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RELATIONAL TOURISM : CHALLENGES AND CAPABILITIES
2017
The observed changes in the orientation of tourism demand in the last three decades have brought to the birth of new ways of interpreting the tourism phenomenon. Among these we highlight Relational Tourism, a phenomenon that can be perceived as human-scale tourism, clearly based on territorial, cultural and environmental constraints that include travel formats such as rural tourism, cultural tourism, farm tourism, environmental tourism, outdoor activity tourism and many new ways, which have shown an important quantitative growth of Relational Tourism demand in Europe and internationally in the last decades, offering an alternative and increasingly more appreciated tourism to the traditional…
La sfida competitiva nelle destinazioni turistiche minori. Rinvii alla responsabilità socioculturale e ambientale
2022
This contribution considers the socio-economic development of small tourist destinations. Attention is mainly paid to identifying the customer segments and the entrepreneurial dynamics that qualify the supply chain of the tourist industry by analysing the relations among operators who satisfy similar needs (not only direct competitors but also indirect ones) and even those among suppliers and complementors. Further considerations regard the socio-environmental responsibility - and not only that - which the subjects called to promote the development mentioned above must assume. The study commitment limited to small-scale destinations considers the "morphological" characteristics in these spa…
L'attenzione al marchio nelle strategie di Destination Management
2012
Arte, Bellezza e Progettazione della fruizione turistica. Spunti di riflessione a partire da Palermo capitale italiana della cultura 2018
2020
La fruizione turistico-culturale di una città d'arte in ottica relazionale. Come conseguire rispetto ad altre destinazioni un vantaggio competitivo culturale sostenibile a partire da una progettazione partecipata.
The promotion of a tourist destination through the definition of the "concept" in a sensorial perspective
2016
According to Anholt, the brand of a tourist destination expresses and sustains its identity; it should depict the main characteristics of the territory and its contents and for this reason it should represent the synthesis, the result rather than the starting point of its promotion. At the operational level there is a widespread tendency of the policy makers to develop the brand strategy of a destination by launching advertising campaigns that enlighten the territorial attractors, aiming to stress the tourist appeal of some geographical areas. In this case the main strategic efforts are usually oriented to develop and support a “comparative" advantage rather than a “competitive” one. An inn…
I festival gastronomici come “driver” del Destination Management. Il Cous Cous Fest e lo Sherbeth.
2017
RE-CONCEPTUALIZING A SICILIAN DESTINATION THROUGH THE ACTORNETWORK THEORY: THE ROLE OF A GASTRONOMIC FESTIVAL TO RUN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF A TE…
2013
The paper describes San Vito Lo Capo – a tourist destination on the west cost of Sicily – by considering its human and not human (material and immaterial) elements. To depict this tourist destination, so to map and analyze the different involved elements and to understand the inner mechanisms of its functioning, the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is exploited. A special focus is on the “Cous Cous Fest” and the role it’s played in the last seventeen years for the tourist (economic) development of the destination.
A Spatial Origin-Destination Analysis of International Tourism Demand. The Case of Italian Provinces
2021
Tourism Destination Image, Tourism Discourse and UNESCO sites: a contrastive analysis
2018
The purpose of this paper is to analyse tourism discourse - i.e. English as specialised and promotional discourse in the tourism field (Dann 1996, Gotti 2006, Maci, 2013) – as it is applied on websites promoting UNESCO sites in Sicily and in Malta. The consequent Tourism Destination Image (Crompton 1979; Echtner & Ritchie 1991) conveyed by the websites will also be investigated. A mixed methodological approach, both qualitative and quantitative, has been adopted. More specifically, the Corpus Linguistics approach has been privileged (Teubert 2005; Nigro 2006). The websites considered concern five UNESCO sites in Sicily and five UNESCO sites in Malta in a comparative study; both corpora of w…
Analysing Tourist Destination Image through Topic Modeling
2019
Topic modeling has become one of the most used methods to analyse textual data, proving able to “discover” hidden dimensions (topics) which characterise a corpus. This methodology can be used fruitfully to analyse complex phenomena like tourist destination image. With this aim in mind, this paper discusses the use of topic modeling over TV commercials which have been broadcast by four of the major cruise lines operating in Italy in recent years.