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Clustering local tourism systems by threshold acceptance
2015
Despite the importance of tourism as a leading industry in the development of a country’s economy, there is a lack of criteria and methodologies for the detection, promotion and governance of local tourism systems. We propose a quantitative approach for the detection of local tourism systems that are optimal with respect to geographical, economic, and demographical criteria. To this end, we formulate the issue as an optimization problem, and we solve it by means of Threshold Acceptance, a meta-heuristic algorithm which does not require us to predefine the number of clusters and also does not require all geographic areas to belong to a cluster.
CLUSTERING TOURIST LOCAL SYSTEMS BY VERTEX PARTITIONING AND LOCAL SEARCH
2014
Nonostante l’industria del turismo venga riconosciuta come un settore trainante per l’intera economia di un Paese, a tutt’oggi si registra una mancanza di criteri e metodologie ai fini della localizzazione, promozione e gestione di un Sistema Turistico Locale (STL). A tal fine, nel presente lavoro viene proposto un approccio di tipo quantitativo al problema sia della localizzazione che del dimensionamento ottimale di un STL tenendo conto di criteri e/o vincoli di natura geografica, economica e demografica. Il problema di ottimizzazione è rappresentato su grafo ed è risolto ricorrendo all’algoritmo di ricerca locale di Threshold Accepting (TA). Despite the importance of tourism as a leading …
A methodology and algorithms for an optimal identification of Tourist Local Systems
2007
In last years, despite the emphasis on the importance of tourism as a leading industry in the development of a country’s economy, there is a lack of criteria and methodologies for the identification, the promotion and the governance of Tourism Local Systems (TLS). Moreover, nowadays an important debate is more and more emerging on the sustainable tourism development which involve three interconnected aspects: environmental, socio-cultural and economic. To this end, in this paper, a rigorous mathematical model is proposed for the optimal identification and dimensioning of TLS. The model here presented consists of a two stage methodology: at first, all the factors that characterize a geograph…