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Gay-friendly Cities? Much More Can Be Done
Thanks to the conquest of civil rights based on the construction and recognition of a specific cultural, social and political identity, LGBT+ people have also become a segment of the tourism market that produces considerable sales at the global level.#LGBT+ tourism regards not only the many thematic events organized around the world, but boasts the presence of ad hoc organizations such as the International ...
Tourism Becomes Ever More Rainbow
Today, the LGBTQ segment embraces 3 percent of more than a billion international travelers, and travel spending generated by LGBTQ travelers coming from the main markets is around 219 billion dollars per year.#Travelers in this segment are traditionally oriented towards LGBTQ friendly destinations, such as large American and European cities. However, in mature outbound markets, we are seeing an increase ...
Capitals of Culture: Experimenting with the Future
Each year, the list of candidate cities to be the Italian Capital of Culture counts approximately thirty proposals. The attention to this opportunity is growing, as is the quality of the proposals. This demonstrates that the competition has broken away from the perspective of rewarding projects that attract tourists, to open up to experiences able to design and implement processes of culture-based ...
Business Leadership and the Rise in Levels of Conflict
Even before the outbreak of the pandemic, a need was evident in organizations to structure the relations between management and their collaborators differently, abandoning the old top-down, control-centered management of relationships. To manage the rise of internal conflict and improve organizational and productive processes, businesses are increasingly turning to alternative dispute resolution mechanisms ...
Technology and Sustainability Take a Cruise
The world of cruise tourism is facing extremely complex challenges. The latest reports on the state of the industry highlight the progress made and underscore the persistent efforts to innovate and promote more responsible tourism. The case of MSC Crociere demonstrates that the future of the sector is linked to technological innovation, environmental sustainability, and the reconsideration of traditional ...
Mountain Tourism in Transition
Various studies conducted in 2020 and 2021 have shown an increase in the attention of travellers for sustainability, starting with environmental sustainability. A study conducted by Booking.com on its users, for example, indicated that 82 percent of travellers think that travelling sustainably is important. For this reason, mountain tourism is evolving towards zero-impact solutions able to integrate ...
The Great Challenge of Milan-Cortina
The production of a large event, starting from the candidacy phase, implies a mix of investments, adequate marketing actions, and the involvement of many actors. The economic and social legacy thus embraces important temporal and territorial dimensions. The case of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics demonstrates that the importance of large events, in addition to the sense of belonging and national ...
New Trends in Beach Tourism
Beach tourism has always represented an important segment for Italy, and during the pandemic the seaside confirmed its position as the preferred tourist product for summer vacation. However, the changed socio-economic context has introduced some alterations in consumer behavior, such as attention to environmental sustainability and a broader sociality. These are changes that demand a rethinking of ...
The City Needs the Mountains
The idea of mountains seen as an impervious territory, far from services and economic-cultural flows, is by now obsolete. To the contrary, the forms of flexible, light, agile, alternative, and temporary organization developed in the mountains in terms of adaptability and habitability can represent answers for urban territories. The mountains are a source of resources, biodiversity, and energy, and ...
New Inhabitants in Mountain Territories
The question of the repopulation of mountain areas must be addressed in a broader view of local development. There are four priority axes with respect to the construction of policies of attraction and welcoming new inhabitants: the upgrading of territorial services; economic diversification; territorial marketing; and education and training. That approach allows for activating innovative systems for ...