, events, stories). The intention is
to demonstrate that the goal for a tourist destination that operates tourist trains is to achieve a
coherent offer capable of integrating these two "multipliers". In 2020 (declared ‘Tourist Train
Year’ in Italy), railway mobility is now perceived as an important tourism asset. And the
revival of the tourism industry (within the broader framework of the international economy)
will have to take this into account, after the current crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The demand connected to tourist railways and touristic trains is growing strongly both in the
countries with the longest tradition and in Italy, where, in the last two years, there have been
significant numbers of passengers, turnover and related activities being developed. Even in
Puglia,where tourist railway lines are not currently active, their enormous potential could be
exploited due to their unique characteristics that are distinguishable from the existing local
historical railways that spread throughout the territory and by the wide cultural heritage, by
the synergy with the paths, the cycle routes and the paths for trekking and horse riding. This
paper identifies some strategic nodes related to programming activities; the business model
and management choices, the planning of territorial marketing, the creation and development
of attractions and enhanced itineraries, events, paths, characterized by themes and passions.
The investment in this new form of tourism will be useful to the community and easily pay
back the ‘start-up’ and operating costs. Starting from the existing cultural heritage (composite,
widespread and fragmented) with low levels of accessibility, the process towards the desired
objectives and impacts is defined
Tourist and Historical Trains, Enhancement of Local Heritage and Development of Services for Tourism in Puglia
No full textTourist railways and historic trains is now a worldwide phenomenon with different forms and methods, joined by elements of economic, environmental and social sustainability. The tourist interest has been amplified by two ‘multiplier’ factors in line with market trends: ‘train travel’ as an “experience” and the “experience” to be enjoyed along the route or at the destinations (i.e. excursions, meetings, activities, workshops, events, stories). The intention is to demonstrate that the goal for a tourist destination that operates tourist trains is to achieve a coherent offer capable of integrating these two "multipliers".
In 2020 (declared ‘Tourist Train Year’ in Italy), railway mobility is now perceived as an important tourism asset. And the revival of the tourism industry (within the broader framework of the international economy) will have to take this into account, after the current crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The demand connected to tourist railways is growing strongly both in the countries with the longest tradition and in Italy, where, in the last two years, there have been significant numbers of passengers, turnover and related activities being developed. Even in Puglia,where tourist railway lines are not currently active, their enormous potential could be exploited due to their unique characteristics that are distinguishable from the existing local historical railways that spread throughout the territory and by the wide cultural heritage, by the synergy with the paths, the cycle routes and the paths for trekking and horse riding. This paper identifies some strategic nodes related to programming activities; the business model and management choices,
the planning of territorial marketing, the creation and development of attractions and enhanced itineraries, events, paths, characterized by themes and passions.
The investment in this new form of tourism will be useful to the community and easily pay back the ‘start-up’ and operating costs. Starting from the existing cultural heritage (composite, widespread and fragmented) with low levels of accessibility, the process towards the desired objectives and impacts is defined
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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