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Managerial Capabilities in the Family Tourist Business: Is Professionalization the Key to Their Development?

2021

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the elements of the particular governance structure of the family business and the involvement of the family in the business in order to verify its effects on managerial capabilities. Likewise, professionalization in this type of company will be studied as a moderating variable. To address this analysis, the Resource and Capabilities Based-View and the Agency Theory will be taken as a basis. The empirical study is carried out on a base of 591 Spanish tourism companies using a multiple linear regression analysis. The results show that many of the peculiar characteristics of the family business have a negative effect on their managerial skills, p…

family businessprofessionalizationgovernance structuremanagement capabilitiestourism sector
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Viaggi nell’immaginario: il turismo virtuale nel sito UNESCO di Tarragona

2023

Le nuove tecnologie hanno trasformato in modo radicale non solo la geografia come disciplina, ma anche le geografie del mondo. Il digitale ha assunto, infatti, un ruolo di mediazione sempre più pervasivo nella produzione dello spazio, come delle conoscenze e degli immaginari geografici. Le possibilità offerte dal virtuale, in particolare, offrono oggi un contributo decisivo nella comunicazione dei significati attribuiti ai luoghi e rispondono in modo sempre più efficace ai bisogni emergenti del settore turistico. Le esperienze di visita mediate dal digitale mirano a coinvolgere i sensi e risultano efficaci quando promuovono immersioni rigorosamente realistiche. Nel quadro di queste riflessi…

New technologies have radically transformed not only geography as a discipline but also the geographies of the world. Indeed the digital has assumed an increasingly pervasive mediating role in the production of space as of geographic knowledge and imaginaries. The possibilities offered by the virtual in particular now offer a decisive contribution in communicating the meanings attributed to places and respond increasingly effectively to the emerging needs of the tourism sector. Digitally mediated visitor experiences aim to engage the senses and are effective when they promote rigorously realistic immersions. Within the framework of these reflections the paper highlights the renewed relevance of authenticity both of the tourism experience and of cultural heritage in relation to its potential for attraction and proposes a contextualization of the theme in light of the unprecedented opportunities granted by technologies for the creation of virtual and augmented spaces. The proposed discussion is therefore also a journey aimed at exploring authenticity as a tool through which new technologies can effectively mediate a sense of place and foster brand communication of a destination. The case study is the UNESCO site of Tarragona whose most relevant image for urban policies is presented. This shared figuration spatially defined and rooted in a precise historical moment is reconstructed on the one hand through the analysis of functional documentation for the candidacy and on the other by means of a review of mobile applications developed for the promotion of the city's cultural heritage. The proposed journey and exploration of the place return in light of the research data and in conclusion the central role played by digital technologies in mediating the UNESCO imaginary. The forms of virtual tourism in Tarragona confirm that to travel is to experience a text enveloped in time and inscribed in space.Settore M-GGR/01 - Geografia
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The Portuguese Man-of-War Has Always Entered the Mediterranean Sea—Strandings, Sightings, and Museum Collections

2022

A search of records from different kinds of sources namely, scientific and grey literature, social media, and zoological museum collections, has been carried out to review the incidence of Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758), the Portuguese man-of-war, in the Mediterranean Sea. The temporal frame of the records, considered valid if documented with images or collected specimens, ranged from the second half of the eighteenth century to the year 2021. Thanks to colonies preserved in some Italian historical museum collections, originating from the western basin, it was possible to date the putative first documented record of P. physalis of the Mediterranean Sea in 1850. The dataset shows some ma…

Settore L-ART/04 - Museologia E Critica Artistica E Del RestauroGlobal and Planetary ChangePhysalia physalisSettore BIO/05 - ZoologiaZoological collectionsOcean EngineeringCitizen scienceAquatic ScienceOceanographyTourism sectorDangerous speciesPhysalia physalis zoological collections dangerous species citizen science tourism sector Mediterranean biodiversityMediterranean biodiversityWater Science and TechnologyFrontiers in Marine Science
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Why do university students choose tourism degrees? Interests analysis and employ-ment expectations for students from Universitat de València

2019

Las expectativas del alumnado que determinan la elección de una titulación en Turismo condicionan sus conductas durante y después de sus estudios. Para identificar estas expectativas se realizó una encuesta al alumnado de Turismo de primer curso. Un análisis factorial nos ha permitido identificar los factores de mayor peso en la elección: Internacionalización, Expectativas de empleo, Emprendimiento, Importancia del sector e Interés por la titulación. Finalmente, se ha completado el estudio analizando sus expectativas sobre las salidas profesionales vinculadas al ámbito turístico. Interests that drive students to choose a Tourism degree will condition their behaviour in their studies and lat…

Job expectations in tourism sectorGeography Planning and DevelopmentMotivaciones estudios universitarios en turismoExpectativas laborales en el sector turísticoGrado en Turismo:3 - Ciencias sociales::33 - Economía::338 - Situación económica. Política económica. Gestión control y planificación de la economía. Producción. Servicios. Turismo. Precios [CDU]Motivació en l'educacióFactorial analysisMercat de treballTourism Leisure and Hospitality ManagementUniversitats CurrículumsMotivations in tourism university studiesTurismeDegree in TourismNature and Landscape ConservationAnálisis factorial
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Towards Nearly Zero Energy and Environmentally Sustainable Agritourisms: The Effectiveness of the Application of the European Ecolabel Brand

2020

Tourism represents an important economic driver in Italy, being responsible for approximately 13.2% of the total GDP (a value higher than the reference European average) and for nearly 10% of the regional GDP. Among the touristic sectors, the agritourist ones show a persistent growth, experiencing in 2019 a 6.7 point percentage improvement compared to the 2017 figures. Given this situation, the transition towards a low-carbon path, affecting the building sector for some time, should also involve agritourist buildings, through the release of EU directives, member state laws, and technical rules. On the other hand, agritourism sites could be awarded the Community EU Ecolabel. Unfortunately, a…

European environmental brands0211 other engineering and technologies02 engineering and technologyEuropean environmental brand010501 environmental scienceslcsh:Technology01 natural scienceslcsh:Chemistrybuilding energy eciencyDocumentationMember stateGeneral Materials Science021108 energylcsh:QH301-705.5InstrumentationStock (geology)0105 earth and related environmental sciencesFluid Flow and Transfer ProcessesConsumption (economics)building energy efficiencySettore ING-IND/11 - Fisica Tecnica AmbientaleZero-energy buildinglcsh:TProcess Chemistry and TechnologyagritourismGeneral EngineeringEnvironmental economicstourism sectorlcsh:QC1-999Computer Science Applicationslcsh:Biology (General)lcsh:QD1-999lcsh:TA1-2040nearly zero energy buildings (nZEB)BusinessEcolabellcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)lcsh:PhysicsTourismEfficient energy useApplied Sciences
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Return on capital in Spanish tourism businesses: A comparative analysis of family vs non-family businesses

2016

The analysis of the keys to competitiveness in the tourism sector has an unquestionable justification for its importance in the Spanish economy and its global growth prospects. The need for a better understanding of the keys to the competitiveness of the tourism firm is also fuelled by the magnitude of the challenges that it faces and by the sector structure, characterised by a notable weight of family-owned businesses. The objective of this research lies precisely in developing a diagnosis of the return on capital of the tourism sector and the determinants of its evolution in the family business (FB) vs non-family business (NFB). Specifically, this study focuses on the analysis of both fir…

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