Public Policies and Development of the Tourism Industry in the Aegean Region

Gülcan, Yaprak; Kuştepeli, Yeşim; Akgüngör, Sedef

doi:10.1080/09654310903141722

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“…On the one hand, it is linked to fast economic growth and higher value added in the region, particularly in coastal or mountainous regions [10,40,[45][46][47]. On the other hand, more recent studies show lower levels of gross value added in tourism and a lack of connection between tourism, education and productivity, as well as a low contribution of knowledge and research to the economy of regions specialising in tourism [14,37,46].…”

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“…The specialization of regional economic activities dates back to Marshall's concept of polarization theory and the new economic geography theory and is based on underlying competitive advantage as a result of inter-firm interactions and institutions and diffusion of technology, transfer of innovation, skills and knowledge (see Gulcan et al, 2009) [40]. It is often associated with several theoretical models, such as the industrial districts model, which refers to the existence of different categories of firms, their proximity and the quality of the social milieu including trust, transferable skills, knowledge, in order to achieve external economies of scale and increase competitiveness and productivity [41].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Tourism Diversification and Its Implications for Smart Specialisation

Weidenfeld

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:The complex nature of tourism, its strong inter-sectoral relationships and regional dimension challenge innovation. The advent of smart specialisation, which focuses on regional diversification across sectors, offers considerable and hitherto largely unrealized potential for developing innovative tourism policies within this new agenda. This paper addresses the understudied concept of tourism diversification and its unrealized relevance to smart specialisation, which has emerged as a mainstream logic underpinning EU Cohesion Policy reforms and has diffused into other OECD countries. It provides a theoretical framework for studying product, market, sectoral and regional diversification as well as related variety in tourism. Some policy implications for realizing tourism diversification and for the potential role of tourism in smart specialisation strategies in particular are suggested.

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Section: Specialisationmentioning

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Section: Specialisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism Diversification and Its Implications for Smart Specialisation

Weidenfeld

2018

Sustainability

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“…Akgüngör applied LQ to locate regions in Turkey where the tourism sector was more specialized (Gülcan et al, 2009). In his previous publications, the author also worked with the locational Gini and with multivariate methods based on I-O data (Akgüngör et al, 2003;Akgüngör, 2006;Falcioglu and Akgüngör, 2008).…”

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Bibliometric Analysis of the Quantitative Methods Applied to the Measurement of Industrial Clusters

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Journal of Economic Surveys

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Literature on methods for analysing interindustry interdependence and geographical concentration of firms began to multiply since the 1990s. The aim of this paper was to systematize the literature on methods and measures applied to the analysis of industrial clusters, as well as to identify trends in this knowledge field. The method used was bibliometrics, which consisted of a frequency evaluation of the publications and the relationship network between them. It was verified an exponential increase in the number of papers that composed this area, based mainly on the theories of New Economic Geography. Recently, the literature has focused on the geographic location in relation to interindustry linkages, and the frontier of knowledge has shifted from traditional methods of regional science to areas such as spatial statistics, econophysics and artificial intelligence. There are still relevant questions being explored, as Modifiable Area Unit Problem (aggregation bias), nevertheless, spatial anisotropy (directional bias) is still neglected and indicates a new research path.

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“…Previous literature on related topics has employed location quotients (LQ) in order to identify those regions with an above-average concentration of tourism activity (see e.g. Klein et al, 2005;Thompson, 2007;Gülcan et al, 2009). These can be calculated as a ratio of local and national tourism concentrations, measured as the proportion of tourismrelated jobs to total jobs at each level, for example.…”

Section: (Eq 1) Tur = (Local Tourism Iae Revenues)/(national Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%