Managing a tourism destination as a viable complex system. The case of Arbatax Park

Iandolo, Francesca; Fulco, Irene; Bassano, Clara; D’Amore, Raffaele

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.02.019

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“…The territory can be conceived as an ecosystem of services in which heterogeneous actors (institutions, local administrators, economic operators, tourists and citizens) interact and integrate resources at different levels, which requires aware territorial policies and action models aimed at rethinking the paths of development of the territory and its components (Barile et al, 2019;Iandolo et al, 2019;Simone et al, al., 2021).…”

Section: Institutionalization As a Driver For Territorial Development And Value-in-context In A Service Ecosystem Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The high environmental complexity pushes management theorists and practitioners to focus their cognitive efforts on issues calling for the adoption of territorial governance models oriented towards an increased interaction and collaboration among all actors involved in value creation processes (Barile et al, 2019;Iandolo et al, 2019;Mahajan, 2016;Simone et al, 2018).…”

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‘La Città ideale’ as a Set of New Institutionalized Resources Integration Practices—Insights from a Pilot Project of the Sicily Region

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Carrubbo

Megaro

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Journal of Creating Value

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This study aims to investigate whether and how institutions can contribute to generate value at a territorial level and in which way this value may fit with value-in-business. Starting from the conceptualization of value generation and its relationship with territorial development according to service ecosystem perspective, this study aims to present and discuss an experimental project carried out in a specific Italian area to better understand these main theoretical issues. Specifically, the Sicily region is significant for the genetic factors of the context, linked to a social and cultural structure which, despite the presence of numerous obstacles to socio-economic development, strengthen the path of ‘multi-actor and multi-level’ involvement, which implies the active participation of a plurality of local actors essential to generate value for the territory and for business.

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‘La Città ideale’ as a Set of New Institutionalized Resources Integration Practices—Insights from a Pilot Project of the Sicily Region

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Megaro

et al. 2021

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“…Since the 1970s, scholars have started the research on the complexity of tourism destination systems [13]. The main research contents include the theoretical discussion of tourism complex systems [14,15], the reinterpretation of the life cycle of tourism destinations [16,17], the evolutionary process and mechanism of tourism destination systems [18,19], the planning and governance of scenic spots [20,21], and the adaptive management of tourism destinations [22,23]. In conclusion, tourism complex systems and evolution studies are still in the pre-paradigm stage of different views and theoretical disputes [24], which encourage the theoretical study of complex systems of tourist destinations through principles such as the chaos theory [17], dissipative structure theory [25], self-organization theory [26], complex network theory [27], and complex adaptive system theory [28].…”

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The Evolution of Rural Tourism in Wuhan: Complexity and Adaptability

Jing

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The complex adaptation system (CAS) theory of “adaptability to produce complexity” is a new theoretical perspective for the spatio-temporal evolution of rural tourism systems. Based on the CAS theory, the theoretical framework, structural composition, formation process, and evolution mechanism of the rural tourism complex system were examined and revealed. The suburban country region of Wuhan was taken as the area of focus for empirical research. The state of the rural tourism destination system in Wuhan has gone through various periods of development: the embryonic stage of the system (before 2000), formation (2001–2007), rapid development (2008–2015), and consolidation and transformation (since 2016). Under the environments stimulating external physical geography, social economy, market demand, and emergencies, multiple agents such as government, enterprises, residents, and tourists in Wuhan have actively adapted to the environment and other agents, and the interaction intensity and complexity have gradually increased, driving the emergence of system agent types, functional structures, and spatial patterns. The agents continue to grow, differentiate, and aggregate. The tourism product has shifted from the dominance of a rural ecological scenery and leisure agriculture to diversified development, and with the main function changing from sightseeing to leisure and vacation. The rural communities have been renovated and beautified, transforming them from a provider of rural service facilities to a co-builder of a rural-imaged tourism space.

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“…Thus, Sedarati et al [7] indicate that a systematic literature review of the papers dealing with tourism from the system's dynamics perspective revealed only 27 published from 1994 to 2015, addressing six different categories, being: multisector, attractions, adventure and outdoor recreation, transportation, accommodation and events. In addition, a brief analysis of the papers dealing with the system dynamics and chaos and complexity concepts in researching tourism and tourist destination, referenced in the Web of Science database in the period 2016-2021, has revealed just a few [8][9][10][11][12][13][14], thus indicating that the application of these concepts to tourism is still in an early development phase.…”

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System Dynamics Approach to TALC Modeling

Hell

Petrić

2021

Sustainability

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The system dynamics applied in this research on modeling a tourist destination (area) life cycle (TALC) contributes to understanding its behavior and the way that information feedback governs the use of feedback loops, delays and stocks and flows. On this basis, a system dynamic three-staged TALC model is conceptualized, with the number of visitors V as an indicator of the carrying capacities’ dynamics and the flow function V(t) to determine the TALC stages. In the first supply-dominance stage, the model indicated that arrivals are growing until the point of inflexion. After this point, arrivals continue growing (but with diminishing growth rates), indicating the beginning of the demand-dominance stage, ending up with the saturation point, i.e., the maximum number of visitors. The simulated TALC system dynamics model was then applied to five EU destinations (Living Labs) to explain their development along the observed period (2007–2019). The analysis revealed that all observed Living Labs reached the second lifecycle stage, with one entered as early as in 2015 and another in 2018. Lifecycle stage durations may significantly differ across the destinations, as do the policies used either to prevent stagnation or to restructure the offer to become more sustainable and resilient.

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Managing a tourism destination as a viable complex system. The case of Arbatax Park

Cited by 16 publications

References 23 publications

‘La Città ideale’ as a Set of New Institutionalized Resources Integration Practices—Insights from a Pilot Project of the Sicily Region

‘La Città ideale’ as a Set of New Institutionalized Resources Integration Practices—Insights from a Pilot Project of the Sicily Region

The Evolution of Rural Tourism in Wuhan: Complexity and Adaptability

System Dynamics Approach to TALC Modeling

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