Fertile Links Connections Between Tourism Activities Socioeconomic Contexts And Local Development

Author : Antonio Raschi,Elisabete Figueiredo
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788866553885

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Fertile Links? Connections Between Tourism Activities, Socioeconomic Contexts and Local Development by Antonio Raschi,Elisabete Figueiredo Pdf

In many European regions, rural areas are facing major challenges in economic and social terms, consequence of transformations in the role and meaning of agriculture. The loss of the productive character strongly contributed to the emergence of new roles and functions, particularly related to leisure and tourism. The book aims to discuss questions directly related to the connections between rural tourism and local socioeconomic contexts, presenting diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives and diff erent case studies from various European regions. The book addresses the relationships among rural tourism and the complex interactions, confl icts and innovative processes developing in rural territories as consequence of the implementation of tourism activities. The book responds to some relevant and not yet comprehensively researched aspects within this topic, especially in what extent tourism, in its various forms and processes, might give an important contribution to rural development.

Author : Antonio Raschi,Elisabete Maria Melo Figueiredo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8892735535

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Fertile Links? Connections between tourism activities, socioeconomic contexts and local development in European rural areas by Antonio Raschi,Elisabete Maria Melo Figueiredo Pdf

In many European regions, rural areas are facing major challenges in economic and social terms, consequence of transformations in the role and meaning of agriculture. The loss of the productive character strongly contributed to the emergence of new roles and functions, particularly related to leisure and tourism. The book aims to discuss questions directly related to the connections between rural tourism and local socioeconomic contexts, presenting diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives and diff erent case studies from various European regions. The book addresses the relationships among rural tourism and the complex interactions, confl icts and innovative processes developing in rural territories as consequence of the implementation of tourism activities. The book responds to some relevant and not yet comprehensively researched aspects within this topic, especially in what extent tourism, in its various forms and processes, might give an important contribution to rural development.

Author : Nicola Bellini,Cécile Clergeau,Olivier Etcheverria
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351743938

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Gastronomy and Local Development by Nicola Bellini,Cécile Clergeau,Olivier Etcheverria Pdf

Gastronomy, particularly gourmet tourism, is widely acknowledged as having a powerful impact on local development. Public policies have developed in response to research, highlighting gastronomy as key in a successful tourism economy. However, research thus far has not fully explored the underlying mechanisms of gastronomic tourism, in particular the marketing and perception of quality, on economic development. This book considers how the quality of products, places, and experiences contributes to the desirability and competitiveness of gourmet touristic destinations. The contributors present theoretical and empirical studies to create an original conceptual framework for regional development based on the quality of products, of places, and of touristic experience. It also examines the ways in which quality is linked to identity, diversity, innovation, and creativity. With an interdisciplinary approach, this book will be of interest to researchers in tourism and hospitality, regional studies, and human geography, as well as to tourism development professionals and policymakers in the areas of rural and local development.

Author : Alessio Cavicchi,Cristina Santini
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780081012604

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Case Studies in the Traditional Food Sector by Alessio Cavicchi,Cristina Santini Pdf

Consumer Science and Strategic Marketing: Case Studies in the Traditional Food Sector aims to close the gap between academic researchers and industry professionals through real world scenarios and field-based research. The book explores how consumer and sensory science has been implemented in the food industry for achieving the following strategic aims: rejuvenating product image, shaping new market places, achieving market differentiation and geographical diffusion, achieving customer loyalty, promoting traditional features of the product and defining product positioning in competitive environment. There is an emerging demand from food industry professionals and undergraduate and postgraduate students who attend business and agricultural studies courses who want to gain practical information through real cases and field-based research. This book aims to answer the following questions, amongst others: How research in the field of consumer science became relevant for marketing strategies?, Which tangible economic and financial outcomes have been obtained by the joint work of sensory scientists, researchers in marketing field and food business professionals?, and which communication methods and practices have been relevant to make the most of R&D in the food industry? Through case studies, successful examples and practices are provided, with newer inputs for further theoretical investigation given. Both current and future professionals in the food industry will gain insights that can be used in their business environment. Bridges the gap between scholars and practitioners in understanding consumers in the traditional food sector Allows scientists and professionals to make the most of R&D outcomes Advances consumer science research to address business problems in the food industry

Author : Richard Sharpley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000462241

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Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience by Richard Sharpley Pdf

Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience offers a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary research on the tourist experience. It draws together multidisciplinary perspectives from leading tourism scholars to explore emergent tourist behaviours and motivations. This handbook provides up-to-date, critical discussions of established and emergent themes and issues related to the tourist experience from a primarily socio-cultural perspective. It opens with a detailed introduction which lays down the framework used to examine the dynamic parameters of the tourist experience. Organised into five thematic sections, chapters seek to build and enhance knowledge and understanding of the significance and meaning of diverse elements of the tourist experience. Section 1 conceptualises and understands the tourist experience through an exploration of conventional themes such as tourism as authentic and spiritual experience, as well as emerging themes such as tourism as an embodied experience. Section 2 investigates the new, developing tourist demands and motivations, and a growing interest in the travel career. Section 3 considers the significance, motives, practices and experiences of different types of tourists and their roles such as the tourist as photographer. Section 4 discusses the relevance of ‘place’ to the tourist experience by exploring the relationship between tourism and place. The last section, Section 5, scrutinises the role of the tourist in creating their experiences through themes such as ‘transformations in the tourist role’ from passive receiver of experiences to co-creator of experiences, and ‘external mediators in creating tourist experiences'. This handbook is the first to fill a notable gap in the tourism literature and collate within a single volume critical insights into the diverse elements of the tourist experience today. It will be of key interest to academics and students across the fields of tourism, hospitality management, geography, marketing and consumer behaviour.

Author : Maria João Carneiro,Celeste Eusébio,Elisabeth Kastenholz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781443898317

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Meeting Challenges for Rural Tourism through Co-Creation of Sustainable Tourist Experiences by Maria João Carneiro,Celeste Eusébio,Elisabeth Kastenholz Pdf

Rural tourism is not a new phenomenon in many parts of the world, but it has only recently received increased attention from researchers, politicians and managers as a result of new market trends, the recognition of the “rural crisis” and the urge to solve it. However, there is also evidence that rural tourism is not a miraculous antidote for this crisis, certainly not in all places and under all conditions. Despite some recent studies examining the critical factors of success for rural tourism, there is still a need for a deeper understanding of the rural tourism phenomenon, the nature of the tourism experience and how it could be optimized to the benefit of all, while making the best use of endogenous resources and competences, yielding sustainable destination development. This book contributes to the debate, focusing on the tourist experience, here conceptualized as “co-created” between hosts and guests, based on destination-specific elements of “countryside capital” and aiming at sustainability. It contains both conceptual and empirical chapters, with diverse and new perspectives, methodological approaches and cases from several countries.

Author : Oliveira, Lídia,Amaro, Ana Carla,Melro, Ana
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799867036

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Handbook of Research on Cultural Heritage and Its Impact on Territory Innovation and Development by Oliveira, Lídia,Amaro, Ana Carla,Melro, Ana Pdf

Cultural heritage is perceived as the glue that keeps individuals together and makes them feel a part of something larger. It is the past that allows individuals to understand their present and move towards the future. In networked society, it is impossible to think about cultural heritage and its preservation and maintenance without including the digital processes and ICT systems, as well as its impact on territorial innovation. The Handbook of Research on Cultural Heritage and Its Impact on Territory Innovation and Development is a critical and comprehensive reference book that analyzes how preservation and sustainability of cultural heritage occurs in countries, as well as how it contributes to territorial innovation. Moreover, the book examines how technological tools contribute to its preservation and sustainability, as well as its dissemination. Highlighting topics that include public policies, spatial development, and architectural heritage, this book is ideal for cultural heritage professionals, government officials, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and students.

Author : Anthony Jensen,Greg Patmore,Ermanno Tortia
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788866558675

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Cooperative Enterprises in Australia and Italy by Anthony Jensen,Greg Patmore,Ermanno Tortia Pdf

This book arises from a three-year comparative research program concerning co-operative enterprises in Australia and Italy. The book explores the historical development, legal framework and the peak organisations of co-operatives in the two countries. Specific comparative chapters focus on consumer, credit, and worker-producer co-operatives. The book deepens the analysis of co-operatives by containing chapters that examine specific theoretical and empirical issues such as the theory of co-operative firms as collective entrepreneurial action. Monographic chapters include more in depth analysis of specific typologies of co-operatives, such as social and community oriented co-operatives, some of which were created to contrast organized crime in Southern Italy. The book concludes with an assessment of the implications of the project for public policy.

Author : Lucarelli, Sonia
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788866556336

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Gender and the European Union by Lucarelli, Sonia Pdf

Gender discrimination continues to be a reality in several parts of the world, also in Europe. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of both European Union’s (EU) gender policies and gender balance in EU institutions. It does so by looking at gender equality policies and the EU legal system concerning gender equality, women’s representation within diff erent institutions (and more particularly in the European External Action Service), gender rights as a type of human rights and the EU’s role in the external promotion of womens’ rights in third countries. The analysis shows that women’s representation in the EU institutions has increased in the last decades and that the EU has strengthened its att ention to gender rights in its external relations as well, however the results of both att empts are far from being fully satisfactory.

