Social Innovation and Sustainable Economic Development: Participatory Tourism Destination Management

Abstract

The impact of information technologies is creating a new world yet not fully understood. The extent and speed of economic, life style and social changes already perceived in everyday life is hard to estimate without understanding the technological driving forces behind it. This series presents contributed volumes featuring the latest research and development in the various information engineering technologies that play a key role in this process.The range of topics, focusing primarily on communications and computing engineering include, but are not limited to, wireless networks; mobile communication; design and learning; gaming; interaction; e-health and pervasive healthcare; energy management; smart grids; internet of things; cognitive radio networks; computation; cloud computing; ubiquitous connectivity, and in mode general smart living, smart cities, Internet of Things and more. The series publishes a combination of expanded papers selected from hosted and sponsored European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) conferences that present cutting edge, global research as well as provide new perspectives on traditional related engineering fields. This content, complemented with open calls for contribution of book titles and individual chapters, together maintain Springer's and EAI's high standards of academic excellence. The audience for the books consists of researchers, industry professionals, advanced level students as well as practitioners in related fields of activity include information and communication specialists, security experts, economists, urban planners, doctors, and in general representatives in all those walks of life affected ad contributing to the information revolution. About EAIEAI is a grassroots member organization initiated through cooperation between businesses, public, private and government organizations to address the global challenges of Europe's future competitiveness and link the European Research community with its

Creating a Tourism Destination through Local Heritage: The Stakeholders’ Priorities in the Canavese Area (Northwest Italy)

“…In many tourist destinations, the need to innovate the tourism proposal is a priority, and related solutions can be oriented to change the region's policies to have a perspective of social and environmental sustainability [33,34] and/or implement tools that can help in designing effective regional development strategies, such as in the cases of protected areas [35,36] and urban areas [37,38]. At the same time, a region characterized by a heritage that can be exploited for tourism purposes is not a tourist destination, but it can become one if there is active participation by local stakeholders oriented towards sustainable regional development [32,[39][40][41]. This approach encourages the formation of a local identity and the self-identification of citizens with their region and local resources, for tourist destinations both new and consolidated.…”

COVID-19 aftermath and tourism innovation in Western Balkans: A commentary

“…Innovation in organisational innovation (destination governance) has been unpopular, in both governmental and business circles (Nientied and Shutina, 2018). In WB, only a few tourism innovation studies were conducted (Bučar, 2017;Slivar et al, 2016;Cerović Smolović et al, 2018;Ciro et al, 2019). Innovation efforts for sustainable tourism in WB have been coming from environmentally concerned entrepreneurs and hardly from the tourism business community.…”