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WICKED PROBLEMS IN ALPINE TRANSPORT: A SUSTAINABILITY GOVERNANCE APPROACH
No full textTransport is the main enabler of tourism, but also one of its main sources of environmental impact. This paradoxical condition is even more controversial if considering the reluctancy of policymakers to introduce traffic management strategies, as they fear possible drops in tourism demand. This chapter addresses the ‘tourism-traffic paradox’ as a wicked problem and explores adequate and efficient policy interventions to foster sustainable mobility in Alpine destinations, minimising rebound effects in tourism demand. The chapter is focussed on the exemplary case of the Dolomites World Heritage Site (WHS), as this Italian area has experienced a long-lasting process of evidence-informed decision-making in transport, with two pilot actions for traffic calming in 2017 and 2018. The main goal of those actions was to shift the modal choices of tourists, to optimise the traffic network use and to minimise environmental impacts. The policy interventions were rooted in a sustainability governance approach, that is, they were creating a government-led network of stakeholders, including several academic experts, involved in the transport planning and monitoring phase. Advantages and disadvantages of this government-led network to solve the tourism-traffic paradox are discussed in the chapter
Moratoria as Possible Governmental Regulations for Degrowth: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Bed Capacity Limit in the Local Media of South Tyrol (Italy)
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Bridging the science-policy gap in sustainable tourism: evidence from a multiple case study analysis of UNWTO INSTO sustainable tourism observatories
Full text linkWhile monitoring sustainable tourism (ST) has become popular in the
twenty first century, a clear implementation gap has been acknowledged
worldwide. This paper argues that the inadequate implementation might
be linked to a knowledge gap on procedures, approaches and instru-
ments to operationalise evidence-informed destination management.
Indeed, the routines and procedures to run an inter-institutional adaptive
management cycle at the interface between research organisations and
the tourism ecosystem are mostly unknown. Based on the identified
science-policy gap, this paper addresses the role of the UNWTO INSTO
observatories as innovative catalysts to co-create an adaptive transfor-
mation of the tourism system, i.e. to bridge indicator-based knowledge
production on sustainability performance, knowledge transfer and knowl-
edge use, and to foster concrete actions and a transformation at any
level. The catalytic role of INSTO observatories is explored by means of
an exploratory and qualitative study. A multiple case study was con-
ducted on selected observatories (Guanajuato in Mexico, Algarve in
Portugal, Sleman in Indonesia) to capitalise on the individual experiences
and identify strengths and challenges of different approaches to
evidence-informed decision-making procedures. Lessons learnt from the
case studies shed light on possible strategies to fill the science-policy
gap and foster mutual learning at INSTO level and beyond
Fuzzy formal concept analysis to detect DMO’s strategic patterns towards sustainability
No full textDestination Management Organisations (DMOs) are driving the sustainability transformation at territorial level. The novel adoption of Fuzzy Formal Concept Analysis to analyse a census survey (n = 109) of Italian DMOs highlights the potential of FFCA to uncover nuanced patterns of sustainability implementation that remain hidden using more conventional methods: the co-existence of operational tourism flows management and strategic efforts aimed at advancing sustainability. This represents not only a methodological innovation and a valuable path to process categorical data from survey designs, but also a novel practice-oriented insight for destination managers aiming at implementing sustainability practices
Fresh start
Full text linkScuttari, Anna: (Im)mobilities during and after the COVID-19 pandemic : The changing face of tourism after corona
Pillmayer, Markus: Between Destination Recovery and Destination Resilience : Challenges for a responsible tourism policy in Bavaria
Bösl, Sabine & Chang, Celine: So what’s next after short-time work? : The corona crisis as a job crisis in tourism
Bödinger, Anja & Imhof, Dennis: Corona in Figures : Analysing the hotel market in Germany and Europe
Rauscher, Marion: Travelling into the Past : Cultural travel experiences using virtual-reality technolog
Keeping older people mobile: Autonomous transport services in rural areas
Full text linkRural areas are characterized by limited access to public transportation. In the absence of alternatives, many older people continue to drive private cars. This imposes risks on society and older people, as traffic risks increase with declining mental and physical health. As opportunities to remain mobile have key relevance for quality of life, this paper investigates attitudes of older people to autonomous transport services (ATS), based on a sample of n = 2,349 respondents living in rural and urban areas in Freiburg, Germany. ATS are not currently available, though they are expected to follow the introduction of automated driving, thus representing a future to alternative to public transport and private car travel. Results show an openness to the use of autonomous transport services for a majority of >65 year olds, though interest declines with age. Neither willingness-to-pay nor waiting times to ATS arrival are likely barriers to adoption. The study concludes that an introduction of ATS that targets older people in rural areas is promising, and will generate social and economic benefits for individuals and society. The transition from private cars to ATS can be supported by mandatory license renewal (fitness) tests. These are welcomed by a large majority of respondents, but not currently required in Germany
The impacts of climate change on tourist mobility in mountain areas
No full textThis study investigates the effects of climate change on tourist mobility in mountain areas, distinguishing between infrastructure, transport operation and travel demand. We examine change in tourist travel demand by proposing a two-step approach to forecast its future development. A multi-origin, multi-destination model for tourism demand quantifies the variation in overnight stays within a given region, and a linear, deterministic model determines the traffic-related implications. The method, tested on the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol (Italy), exhibits expected variations in winter and summer travel demand up to 2080 under different scenarios. Results reveal that average summer traffic can be more than twice as intense as average winter traffic, contributing to significantly increasing the peak days of congestion along the Provincial road network. Despite this evidence, all stakeholders seem to be at an early stage in incorporating this information into their strategic planning. The need for adequate transport policies and measures is considered essential to obtain the optimal balance of transport modes that will be required in the near future
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
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