Information Content, Interactivity, and Online Popularity of the Websites of World Heritage Sites: Evidence from France, Italy, and Spain

Contu, Giulia; Conversano, Claudio; Frigau, Luca; Molà, Francesco

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“…In engaging the community and providing services for tourists' though innovative communication technologies become one of positive factors. The use of ICTs as tools of smart tourism development [114][115][116], and for gathering knowledge and information about heritage sites [40], is a part of similar activities carried out in many countries and has a positive dimension [117,118]. Gathering information is very relevant in the case of UBH; it is a way to overcome issues of concerns and fears to be in the underground [18].…”

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Creating Tourism Destinations of Underground Built Heritage—The Cases of Salt Mines in Poland, Portugal, and Romania

2021

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Salt mines, a significant category of local, regional, national, and/or European underground heritage, are becoming attractive tourism destinations. This paper examines three cases of salt mining in different European countries, namely Wieliczka in Poland, Campina de Cima in Portugal, and Turda in Romania. They are analyzed in the context of history, typical attributes of their attractiveness, and new uses after the salt extraction was or is going to be stopped, in order to detect their unique values as important assets for both Underground Built Heritage (UBH) and Salt Heritage Tourism (SHT). The results of their comparison show that despite a positive impact related to their protection as cultural and industrial heritage, there are also some negative aspects related to increasing costs of their maintenance and adaptation of salt mines to new functions and to meet the tourism needs. By putting in place measures to enhance the awareness of their values and for activating the local community, the three mines are showcases for the economic outputs for their sites and regions, as well as for increasing knowledge regarding UBH.

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Creating Tourism Destinations of Underground Built Heritage—The Cases of Salt Mines in Poland, Portugal, and Romania

2021

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“…Interaction and user-friendliness are essential to guarantee the quality of website communications (Adams and Frost, 2006; Contu et al , 2019; Fernández-Uclés et al , 2019; Ye et al , 2019). Non-specialised websites should use a direct language and they should rely on systems that engage Internet users in an implicit dialogue (i.e.…”

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Measuring environmental website communications in Latin American universities: multimodal and ecolinguistic benchmarking

Fernández-Vázquez¹

2021

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Purpose This paper aims to explore the current state of website environmental communications in Latin American universities through a benchmarking operational tool. The study considers how these universities communicate their environmental policies as an act of corporate social responsibility and to improve their public image. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 80 top-ranked Latin American universities was considered. Environmental websites were evaluated in terms of information quality, multimodal design and stakeholder engagement. The research method follows the theoretical foundations of critical discourse analysis, multimodal studies and ecolinguistics. Findings A total of 59% of the universities have opened environmental websites. However, many of them have poor content and interactivity. Latin American universities obtain low scores in several objective criteria which measure the efficiency of website environmental communications. Practical implications The findings can help university administrators to improve the quality and effectiveness of online environmental communications. Some practical recommendations are given and examples of good practice can be emulated. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first study that analyses the situation of website environmental communications in a large sample of Latin American universities. The development of an operational benchmarking tool invites further comparative studies, which may contribute to a wider picture of environmental communications.

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“…Each instance represents one MLB player. The variables are related to the numbers of Errors, Putouts, and Assists made by each player. The Unesco website dataset 70,71 includes information about Unesco Tourism Websites (UTWs). In particular, it has been created in 2016 by manually collecting data from 142 websites dedicated to 137 cultural and natural heritages of UNESCO located in France (41 UTWs), Italy (52 UTWs), and Spain (49 UTWs).…”

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Network‐based semisupervised clustering

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Semisupervised clustering extends standard clustering methods to the semisupervised setting, in some cases considering situations when clusters are associated with a given outcome variable that acts as a “noisy surrogate,” that is a good proxy of the unknown clustering structure. In this article, a novel approach to semisupervised clustering associated with an outcome variable named network‐based semisupervised clustering (NeSSC) is introduced. It combines an initialization, a training and an agglomeration phase. In the initialization and training a matrix of pairwise affinity of the instances is estimated by a classifier. In the agglomeration phase the matrix of pairwise affinity is transformed into a complex network, in which a community detection algorithm searches the underlying community structure. Thus, a partition of the instances into clusters highly homogeneous in terms of the outcome is obtained. We consider a particular specification of NeSSC that uses classification or regression trees as classifiers and the Louvain, Label propagation and Walktrap as possible community detection algorithm. NeSSC's stopping criterion and the choice of the optimal partition of the original data are also discussed. Several applications on both real and simulated data are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed semisupervised clustering method and the benefits it provides in terms of improved interpretability of results with respect to three alternative semisupervised clustering methods.

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Information Content, Interactivity, and Online Popularity of the Websites of World Heritage Sites: Evidence from France, Italy, and Spain

Cited by 3 publications

References 66 publications

Creating Tourism Destinations of Underground Built Heritage—The Cases of Salt Mines in Poland, Portugal, and Romania

Creating Tourism Destinations of Underground Built Heritage—The Cases of Salt Mines in Poland, Portugal, and Romania

Measuring environmental website communications in Latin American universities: multimodal and ecolinguistic benchmarking

Network‐based semisupervised clustering

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