Tourism development in Sicily during the fascist period (1922–1943)

Cassar, Silvana

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“…The final part of this wider research embraces the same period in which sustainability and sustainable development were give impetus and made popular. The main results of these fields of investigation are expressed by Cassar (2007;2015a;, Creaco (2015a; and Cassar & Creaco (2012).…”

Section: Sustainable Tourism In Sicilymentioning

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Towards Tourism Sustainability: General Aspects and Empirical Evidence of the Italian Experience at Decentralized Level, with Specific Reference to Sicily

Cassar

Creaco

2016

Baltic Journal of European Studies

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Even though the concepts and observations underlying sustainability are not a novelty, sustainable development was given impetus and made popular in 1987 by the Brundtland Report. This report introduced development policies and strategies that acknowledged the importance of resource and environmental constraints and the limitations imposed on growth patterns. Although sustainable development proved difficult to define and make operative, the concept was progressively applied to those economic sectors which had major detrimental effects on income, employment and wealth. Sustainable tourism was effectively one part of the effort to take full account of the current and future economic, social and environmental impacts of the sector, addressing the needs of visitors, industry, environment and host communities. After reviewing the main questions referring to the environmental, economic and social aspects of tourism development, this paper tries to identify a balanced indicator showing the impact of tourist accommodation facilities and related infrastructure in Sicily in terms of the three fundamental pillars of sustainability. Based on this indicator, the ranking of the nine Sicilian provinces is provided. In a wider perspective, the proposed approach is applied to make a comparison of tourism sustainability in Sicily and in other Italian regions.

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Section: Sustainable Tourism In Sicilymentioning

confidence: 98%

Towards Tourism Sustainability: General Aspects and Empirical Evidence of the Italian Experience at Decentralized Level, with Specific Reference to Sicily

Cassar

Creaco

2016

Baltic Journal of European Studies

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“…In the Mediterranean world, social changes led to the emergence of new destinations such as Ibiza or Sicily, fully focused on middle-and upper-middle-class tourism, and the definitive transformation of Majorca into a destination that did not have the slightest aristocratic connotation (Cassar, 2009;Cirer, 2014aCirer, , 2021. It should be noted that in all the new destinations, beaches and outdoor activities were gaining ground until they became the central attraction (Hardy, 1990;Urry, 1991).…”

Section: Creation Of Mass Sun-andbeach Tourismmentioning

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Creation of mass sun-and-beach tourism in Spain: the definition of the tourist product through architecture

Cirer Costa

2023

JHRM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze Spain’s success in developing mass tourism between 1950 and 1965. Design/methodology/approach This analysis will be carried out from a marketing point of view using the paradigm of the four Ps: product, price, promotion and place, but focusing on the product since, as will be seen, the three other variables had a much lesser impact at that early stage. The product, in holiday tourism, is the destination, a combination in which the main protagonist is the hotel. The authors will analyse the main characteristics of the tourist accommodation on offer in Majorca and Ibiza in two ways: by studying the general statistics on the one hand, and on the other, through the detailed description of two hotel projects focused on the same tourist market but conceptually very different. In the first, a British design from 1956, we see the seed of what could have been and was not. Spain could have been filled with enclave-type tourist destinations with little connection to the local economic network. The second hotel design, on the other hand, shows us the ideal establishment for the exploitation of mass tourism in open destinations. Findings In Spain, mass tourism was explosively successful because the local business community was able to offer a very attractive product. Originality/value The authors use the architectural designs of two hotels as the central axis of the description of the Spanish tourism product.

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“…), there was significant investment in tourism infrastructure which, not only included the mountain road from Nicolosi (see section 2. ), but also the construction of a new luxury hotel -the Grande Albergo dell'Etna -in 1936, the promotion of winter sports, a road that ascended the mountain from Randazzo and a new railway from Giardini to Randazzo which was only completed after the Second World War (Cassar, 2009). …”

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The 1928 eruption of Mount Etna (Italy): Reconstructing lava flow evolution and the destruction and recovery of the town of Mascali

Branca

Beni

Chester

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Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

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Mount Etna in Sicily (Italy) shows more than 2,500 years of interactions between volcanic eruptions and human activity, and these are well documented in historical sources. During the last 400 years, flank eruptions have had major impacts on the urban fabric of the Etna region, especially in 1651-54, 1669, 1923 and 1928, and it is the last of these which is the focus of this paper. In this paper a detailed field and historical reconstruction of the 1928 eruption is presented which allows three ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Mussolini and the fascist party. The State response both, during and in the immediate aftermath of the eruption and in the years that followed during which Mascali was reconstructed, was impressive. This masked a less benign legacy, however, that can be traced for several subsequent decades of using responses to natural catastrophes to manufacture State prestige by reacting to, rather than planning for, disasters. A C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T

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Tourism development in Sicily during the fascist period (1922–1943)

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Towards Tourism Sustainability: General Aspects and Empirical Evidence of the Italian Experience at Decentralized Level, with Specific Reference to Sicily

Towards Tourism Sustainability: General Aspects and Empirical Evidence of the Italian Experience at Decentralized Level, with Specific Reference to Sicily

Creation of mass sun-and-beach tourism in Spain: the definition of the tourist product through architecture

The 1928 eruption of Mount Etna (Italy): Reconstructing lava flow evolution and the destruction and recovery of the town of Mascali

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