Estimating the Economic Impacts of a Small-Scale Sport Tourism Event: The Case of the Italo-Swiss Mountain Trail CollonTrek

Duglio, Stefano; Beltramo, Riccardo

doi:10.3390/su9030343

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“…Several winter and summer mountain sports were investigated by researchers based worldwide [59][60][61], and their papers focus on a wide range of subjects, i.e., sport tourism events and their economic impact [62,63], climate change and winter sports [64,65] or health aspects of sports activities in mountain regions, such as high altitude illness [66][67][68][69][70][71], thrombosis and pulmonary embolism [72], hand injuries [73,74] or facial traumas [75,76]. Moreover, some studies list many sports activities that can be practiced in mountain areas in winter and summer, such as mountaineering, climbing, downhill skiing, alpine skiing, ski mountaineering, hiking, cross-country biking, mountain racing, paragliding, canyoning and snowboarding [75,[77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85].…”

Section: Mountain Tourism and Sportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability and Mountain Tourism: The Millennial’s Perspective

2017

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Abstract:Evidence from several studies illustrates the different points of view through which sustainability and mountains have been studied over the years. Nowadays, interest in Millennials is increasing but no research has compared Millennials and sustainability in the mountain context. This study aims at defining sustainability with reference to Millennial perception of both winter and summer mountain sports. By analysing data gathered from a sample of 2292 Millennials (Piedmont area), the authors confirm their high degree of sensitivity towards sustainable issues and, above all, discover that there are differences in the sustainable perception Millennials have of both mountain winter and summer sports. More specifically, Millennial perception is deeply influenced by the place where they are used to living-mountains or cities-and by their gender. From a managerial point of view, results have direct implications on the administrators of mountain institutions who can implement appropriate initiatives in order to correctly sensitise Millennials towards mountain sports. Moreover, from a theoretical perspective, the study opens a new scenario on two important topics linked to sustainability, namely Millennials and mountain sports.

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Section: Mountain Tourism and Sportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability and Mountain Tourism: The Millennial’s Perspective

2017

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“…The stakeholder groups including commercial firms and professional teams express their brand identity through internal and external marketing efforts. Most of CSR projects are planned and enacted as part of internal marketing efforts, which are designed to motivate employees and workers to adopt a heightened customer orientation [1,23,24]. As seen from recent examples, most mega-sports events are criticized for their negative impact on environmental sustainability and on sustainable use of their venues [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Sustainability is an important issue for all sporting events in the global sport industry [1,2]. Similar to establishing sustainable sport organizations, achieving sustainability in sports events requires effective management, political leadership, and ensuring that all stakeholders adhere to a sustainable philosophy [2,3].…”

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“…In other words, being committed to CSR has been a way of increasing public recognition for the multiple facets of sustainability. Hence, CSR projects of the stakeholders in a sponsored global sporting event could possibly bring positive social impacts including for the hosting region's image/reputation, brand images of commercial partners, and other relevant stakeholder groups [1,13]. Sport events have been recognized as communication outlets for stakeholder groups due to the enormous media attention and social facilitation they promote.…”

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Images of Stakeholder Groups Based on Their Environmental Sustainability Linked CSR Projects: A Meta-Analytic Review of Korean Sport Literature

Kim

2017

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Achieving sustainability in sports events requires effective management, political leadership, and ensuring that all stakeholders adhere to a sustainable philosophy. In order to stage a mega-event, tremendous infrastructure and construction are required with significant consumption of private and public resources. Multiple stakeholder groups are recognized as key entities responsible for an efficient trigger of a mega-event. The aim of this study is to conduct a systematic review of Korean sport literature with regard to CSR practices (ES-linked) of different stakeholder groups and examine through a meta-analytic methodology their impact on the "images" of these groups. The CMA program was utilized as the main analysis tool to calculate the effect sizes from the selected empirical studies. The results indicated that CSR performance of governmental organizations had the highest effect size level on their own image (brand identity) as perceived by visitors and participants. Among the stakeholder groups, effect size levels of their CSR performances were followed by those of corporate sponsors and professional teams. It was found that stakeholder groups are pressured to maintain a balance between financial performance, consumer well-being, and brand identity to bring in external investment.

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“…This typology of tourism should be respectful of the principles and values of those who have been working for generations in the alpine farming [58][59][60].…”

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Can Livestock Farming and Tourism Coexist in Mountain Regions? A New Business Model for Sustainability

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European Mediterranean mountain regions have been characterized by a sort of competition between the tourism sector and the agro-silvo-pastoral system, which in recent years has contributed to generate a continuous decline of the second one. Nevertheless, Pasture-based Livestock Farming Systems (PLSFS) are relevant for their role in the management and conservation of large High Nature Value (HNV) farmlands in Europe. The goal of our research is therefore to analyze what are the main features of farming organizations in the Italian alpine mountains and how they may be combined into inovative and sustainable business models (BM), characterized by the coexistence of agro-silvo-pastoral and touristic activities. By drawing upon the BM definition suggested by the Bocken's et al. (2014), an exploratory case study has been analyzed; in particular, we propose the case study of the Lanzo Valleys, an alpine mountain region in the northwest of Italy, and the Toma di Lanzo Producers Association. The way a concrete and sustainable innovation in the more traditional BM could be supported only by the proactive intervention of a supra-farm dimension, while maintaining the peculiarities of the individual farms, is clearly shown in the article. A system of firms and institutions linked together in a collaborative relationship may represent a strong network, able to achieve the common goal of producing a sustainable development for the territory. Indeed, environment and cultural heritage may be preserved, as well as the economic perspective of farms reinforced, while the PLSFS could become more attractive for the tourism phenomenon. Interesting implications for farmers, policy makers and local institutions are identified.

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Estimating the Economic Impacts of a Small-Scale Sport Tourism Event: The Case of the Italo-Swiss Mountain Trail CollonTrek

Cited by 90 publications

References 31 publications

Sustainability and Mountain Tourism: The Millennial’s Perspective

Sustainability and Mountain Tourism: The Millennial’s Perspective

Images of Stakeholder Groups Based on Their Environmental Sustainability Linked CSR Projects: A Meta-Analytic Review of Korean Sport Literature

Can Livestock Farming and Tourism Coexist in Mountain Regions? A New Business Model for Sustainability

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