From Clusters to Smart Specialization: Tourism in Institution-Sensitive Regional Development Policies

Benner, Maximilian

doi:10.3390/economies5030026

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“…The authors consider green tourism and its organization as a mechanism for rational use of ecosystems and increase the competitiveness of regions by ensuring their attractiveness, providing recreational, recreational and tourist services (Zinchenko, 2016). A similar position is observed by M. Benner (Benner, 2017), Ch. Machado, L. Esther (Machado, 2017).…”

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confidence: 88%

Green Tourism Development in Smart Communities

Плотнікова¹

2018

BJES

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The purpose of the study is to substantiate factors and mechanisms of development of green tourism and its consequences. Methodology. The methodological basis of the study is the systematic synergistic approach to the study of socioeconomic phenomena in rural areas under the influence of macroeconomic factors and local initiatives to increase their socioeconomic potential through the practice of green tourism. The research used such methods as analysis and synthesis, comparison, and generalization. Historical and logical methods of scientific knowledge, expert evaluations, graphic, and averages are used. The abstract-logical method of research allowed, through theoretical generalizations, to determine the research tasks, to formulate the working hypothesis and conclusions. A survey was conducted on 800 rural residents aged 18-72, of which 56% were women and 44% were men from 6 regions of Ukraine, among which 20% were inhabitants of ecological and tribal settlements. The participants in the survey were persons under 35 years of age (26% of their total number), persons 35 to 55 years old (accounted for 47%), and 55 years and older (27%). Respondents having higher education were 28%, incomplete higher-6%, secondary special-30%, secondary-33%, others-3%. Respondents in the social sphere accounted for 30%, agriculture-26%, pensioners-23%, forestry-3%, unemployed persons-18%, which ensured the representativeness of the sample. The study period covered the years of 2013-2017. Results. As a result of the study, it was established that the development of green tourism is the basis of rational nature management and increasing the competitiveness of the regions through the formation of their investment and socio-environmental attractiveness. The subject of the study is a set of institutional, theoretical-methodological, methodological, and applied problems of the development of green tourism. The conditions and retrospective of tourism development are outlined, among which the priority is to increase the socioeconomic activity of the territories with minimal investments of budgets of all levels and a high level of return on investments. The basic problems of the establishment of green (ecological tourism) are identified. The basic ones are the inadequacy of the quality and range of services provided at their prices, as well as the low level of professionalism of the persons providing tourist services. The factors that determine the activation of green tourism in Ukraine are determined. Of these, the development of generic settlements as catalysts of social change in the territory is decisive. Public organizations as institutions of social importance are the triggers of the activity. Practical implications. The practical significance of the research is to deliver a strategy for the development of green tourism in the united territorial communities. They will be able to make proposals for the legislative regulation of the of urban youth transfer to rural areas. Youth that will invest in rural areas and is ready to start their...

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Green Tourism Development in Smart Communities

Плотнікова¹

2018

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“…Mass tourism, too, is a complex concept that includes a number of different images such as the Fordist model [32,33] of highly standardized package tourism, but also more differentiated forms of mass tourism [34]. Spatially, Mediterranean mass tourism in its package variant is often reflected in small-scale tourism agglomerations [35] (p. 1) [36] (p. 39) that do not lend themselves to the kind of frictions between visitors and residents that are usually at the focus of the overtourism debate-that is, frictions caused by larger number of tourists intruding into semi-private spaces of local residents or into public urban spaces in residential neighborhoods [1] [8]. In consequence, overtourism is not a problem of mass tourism per se but of particular forms of tourism and does not necessarily presuppose large absolute numbers of visitors.…”

Section: Overtourism: a Brief Conceptual Reviewmentioning

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The Decline of Tourist Destinations: An Evolutionary Perspective on Overtourism

Benner

2020

Sustainability

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The term overtourism has generated considerable attention both in academic discourse and public debate. The actual or perceived impact of overtourism on destinations has significant ecological, social, and cultural consequences. However, a crucial question remains unanswered: What does overtourism do to a destination’s tourism industry itself? At the core of this question is whether overtourism is a self-limiting phenomenon or a cumulative one, and how precisely overtourism shapes patterns of quantitative or qualitative decline of a destination’s tourism sector. This article offers a conceptual discussion of the impact of overtourism on a destination’s local tourism sector by refining the latter stages of Butler’s tourist area lifecycle through forms of path decline known from evolutionary economic geography. By combining these two theorical approaches and refining the typology of path decline from evolutionary economic geography to the case of tourism under an overtourism scenario, this article suggests that, in the absence of exogenous changes due to policy interventions or public pressure, under an overtourism scenario, a destination’s tourism sector might contract, downgrade, dislocate, and eventually even disappear. Further research should focus on how to prevent these forms of path decline.

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“…Cluster-and system-oriented tourism innovation policies have emerged over the millennial period, coinciding with a stronger emphasis on support given by universities to the tourism knowledge repository (Tribe & Liburd, 2017). In Europe, increased funding is encouraging the emergence of more experimental innovation polices, also aimed at renewing tourism products and processes (Benner, 2017). The weaknesses of the system-oriented innovation policies are mainly that it takes time to build sustainable systemic structures, and that much of what is established might not have any permanence, as it depends on project financing (Björk, 2014).…”

Section: System-oriented Innovation Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More fundamental transitions concern not only the direction, but also potentially the resource base and the core capabilities that, when activated, require other types of innovation policies. Movements in this direction can be observed in connection with the European introduction of Smart Specialization and Smart Growth as guiding principles for regional development (Benner, 2017;Foray, 2016 and. Here the intention is to take into account entirely new and hitherto unnoticed entrepreneurial capacities, assets and ideas.…”

Section: Mission-oriented Innovation Policymentioning

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Capacity-, system- and mission-oriented innovation policies in tourism – characteristics, measurement and prospects

Hjalager

Gesseneck²

2019

Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events

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Innovation policies for tourism are under-investigated and under-conceptualized. With reference to the ongoing innovation policy discussions, three distinctive public innovation policy paradigms-capacityoriented, system-oriented and mission-oriented-are outlined, and the manifestations in the case of tourism are explained. Contemporary strategies and practices for tourism development tend to comprise elements of all three paradigms. Nevertheless, nowadays there tends to be a gradual evolvement towards an ongoing refinement of the instruments towards the mission-oriented approach, which addresses both societal challenges and economic opportunities. The complexity of goals and the number of actors involved increase when taking the mission-oriented policy approach. The EC-OECD innovation policy monitoring program STIP lists many instruments, but is still insufficient for tourism. The study refers to tests of innovation policy survey topics in Overseas Counties and Territories that demonstrate the significant ambiguity of innovation policies. In all types of countries and territories there is a demand for new frameworks, however most innovation policies still seem very traditional and fail to focus on future challenges.

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From Clusters to Smart Specialization: Tourism in Institution-Sensitive Regional Development Policies

Cited by 36 publications

References 26 publications

Green Tourism Development in Smart Communities

Green Tourism Development in Smart Communities

The Decline of Tourist Destinations: An Evolutionary Perspective on Overtourism

Capacity-, system- and mission-oriented innovation policies in tourism – characteristics, measurement and prospects

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