Territorial Tourism Research Articles

Implementation Requirements Of State Marketing In Tourist Territories

The present article is dedicated to the issue of implementation of State Marketing requirements in tourist territories, which is very important nowadays. It also reflects the main issues sensible in this sphere.

The 2.0 Marketing Strategies for Wine Tourism Destinations of Excellence

The aim of this paper is to empirically research the use of Web 2.0 applications in the communication strategies of wine tourism destinations of excellence; main attention will be focused on the integration of these tools within the “official” destination websites. The main research questions are: (1) Do wine tourism destinations of excellence worldwide make use of Web 2.0 tools in their official websites? (2) Is it possible to estimate the degree of intensity of use of such tools? The method used for the purpose of this research is inductive: starting from the observation of some specific cases we wanted to implement a scoring model that, taking into account the presence and intensity of the use of Web 2.0 tools selected by the wine tourism destinations of excellence, could be replicated in different contexts from the one analyzed here. The study reveals the interest in the tools of Web 2.0 by the institutional bodies responsible for management of destinations; however it also shows that there is not a full awareness of the scope of strategic and organizational development in the web 2.0 applications resulting in the relationship with potential visitors and those who have already experienced a tourist territory.

Gestão de turismo, cultura e identidades religiosas: ensaio de um novo conceito com base na compreensão do território

Tourism has been perceived by international organizations as an activity with great potential to promote economic development, as well as to enhance cultures and the preservation of natural landscapes. In Bahia State, Brazil, according to the national and international guidelines, tourism is understood as an industry with great potential to generate jobs and revenue, and is strengthened through the promotion of cultural diversity that is associated with the syncretism of Catholicism and Candomblé religions. To understand the management of tourism in the setting that combines culture, religion and territorial development, this essay points out limitations in both theoretical concepts available in the literature: the concept of cultural tourism, and the concept of religious tourism. A new concept is proposed: ‘tourism in territories of high religious density’. This interdisciplinary essay engages the understanding of the fields of anthropology and geography for management. It concludes that the theoretical discussion has an explanatory potential for the tourism activities in other territorial scales and contexts.

Mass Tourism Development on the Mediterranean Coast

Report on a joint meeting of the Research Group for Sustainability and Territory of the University of the Balearic Islands, the Research Group on Territorial Analysis and Tourism Studies of Rovira ...

Recursos territoriales y procesos geográficos: el ejemplo de los recursos turísticos

The concept of resource, with a long geographical tradition, and essential to understand society-space relations, has lost presence when explaining the processes of functionalization, occupancy and transformation of the territory. The idea here is to remark the explicative potential of the concept but also its complexity and the need of including it in a wider framework that considers cultural, social, economical and technical processes, as well as the agents involved and their interests and capabilities. Bringing the existence up of a main geographical subject in the degree of Tourism called Territorial Tourist Resources, at the end of this text the conceptual approaching is specifically illustrated with geographical resources for tourism.

O PATRIMÔNIO CULTURAL E AS NOVAS TERRITORIALIDADES TURÍSTICAS EM COMUNIDADE RURAIS: UMA REALIDADE EMERGENTE NO DISTRITO DE RINCÃO DA CRUZ – MUNICÍPIO DE PELOTAS/RS

O presente trabalho tem como proposta analisar o patrimônio cultural, entendido como sendo material, imaterial e natural, existente no território do Distrito de Rincão da Cruz, município de Pelotas/RS, que, refuncionalizado para a demanda turística, constituam ingredientes na construção de propostas de desenvolvimento local. Igualmente, verificar mecanismos de organização, planejamento e gestão do território turístico pelo poder público e pelas iniciativas locais dos habitantes da área rural, a partir de uma discussão em que os próprios habitantes da comunidade rural sejam os promotores das atividades turísticas no lugar. No tocante a produção teórica, pretende-se realizar uma reflexão sobre patrimônio cultural e turismo em comunidades rurais, buscando contribuir com uma abordagem geográfica da temática.

10.1007/s11507-008-2011-2

The paper considers procedural aspects of land potential estimation when forming tourist and recreation territories allotted for tourist and recreation zones.

