tourism

Technological transformation, culinary tourism and stakeholder engagement: emerging trends from a systematic literature review

Purpose – This paper aims to pinpoint the technological transformation impact on food as the cultural
phenomenon for destination brand identity and management as the novel approach for the stakeholder causal
scope (SCS) analysis in culinary tourism. Thus, this paper attempts to answer the following research question:
What is the role of technological transformation in addressing stakeholder engagement of culinary tourism?
Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on the systematic two-decade literature review

The potential dynamics of “Albergo Diffuso” as relaunch of sustainable tourism in the Post COVID-19 era

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a disruptive effect on tourism due to mobility restrictions in all world regions. During Summer 2020, full exploitation of sustainable and safe local tourism is expected. The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the “albergo diffuso” (AD) (translation scattered hotel) contribute to the economic recovery, during the "post COVID-19 time". To comply with the paper aim we use a qualitative research method based on a single case study. Primary data are collected by semi-structured interviews with apical figures of our case study.

Competitiveness and sustainability in tourism industry: the "albergo diffuso" case study

The objective of the analysis developed in this paper is to verify whether the sustainability of the hotel ospitality model contributes to the competitiveness of tourist destinations. The research question is: does the model of “albergo diffuso” satisfy the requirement for a social, economic and environmental sustainability? The research method adopted consisted in a survey with the submission of a questionnaire to a number of alberghi diffusi operating worldwide, that is 130 units of analysis. The submission period went from October to December 2016.

Del viajero al turista hiperconectado. From the Traveler to the Hyperconnected Tourist

This article tries to clarify the contrast between the contemporary tourist figure and
the romantic traveler. From a conceptual and theoretical framework, it is our aim to
establish a critical apparatus to problematize the influence of new media in the experience of
travel nowadays, as a part of the Industry of Culture. From categories of analysis such as the
unexpected, the travel as a personal transformation or the authenticity, our essay deals with
a critical perspective of the hyperconnected tourist, specially through the smartphone, from

Megapolis Minsk. City, landscape, and tourism in the transition from Soviet city to contemporary city / Megapolis Minsk. Città, paesaggio, turismo nel passaggio dalla città sovietica alla città contemporanea

È un progetto di ricerca congiunto centrato sulle problematiche urbane della città e della regione di Minsk e del paese bielorusso nel momento in cui questi, all’indomani della lunga stagione sovietica si

The Contribution of Architecture to the Definition of the Idea of Non-urban Space: Italian Countryside, from the Early Rural Reforms to the Present Post-rural Perspectives

Countryside and architecture are rarely presented jointly in discussing advancement and innovation in architectural design and they are usually discussed in different cultural contexts and scholars' specialisations (rationalism, vernacular, neo-realism, picturesque, etc.). Today in Italy and in several other regions globally, the integration of the rural and the urban no longer corresponds to just the close functional connection and spatial complementarity related to production of agricultural goods and city wealth.

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