Rural Destination Management Innovation and Collaboration in Appalachia

Eades, Daniel C.; Arbogast, Douglas

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“…USDA’s Forest Service, Rural Development, and the National Institute for Food and Agriculture developed Recreation Economies Resource Guide for rural communities to identify resources to develop their recreation economy (EPA, n.d.; ORR, n.d.; USDA Rural Development, n.d.). Finally, Eades and Arbogast (2022) outline a role for the Cooperative Extension Service—a partnership between USDA, land-grant universities, and local governments—in the co-creation of knowledge with rural destination stakeholders, establishment of rural tourism networks, and dissemination of research and best practices among local tourism stakeholders, practitioners, and scholars.…”

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An early assessment of COVID-19’s impact on tourism in U.S. counties

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We use county-level data to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the tourism and hospitality sector, which was by far the most impacted of all sectors, focusing on employment and wage changes. Results support our hypothesis that rural counties experienced fewer negative impacts or even benefited from the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of job growth . We present maps showing the pandemic’s effects on leisure and hospitality (L&H) employment across the nation, identifying the communities both hardest hit and least impacted. A linear regression model is developed to explore independent factors that influenced the pandemic’s local impact. Results are robust across different measures of the key variable (rurality), including rural-urban continuum codes, distance from metropolitan areas, and population density. We also consider the impacts of social capital, income, and local economic diversification, among other factors. Our results suggest that remote, less-populated counties were more likely to experience stable employment in the L&H sector relative to pre-pandemic levels, and in some cases even experienced employment growth. JEL Classification: J2, J3, R1

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“…However, many rural areas have long faced significant challenges: depopulation, lower average per capita income generally in rural regions compared to that of cities; the consistency of local skills is significantly more limited, and the tertiary sector is less developed; the smartening of rural areas; and sustainable economic development [47][48][49][50]. Several rural areas have implemented territorial innovation policies favouring the development of multifunctionality in various economic sectors such as tourism [51,52].…”

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Quality of Life in Rural Areas: A Set of Indicators for Improving Wellbeing

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Peira,

Pasino

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Quality of life can be generally defined as people’s satisfaction with their lives and personal wellbeing. Contemporary literature agrees that dimensions such as health, education, employment, leisure, social relations, security, environment, landscape, and cultural heritage should be considered. Tourism serves as a stimulus for rural development, and assessing residents’ and tourists’ quality of life is relevant for local administrators of a tourist destination. Given the absence of quality-of-life models for individual municipalities, the research questions were aimed at the mapping of quality-of-life frameworks and the construction of a set of quality-of-life indicators for Alagna Valsesia. This research was conducted in 2023. The results of the research showed the possibility of constructing a modular model of indicator sets aimed particularly at decision making by territorial policymakers. The limitations of the research are related to the difficulty of finding different indicators in public platforms and, in the future, we would like to build a synthetic indicator replicable in other Piedmontese and Italian municipalities.

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Rural Destination Management Innovation and Collaboration in Appalachia

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An early assessment of COVID-19’s impact on tourism in U.S. counties

An early assessment of COVID-19’s impact on tourism in U.S. counties

Quality of Life in Rural Areas: A Set of Indicators for Improving Wellbeing

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