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Design of composite measure schemes for comparative severity assessment in animal-based neuroscience research: A case study focussed on rat epilepsy …
2020
PLOS ONE 15(5), e0230141 (2020). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0230141
Demographic change, tourism expenditure and life cycle behavior
2015
Abstract The paper explores how demographic changes in human populations may impact on tourism decision-making of households over their life cycle. By means of hurdle models, the study focuses respectively on the decision to travel domestically or abroad and investigates if statistically significant differences exist as to the impact of age and cohort on the decision to travel and tourism expenditure. Using a vast dataset on Italian Household Expenditures over the period 1997–2007 the empirical results show that demographic aspects do have a strong effect on the tourism behaviour of families and that cohort and age effects act differently on the decision of households to make a trip and on …
Risk, Terrorism, and Tourism Consumption
2017
The present chapter discusses to what extent the rise of new risks and dangers, modernity has brought, has causing the end of tourism. The answer to the above formulated questions is not easy, and of course, it exhibits a fertile ground to be explored in other approaches. The ceaseless news about violence, cruelty, wars and deaths have serious negative impacts on audience worldwide. Though policy makers have devoted their time and efforts in looking for new alternative segments where death replaces the allegory of beautiness, giving as a result new products as dark-tourism, slum-tourism, disaster-tourism or doom-tourism, other problems arise. The curiosity for tourists in visiting spaces of…
Is participation in the tourism market an opportunity for everyone? Some evidence from Italy
2016
This paper investigates whether there are differences in tourism consumption behaviour among families by analysing the main determinants of tourism participation at national and international levels. In particular, it explores whether tourism is becoming part of the lifestyle of Italians or whether it is still a luxury good only for the privileged. A Heckman model was used on micro-data on Italian family expenditure over the period 1997–2007, and an income elasticity analysis for different personal and household characteristics was carried out. The results show that participation in the tourism market is strongly affected by the personal characteristics of individuals and that tourism cons…
Sport tourism consumer experiences: a comprehensive model
2004
The interest in physical activity and vacations has created a growth in the tourism industry and has greatly modified strategies within the industry. Sport tourism is expanding and many forms of consumption exist within this area. The object of this study is to propose a new framework for analysing sport tourism consumption. This framework illustrates that consumer choices depend upon vacation destinations and sport services offered in relation to the experiences that vacationers are seeking. The originality of this analysis is that it integrates spatial and social dimensions stemming from environmental psychology, ethnology and sociology.
"La pura superficie" e la traslazione
2018
The article is a reading of the collected poems by Guido Mazzoni "La pura superficie" (Donzelli 2017)
Costruzioni discorsive sull’Europa e sui rapporti tra continenti nell’antichità greca
2019
L’articolo studia le retoriche cui sono state sottoposte le identità rappresentate dai continenti. Viene mostrato così che la mitica parentela originaria ha dato luogo ora ad un legame di solidarietà tra i popoli che occupano l’una o l’altra zona geografica, ora ad una giustificazione delle pretese imperialistiche di un popolo su un altro. Si mostra altresì che i confini tra i continenti vengono presentati, a seconda del punto di vista difensivo o aggressivo da cui se ne parla, ora come segni di una ‘architettura’ naturale di cui si pretende il rispetto, ora come ostacoli da superare in nome dell’amore della conoscenza che vuole esplorare l’ignoto o dell’addomesticamento di ciò che è selvag…
Διαλεκτικές κατασκευές για την Ευρώπη και για τις σχέσεις ανάμεσα σε ηπείρους στην ελληνική αρχαιότητα
2020
L’articolo studia le retoriche cui sono state sottoposte le identità rappresentate dai continenti. Viene mostrato così che la mitica parentela originaria ha dato luogo ora ad un legame di solidarietà tra i popoli che occupano l’una o l’altra zona geografica, ora ad una giustificazione delle pretese imperialistiche di un popolo su un altro. Si mostra altresì che i confini tra i continenti vengono presentati, a seconda del punto di vista difensivo o aggressivo da cui se ne parla, ora come segni di una ‘architettura’ naturale di cui si pretende il rispetto, ora come ostacoli da superare in nome dell’amore della conoscenza che vuole esplorare l’ignoto o dell’addomesticamento di ciò che è selvag…
Tourism Statistics: Methodological Imperatives and Difficulties: The Case of Residential Tourism in Island Communities1,3
2008
Tourism statistics are one of the key sources of information for economists, public officials and tourism decision-makers. The aim of the present paper is to describe and critique the methodological difficulties encountered when approaching statistical studies in tourism. The case of hidden tourism in island communities is used to illustrate that in tourism statistics there exists a lack of clarity and convention concerning definitions, procedures, measurement and analytic approaches. The conclusions and the study implications should help tourism authorities and tourism statisticians to better define and standardise methodological and measurement approaches and practices and to more effecti…
Lower cortisol response in high-resilient caregivers of people with autism: the role of anger
2016
Caring for an offspring with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been related to high stress levels and health disturbances. However, a protective effect against these negative health outcomes has been described in high-resilient caregivers. In this context, the main aim of the present study was to assess the association between resilient coping and cortisol response to acute stress in caregivers of people with ASD. Furthermore, the study aimed to explore the mediating role of anger in this association. We exposed 40 caregivers of people with ASD to an acute psychosocial stressor in the laboratory. Salivary cortisol samples were obtained before, during, and after the stressor. Resilient c…