Recreational Nature Use of the Karpato-Podilskiy region

The authors offer their own methods to evaluate recreational nature use within the Karpato-Podilskiy region of Ukraine, which includes Vinnytska, Zakarpatska, Ivano-Frankivska, Lvivska, Ternopilska, Khmelnytska and Chernivetska administrative regions. The factors that form modern interdependent and mutually conditioned structural model of recreational nature use are thoroughly and consistently analyzed. The territory favorability/non-favorability for recreational nature use shall become clear when its A + B + C + D parameters are estimated. Evaluation of the territory natural conditions (A) is carried out proceeding from evaluation of the following indices: A1 – the territory cultural assimilation; A2 – the territory originality and exotica; A3 – the territory tourism capacity in satisfaction of the recreant’s needs; B – the territory historic-cultural objects’ analysis; C – the level of consumer service within the territory; D – the territory “recreational popularity”. The above factors form a complex parameter of the territory recreational nature use. Systematic use of the traditional, as well as projecting of the perspective places for recreation and tourism would only win if we know the figures for the load experienced by the tourismrecreation route (area). The tourism-recreation load (N) represents a proportion of the integral index (S) of recreational nature use (A + A1 + A2 + A3 + B + C), and the days (M) spent within said route. Thus, the formula: N = S/M, where S stands for the sum of A + A1 + A2 + A3 + B + C, and M represents days spent by the recreant within the route, helps us see the extent to which this or that route (area) is loaded. The author accentuates upon the importance of rational use as well as on preservation of the model of recreational nature use representing the product of nature, the ethnos’ ageslong artwork, an original memory of the society’s natural, material and spiritual culture.

Destination Development

This paper discusses tourism in Singapore, and Dubai, both relatively small and wealthy territories which have achieved considerable success in attracting international visitors. Tourism resources and policies are compared to reveal similarities and differences in their attractions bases and infrastructures. There is also evidence of a common commitment to growth and a willingness to intervene and invest on the part of governments. Application of the life cycle model, however, suggests that they are at contrasting stages in the development process. Singapore is attempting to avert stagnation while Dubai is growing at a fairly rapid pace. These positions pose particular challenges and the future evolution of the states as tourist destinations is uncertain, despite official efforts to shape it.

Definition of a territorial tourist attractiveness index: a multivariate statistical approach

Theoretical and effective tourist attractiveness should be evaluated at a very detailed territorial level. For this reason, we propose a selection of statistical variables measured at the municipality level, useful for the calculation of a tourist index on the basis of three compared statistical techniques. An empirical effort has been carried out on the 64 municipalities belonging to the Foggia province, with reference to year 2002. Finally, we have often stressed the operative usefulness of the final tourist indexes, both to correctly classify municipalities from a tourist point of view and to render easier the identification of the so called Sistemi Turistici Locali (STL).

Tourism politics in Ceará and professional training

O desenvolvim en to e a diversificação do turismo no Ceará assumem a feição de uma política pública, devido razões que socialm en te justificam a ação governam en tal numa perspectiva estratégica e estruturante para criar condições de produção de territórios turísticos, apoiando-se em ações destinadas à segm en tação econômica e à desconcentração espacial de seus produtos turísticos. O PRODETUR-CE e o PAT, cauda tários das orientações do PRODETUR IS , constituem dois programas operadores do plane jam ento de longo prazo da SETUR-CE, calcado numa concepção da produção social da atratividade turística. Tendo em vista que aqueles territórios impactados constituem frentes pioneiras da parcial m odernização econômica e cultural, e considerando as especificidades sócio-culturais da população cearense, os padrões de qualidade exigidos pelos serviços turísticos sofrem constrangimentos, daí que esse trabalho produziu um quadro de referências visando subsidiar a compreensão de problemas, que devido àquelas especificidades, dificultam uma adequada qualificação das pessoas, necessária, contudo, aos níveis de excelência, requeridos para a consolidação do turismo no Ceará

Tourism Policy in Australia's Northern Territory: A Policy Process Analysis of its Tourism Development Masterplan

In the past 15 years, the Northern Territory (NT) has become internationally renowned as one of Australia's important tourist regions. Remoteness, vast distances, spectacular scenery, diverse flora and fauna, the sparsely populated outback as well as the unique Aboriginal culture are all part of the tourist image of the NT. With the Northern Territory Tourism Development Masterplan (TDMP), now the foundation of NT tourism policy, the government recognised the need for better strategic planning to further develop and manage the resources which underpin the attractiveness of the Territory as a tourist destination. This paper explores the tourism policy process of the TDMP in greater detail by employing the policy cycle model as a tool for a descriptive analysis which highlights the character of the process and explains the dynamics of the process tourism policy and decision making. The analysis, which also takes into account the specific NT policy environment, reveals a pattern of strong government patronage and the primacy of economic thinking.

Représentations spatiales et dénominations des territoires : l'inscription toponymique des aménagements touristiques récents dans les Alpes du Nord (Savoie)

Summary. — Space becomes territory when sense is given to it. Within the process of territorialisation, denomination plays an essential part, while the concept of representation allows an interpretation of the act of denomination. Taking Savoy as an example, the authors strive to show how tourist territories appear and are built in space through the denomination of places and things. The notions of "over-localisation" and "délocalisation" are shown to be fundamental to tourism; they allow a different understanding of the present alpine space.

Tourism in Canada's Northwest Territories

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