TITOLO:
"Analysing Local Tourism". A Statistical Perspective
AUTORI: Antonino
Oliveri, Stefano
De Cantis
(Università degli Studi di Palermo)
Price: £ 33.99
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Book details
Editore: McGraw-Hill, UK 2013 (Prof. Vaccina)
Editore: McGraw-Hill, UK 2013 (Prof. Vaccina)
ISBN: 9780077161002
Division: Higher Education
Pub Date: SEP-13
Pages:
350
Edition:
01
Format:
Paperback
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Dipartimento disponibili n. 3 copie
About the book
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This book presents the results of research carried out in Sicily over the
last ten years by a group of scholars belonging to different Italian
Universities. Funded by the Italian Ministry of Research, this research aimed
to answer seemingly simple questions: how many tourists are at a destination
in a specified time interval? How do they move within the destination? The
first question addresses the quantification of tourist flows at the local
scale, which is not reliably provided by official statistics. Official supply
statistics account for the customers of accommodation facilities rather than
for tourists, and suffer from errors due to missing information on underground
non-observed tourism and on arrival replications generated by tourists who
spend nights at more than one accommodation facility. Official demand
statistics are produced through sample research including very few units per
town. Thus, their output cannot be referred to the local scale territorial
units (provinces or towns) without incurring excessive sampling error. The
most relevant effects of tourism are commonly observed at the local scale.
Tour-ist services and policies are currently provided at the local scale;
however they are not supported by adequate information on tourism supply and
demand, due to the limitations of official statistics and the lack of
purpose-tailored research. Ad hoc research is then required so as to get
adequate information on tourism at the local scale and this is what has been
done in Sicily starting from 2004. The Aeolian Islands archipelago, the
seaside resort town of Cefalù, Sicilian exit slots (ports, air-ports, the
Strait of Messina) are the locations where the research team gathered data
from administrative sources, purpose-tailored sample surveys and censuses.
The output of this research shed light on real tourism supply and demand at
the sub-regional (i.e. local) scale within the Sicilian tourist market, which
features strong un-derground unobserved tourism and anthropic charge on a lot
of tourist destinations. This is not a comprehensive textbook nor a treatise
on local tourism. It is rather a case-studies contributed book in nature,
which highlights the relevance of local scale tourism analysis. This book
represents also an example of a course suggesting research methods and
techniques which researchers can refer to when studying local tourism.
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