Author : Guido Carlo Pigliasco
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788855180849

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The Custodians of the Gift by Guido Carlo Pigliasco Pdf

Emerging from more than two decades of research in the field and in the archives, the essays collected here explore the multifaceted topic of the Fijian firewalking ceremony, the vilavilairevo. The collection examines the intersection of the intertwined topics of cultural property, reproduction of tradition, and change with issues of (post)colonial representation, authenticity, and ethnic identity. The essays advance new insights on the tourist gaze and the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage and pose serious questions regarding the role of digital and social media as tools for preserving cultural legacies and extending traditional cultural worlds into new domains. Focusing on the response of the Sawau tribe of the island of Beqa to the commodification of the vilavilairevo as their iconic practice, this essay collection ultimately illuminates how the Christian cultural dynamics and unprecedented dogmatic schism surrounding the vilavilairevo spectacle are reshaping local notions of heritage, social sentiment, and social capital.

Author : Edoardo Gerlini
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : 9788866556008

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The Heian Court Poetry as World Literature by Edoardo Gerlini Pdf

Author : Anna Margherita Jasink,Judith Weingarten,Silvia Ferrara
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788864536361

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Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas by Anna Margherita Jasink,Judith Weingarten,Silvia Ferrara Pdf

This volume is intended to be the first in a series that will focus on the origin of script and the boundaries of non-scribal communication media in proto-literate and literate societies of the ancient Aegean. Over the last 30 years, the domain of scribes and bureaucrats has become much better known. Our goal now is to reach below the élite and scribal levels to interface with non-scribal operations conducted by people of the ‘middling’ sort. Who made these marks and to what purpose? Did they serve private or (semi-) official roles in Bronze Age Aegean society? The comparative study of such practices in the contemporary East (Cyprus, Anatolia, the Levant, and Egypt) can shed light on sub-elite activities in the Aegean and also provide evidence for cultural and economic exchange networks.

Author : Joseph M. Cheer,Alan A. Lew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315464039

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Tourism, Resilience and Sustainability by Joseph M. Cheer,Alan A. Lew Pdf

In a world increasingly faced with, and divided by, regional and global crises, resilience has emerged as a key concept with significant relevance for tourism. A paradigmatic shift is taking place in the long-term planning of tourism development, in which the prevailing focus on sustainability is being enhanced with the practical application of resilience planning. This book provides a critical appraisal of sustainability and resilience, and the relationship between the two. Contributions highlight the complexity of addressing social change with resilience planning in a range of tourism contexts, from islands to mountains, from urban to remote environments, and in a range of international settings. Case studies articulate how tourism is both an agent of social change and a victim of larger change processes, and provide important lessons on how to deal with increasingly unstable economic, social and environmental systems. This is the first book to specifically examine social change and sustainability in tourism through a resilience lens. This much-needed contribution to the literature will be a key resource for those working in tourism studies, tourism planning and management, social geography, and development studies, among others.

Author : Kathleen Scherf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1773851888

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Creative Tourism in Smaller Communities by Kathleen Scherf Pdf

Tourists are travelling the world in greater numbers than ever before, seeking immersive cultural experiences. This massive rise of tourism has caused issues of environmental and cultural sustainability in the world's global cities. At the same time, smaller cities and rural communities struggling with increasing urbanization and the loss of traditional industries could benefit from increased tourism. Smaller cities and communities are uniquely well-suited to hosting tourists seeking authentic connection with local cultures. Locally led, collaborative efforts to build creative tourism industries have the possibility to reinvigorate communities facing economic depression or devastation. Creative tourism offers the opportunity to build socially and environmentally sustainable channels for cultural and economic growth that benefit locals and visitors alike. Creative Tourism in Smaller Communities examines the processes, policies, and methodologies of creative tourism, paying special attention to the ways creative and place-based tourism can aid sustainable economic and cultural development. With topics ranging from placemaking through food to the cultural impacts of cruise travel, and from catalyzing creative tourism to creating resiliency, this collection offers a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives from a variety of experts. Creative Tourism in Smaller Communities offers a bold vision for the future of tourism worldwide.

Author : R. Fantechi,N.S. Margaris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400946484

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Desertification in Europe by R. Fantechi,N.S. Margaris Pdf

Proceedings of the Information Symposium in the EEC Programme in Climatology held in Mytilene, Greece, April 15-18, 1984