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Ruggieri Giovanni
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ISLANDS TOURISM SEASONALITY
2015
The islands of the European Union, generally associated with the sun and sea, attract the great majority of tourist flows in the summer months. This characteristic is shared by all the islands, be they in the Mediterranean or in the Baltic. However, through detailed analysis and the use of specific indicators, it was demonstrated that some islands are increasingly developing winter tourism in an effort to improve the annual occupancy rate of beds and mitigate seasonality curves. This study examines some islands that are located in different seas of the European Union, at different latitudes and hence in different climatic zones. These islands are: Cyprus (CY), Sicily (IT), Madeira (PT), and…
ICT TO MANAGE TOURISM IMPACTS
2018
New technologies have radically changed the way to share information, to speak, to consider relationships, to work, to travel and, in general, to live. They can represent, for some aspects, both a problem and a precious resource. As we concerns, in tourism sector, ICT can help in managing and promoting destinations in a better way than in the past, especially in those cases where problems linked with the management of tourist flows and the need to manage a sustainable development exist. Monitoring tourism impact at the destination is a fundamental issue in order to respect the right pressure and to avoid negative effects in the destination and with the residents. ICT, in this case, can be e…
Sistemi insulari italiani: competitività nel contesto Mediterraneo
2018
Lo sviluppo locale dipende sempre più spesso dall’industria turistica, specialmente in contesti fragili quali le isole, dove il turismo permette di superare, almeno in parte, gli ostacoli legati alle caratteristiche geo-morfologiche. La rilevanza del settore per l’economia è documentata dalla letteratura internazionale ed evidenziata da diversi studi (Hazari and Sgro, 1995; Balaguer and Cantavella-Jorda, 2002; Pigliaru and Lanza, 2000; Dritsakis, 2004; Durbarry, 2004; Eugenio-Martin, Morales, Scarpa, 2004; Maloney and Rojas, 2005; Eugenio-Martin, Martin-Morales, Sinclair, 2008; Croes & Vanegas, 2008; Sequeira and Nunes, 2008) che spiegano l’attribuzione, al turismo, di un ruolo trainant…
Tourism Development in UNESCO Natural Heritage Sites: The Case of Sicilian Volcanic Sites: Mount Etna and Aeolian Islands
2017
Local development often depends on tourism, especially in fragile contexts like islands which represent a special cluster and are the best cases to be analyzed in order to highlight positive and negative aspects of economic development driven by tourism. A sustainable development approach should be taken in account and the UNESCO brand plays a fundamental role in this sense. The aim of this paper is to analyze the link between tourism supply and the growth of tourism demand in the case of UNESCO sites through multivariate regression analysis. The results show a correlation between the variables considered. But the actual structure of supply is still built on conventional sea tourism and is …