The geography of tourism and leisure in Italy

Pedrini, L

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“…Salento is a destination of growing popularity, characterised by the combination of environmental and natural factors, cultural heritage, craftsmanship, wineries and infrastructures. In accordance to the theory of Pedrini (1984), Salento is a geographical area with a tourism vocation. The relevance of the destination is confirmed by the large number of arrivals registered every year as well as by the growing popularity on international and national markets for its boats seas, beaches, natural reserve and folkloric traditions.…”

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Extracting insights from big social data for smarter tourism destination management

Solazzo

Maruccia

Lorenzo

et al. 2021

MBE

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Purpose This paper aims to highlight how big social data (BSD) and analytics exploitation may help destination management organisations (DMOs) to understand tourist behaviours and destination experiences and images. Gathering data from two different sources, Flickr and Twitter, textual and visual contents are used to perform different analytics tasks to generate insights on tourist behaviour and the affective aspects of the destination image. Design/methodology/approach This work adopts a method based on a multimodal approach on BSD and analytics, considering multiple BSD sources, different analytics techniques on heterogeneous data types, to obtain complementary results on the Salento region (Italy) case study. Findings Results show that the generated insights allow DMOs to acquire new knowledge about discovery of unknown clusters of points of interest, identify trends and seasonal patterns of tourist demand, monitor topic and sentiment and identify attractive places. DMOs can exploit insights to address its needs in terms of decision support for the management and development of the destination, the enhancement of destination attractiveness, the shaping of new marketing and communication strategies and the planning of tourist demand within the destination. Originality/value The originality of this work is in the use of BSD and analytics techniques for giving DMOs specific insights on a destination in a deep and wide fashion. Collected data are used with a multimodal analytic approach to build tourist characteristics, images, attitudes and preferred destination attributes, which represent for DMOs a unique mean for problem-solving, decision-making, innovation and prediction.

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Extracting insights from big social data for smarter tourism destination management

Solazzo

Maruccia

Lorenzo

et al. 2021

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“…Their coastlines are rich in diversified coasts and alternating beaches, while inland, they exhibit different peculiarities due to their multitude of natural and cultural resources. In particular, Pedrini's [47] definition of a region with a tourism vocation with its combination of favourable environmental factors, cultural heritage, agro-food, and accessibility is well-suited to the four countries [14,46,[48][49][50][51][52].…”

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A Methodological Framework for Developing a Smart-Tourism Destination in the Southeastern Adriatic–Ionian Area

2023

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This paper presents a methodological framework aiming to support the creation of a smart-tourism destination. Specifically, the study is realised in the frame of NEST, a European Union Interreg project aiming to create a smart-tourism destination in the Adriatic–Ionian area. Therefore, the study focuses on the southeastern Adriatic–Ionian area, as a portion of the European macro-region including the Italian regions of Molise and Apulia and the Balkan countries of Albania and Montenegro. This area presents a clear vocation for tourism, with a distinctive cultural heritage, attractive natural landscapes, and old culinary traditions offering a variety of eno-gastronomic and folk craft products. In the frame of the EU neighbour policies and in coherence with the objectives of the EU smart specialization strategy, several initiatives have been promoted for innovating the tourism offering in this area. Despite this, the full achievement of the creation of an Adriatic–Ionian smart destination calls for the adoption of a multidimensional strategy able to leverage knowledge-intensive dynamics of collaboration. This paper, therefore, aims to highlight the opportunities of adoptions and implications of this methodological framework for the cross-border marketing and management of the Adriatic–Ionian smart destination.

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“…The Apulia region is characterized by natural, cultural and agri-food heritage and boasts, among other amenities, long coasts and beaches, three UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) sites, natural and marine reserves, a rich gastronomic and wine tradition (Del Vecchio and Passiante, 2017), many natural protected areas (Buongiorno and Intini, 2021) and historical monuments, churches and castles. In addition, based on the initiative of the Tourism Council of the National Association of Italian Municipalities (ANCI), 14 out of the 100 most beautiful villages elected by the association "I Borghi pi u belli d'Italia" is located in Apulia, highlighting its significant role in the Italian tourism (Giordano, 2020) and its tourist vocation, defined as a "favourable combination of environmental factors" (Pedrini, 1984;Del Vecchio and Passiante, 2017). At current, despite agriculture represents the Apulian main and most profitable activity, the tourism industry is growing steadily (Lo Storto, 2019), as shown by over 3.3 million inbound tourists in 2021, for about 13.8 million spent nights (4.8% of the Italian tourism) (Istat, 2022a, b).…”

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Sustainable and circular practices in the hotel industry in Southern Italy: opportunities, barriers and trends in food waste management

Lagioia,

Amicarelli,

Strippoli

et al. 2023

BFJ

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PurposeThe hotel industry is one of the leading producers of waste worldwide, and more than one-third of that waste is food. The purpose of this study is to investigate hotel managers' awareness of sustainable and circular practices, with a focus on their attitude toward and perception of food waste in Apulia, Southern Italy. The region has a tourist vocation, accounts for 3.3 million tourists per year and plays a key role in the Italian tourism.Design/methodology/approachThe study was conducted using a questionnaire administered to ten hotel managers located in Apulia. In light of the Checkup Tool Speditivo, a sustainability score indicates managers' awareness of and attitude toward sustainability and circularity, distinguishing between “beginner” (0–25 points), “concerned” (26–50 points), “proactivist” (51–75 points) and “sustainable” (76–100 points). The results have been analyzed using descriptive statistic tools.FindingsThe average sustainability score indicating the level of awareness of sustainable and circular practices among hotel managers in Apulia was 84, whereas the average score associated with their attitude toward food waste management strategies was 65. The greater the number of stars, the higher the sustainability scores. However, the greater the number of rooms, the lower the attitude toward food waste management strategies.Originality/valueThe study sheds light on the main opportunities, barriers and trends in the field of food waste management, highlighting the food commodities which are wasted the most and proposing further strategies to improve circularity and sustainability in hotels. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this study is the first on such topics in Southern Italy and could represent the basis for future research on the topic.

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The geography of tourism and leisure in Italy

Cited by 18 publications

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Extracting insights from big social data for smarter tourism destination management

Extracting insights from big social data for smarter tourism destination management

A Methodological Framework for Developing a Smart-Tourism Destination in the Southeastern Adriatic–Ionian Area

Sustainable and circular practices in the hotel industry in Southern Italy: opportunities, barriers and trends in food waste management

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