No abstract

Olive oil tourism is an emerging activity that is sparking a growing interest among tourists seeking to partake in this experience and the self-fulfilment it offers. An ever-greater number of olive oil mills are diversifying their businesses to incorporate this type of tourism. In this article, olive oil tourism is characterized as a type of special interest tourism (SIT), under a demand-side approach. Based on quantitative research carried out with olive oil tourists, which examined the aspects of the destination they value, as well as their preferences and motivations for consumption, this article proposes four dimensions that are considered key for characterizing olive oil tourism as SIT: experience, sustainability awareness, the promotion of local culture, and the image of status and prestige held by the tourist. This proposal to characterize olive oil tourism as a type of SIT can contribute to the development of more effective and successful marketing strategies that orient olive oil tourism towards services that tourists value and demand. In turn, this will have an impact in terms of wealth creation for rural olive oil producing areas.

Medium-sized European cities have been playing an increasingly significant role in the economic development of countries in recent decades, establishing themselves as genuinely specialized local production systems with great potential for stimulating the economy and generating added value. In many of these cities, in addition, tourism has become an incredibly strong economic activity with the capacity to stimulate local economies, as it contributes to the enhancement of endogenous resources and the generation of a multiplier effect on other economic sectors. This paper uses a structural equation model to demonstrate, first, that a direct relationship exists between tourism development and economic development and second, that, of all cities analyzed (medium-sized cities of Andalusia, Spain), those with a higher level of tourism development are actually those showing a higher level of socioeconomic development, which confirms that tourism has great potential as a tool for endogenous development.

Recent years have witnessed a notable increase in the implementation of social innovation strategies for creating products with major social impact. Despite the lack of conceptual clarity still surrounding the term, social innovation, as a participatory research method, is finding scope for growth in agricultural cooperatives, whether in the areas of R&D and knowledge transfer, or in the commercialization of innovative products. Society has underscored the need for change in the environment and the implementation of new projects that help improve socioeconomic living conditions, promoting territorial development through social transformation. In the case of cooperativism in the olive oil industry in southern Spain, cooperatives are responsible for 70% of the oil produced there. As such, the actions carried out under their influence have a huge impact on the population and serve as tools that anchor people to their municipalities. This article analyses a case study from an olive oil cooperative, exploring the development of a social innovation project involving knowledge transfer and public awareness-raising through the label of an early harvest olive oil called “Primer Día de Cosecha” (First Day of Harvest). It also assesses the impact of the project on the population of the Andalusian municipality of Bailén (Jaén).

RESUMENHasta hace escasos años, el destino turístico era relegado por la literatura científica al papel de mero contenedor de la actividad turística. Sin embargo, durante la última década, se empieza a asumir la importancia del destino en la toma de decisiones del turista y en la satisfacción de sus necesidades y expectativas, lo que conlleva la necesidad de una gestión activa de este tipo de territorios. Por otro lado, el continuo crecimiento de la demanda turística anima a un número cada vez mayor de territorios a poner en valor sus recursos y atractivos para posicionarse y conseguir o aumentar cuota de mercado en el negocio turístico. Ello genera una creciente competencia entre destinos que, de nuevo, conlleva la necesidad de una gestión activa de los destinos turísticos. En este artículo se demuestra la importancia de analizar el dinamismo económico del turismo, como herramienta para la segmentación de destinos, lo que facilitará a los policymakers y gestores de destinos la adopción de medidas de política turística y de gestión diferenciadas según el nivel más o menos avanzado de cada territorio.Palabras clave: destino turístico, dinamismo económico del turismo, gestión de destinos, análisis de clases latentes, Andalucía (España).