The aims of this study were (i) to evaluate the relationship between official data on invasive meningococcal disease cases in Sardinia and the reporting of the cases by a regional online newspaper and (ii) to identify indicators useful for understanding the community outrage related to health events. Cases of meningococcal disease, selected from articles published between 1999 and 2016 on a regional newspaper database, were compared to those reported to the Infectious Disease Information Service. In order to evaluate the equality of the two distribution records, the Kolgomorov Smirnov test for two samples was applied. A community outrage indicator was obtained by calculating the number of published articles for each case of meningococcal disease identified. The outrage indicator was evaluated in comparison with other phenomena: drinking water supply limitation and domestic accidents. Overall, 2724 articles on meningitis/sepsis referring to 89 cases related to meningococcal disease were considered. Significant differences between the distribution of cases officially reported and those found in the newspaper (combined K-S = 0.39; p = 0.08) were not observed. The meningococcal disease outrage indicator showed an average of seven items per case. Comparing the meningococcal disease outrage indicator with those regarding the limitation of drinking water supplies and domestic accidents, a different risk perception by the reference media was found, with the highest outrage for meningococcal disease. The present study supports the role played by emotional factors as behavioral determinants in emerging threats to public health. The analysis of the data allowed us to highlight that the proposed outrage indicator could be a feasible proxy of emotional epidemiology. Finally, data confirm that meningitis is perceived as a highly outrageous health threat.

The current tourism scenario, tried and distorted by the Covid-19 pandemic, leads to accelerate the transformations already underway in pre-pandemic destinations and to develop innovative digitalization and communication strategies to convert the capabilities of the territory into success factors. The aim of this work is to show how valuable territorial capital, organized in a systemic way, appropriately told and conveyed through digitized information tools, can represent a strategic lever to raise the tourist competitiveness of an area, encourage the conscious use of resources, encourage micro-entrepreneurship linked to traditional sustainable production and stimulating partnerships between companies belonging to the various sectors. In this regard, the LoQual Explorer model is presented, a tool designed to facilitate the tourist-consumer in acquiring information on "local" and "quality" goods and services of a given territory; finally, its application in the Sardinian city of Alghero is illustrated.

Trust has emerged as a key factor in any virtual transaction. Therefore, the protection of trustworthiness should be a central matter of concern in the online tourism sector, especially in emerging and, hence, more fragile markets such as nautical tourism. In this study, an exploratory investigation was conducted of four online sailing platforms using an inductive content analysis of the data collected. The goal was to examine cybersecurity-related indicators that may affect trustworthiness of the platforms. To this end, the study focused on two freely accessible types of information: the level of transaction security and the level of concern for personal privacy. Given that it may be unclear to many users how a small text file (a cookie) created by a website and stored in the user's computer can affect the user’s privacy, an interdisciplinary disclosive computer ethics approach was used for unveiling the risk related to cookies, especially third-party cookies, or web trackers. Interestingly, geopolitical and geoeconomic correlations were noted when interpreting the findings from a geographical point of view, although it was concluded that more research is needed to better understand the phenomenon. However, notwithstanding the relatively limited sample, this work offers valuable insights into a systematic understanding of how cybersecurity contributes to increased trust and, hence, improved competitiveness.

Desde hace años asistimos al descubrimiento de itinerarios culturales y religiosos, considerados instrumentos capaces de favorecer el desarrollo local sostenible. Su valor es principalmente turístico, y en Italia existen numerosas iniciativas. El presente trabajo se centra en las efectuadas por la Región de Cerdeña para la estructuración de productos e itinerarios orientados al mercado del turismo religioso. A partir del análisis de la literatura científica, se subraya la potencialidad turística de las rutas religiosas, prestando especial atención al Camino de Santu Jacu, que atraviesa toda la región. El método y los instrumentos deinvestigación son los de la geografía económica, que contempla el recurso a indicadores estadísticos y a los Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG). Mediante las elaboraciones realizadas, el trabajo destaca cómo los caminos religiosos pueden contribuir a aumentar la competitividad regional si reciben apoyo y promoción a partir de acciones específicas y políticas de desarrollo local.