Giovanni Ruggieri

University of Palermo | UNIPA · Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche (SEAS)

Tourism seasonality as a tourist demand concentration in specific seasons is still challenging for Mediterranean islands' tourism policies. Overtourism occurs during high tourist seasons, and undertourism occurs during low tourist seasons, creating undesirable economic, social, and environmental effects on sustainability. However, the imbalance of...

Nomination Dossier for Inscription as World Heritage List for the Serial Property The term “Arab-norman” has been used by historians and critics to refer to the Islamic cultural component present in Sicily during the Norman period. Analyzed semantically, the term “Arab” has an ethnic and above all a linguistic significance, referring to the populat...

Understanding the interactions of tourist companies in different tourism sub-sectors could be relevant for advancing the destination's organisation and management. The present article employs a network analysis to examine inter-organisational interactions and the various roles that some companies assume in tourism destinations. The results reveal t...

The article investigates the different growth patterns of islands and mainland regions by looking at their tourism and territorial characteristics differences. We considered per capita income and employment growth patterns in a panel data model focused on 74 regions in seven European countries from 2008 to 2019. The results show how the importance...

Islands are frequently characterised by an economic structure centred on tourism and the service sector. This specialisation has taken different forms and characterisations concerning the chosen or spontaneously developed model. To understand the development choices and patterns, this article analyses sixteen islands and archipelagos in the Europea...

Volcanic sites can be considered strategic areas for conservation and protection policies, but such policies may involve considerable costs However, not only are volcanic sites often integral to the tourism industry and, hence, of potential significant benefit to local economies in general; entrance fee income from tourists can also contribute to m...

Climate change is a critical sustainability challenge for islands and their main economic sectors. Rising sea levels, extreme temperatures, and drier conditions are the impacts with the most significant potential to amplify the economic damage on islands. However, their isolation and natural conditions bring about some leeway to respond to climate...

Air transport is an essential component of the tourism industry, and the number, frequency, and capacity of flight connections may influence the level of tourism demand, especially for island destinations. This paper evaluates the influence of air transport on tourism arrivals to selected islands in seven southern European Union countries to determ...

Tourism may not sustainably support territories with limited natural resource stock such as islands. The volume of visitor arrivals and the industry investments can increase the pressure even beyond sustainable levels. There is an evident and unresolved tension between these two great polarities, sustainability and economic growth driven by tourism...

Better and greater coordination and integration between companies are essential for tourist destination development processes improving competitiveness. Moreover, it is difficult to imagine that all companies can cooperate. In this way, we can imagine finding a group of companies that, for several reasons, decide to cooperate, creating some cluster...

Tourism may not sustainably support territories with limited natural resource stock as islands. The volume in visitor arrivals and the industry investments can increase the pressure even beyond sustainable levels. There is an evident and unresolved tension between these two great polarities, sustainability and economic growth driven by tourism. The...

Tourism represents a relevant source of income and employment, especially for islands and coastal areas. At the same time, it can have unexpected detrimental impacts on environments and local communities. This discussion has been widely argued in the international literature. The attention should now focus on tourism effects, as it can bring develo...

Local development is becoming increasingly dependent on the tourism industry, especially in fragile contexts such as islands, where tourism makes it possible to overcome, at least in part, the obstacles linked to geomorphological characteristics. The relevance of the sector for the economy is documented by the international literature and underscor...

Il contributo illustra le difformità di crescita esistenti tra le economie insulari e le altre economie regionali appartenenti agli stessi paesi, prestando particolare attenzione alla resilienza al periodo di crisi. I risultati dell’analisi confermano l’ipotesi di fondo che vi sia una maggiore rilevanza per le variabili legate alla domanda e all’of...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to verifying the economic resilience of islands and, in particular, the role of the tourism sector in the reaction to the most recent economic crisis. The analysis concerns insular contexts, such as the greater island regions in the Mediterranean basin. Design/methodology/approach Static and dynamic panel data...

New technologies can represent, for some aspects, both a problem and a precious resource. As we concerns, in tourism sector, ICT can help in managing and promoting destinations in a better way than in the past, especially in those cases where problems linked with the management of tourist flows and the need to manage a sustainable development exist...

Local development often depends on tourism, especially in fragile contexts like islands which represent a special cluster and are the best cases to be analyzed in order to highlight positive and negative aspects of economic development driven by tourism. A sustainable development approach should be taken in account and the UNESCO brand plays a fund...

This paper aims to analyse the different roles that enterprises have within a tourist destination by identifying the presence and possible role of leaders within the system. The Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a tool that offers a greater degree of understanding of the operation of the destination. The map of commercial relations between the leadi...

Tourism Development: concept and Issues Francisco J. Calderon Vazquez, Universidad de Malaga Giovanni Ruggieri, Palermo University https://doi.org/10.1080/21568316.2015.1106776 ABSTRACT The huge growth seen in the international tourism sector during the past three decades and the existence of successful empirical evidence in terms of contribu...

The islands of the European Union, generally associated with the sun and sea, attract the great majority of tourist flows in the summer months. This characteristic is shared by all the islands, be they in the Mediterranean or in the Baltic. However, through detailed analysis and the use of specific indicators, it was demonstrated that some islands...

This book exemplifies the ecological, social and economic perspectives of sustainable island tourism development. The book consists of 15 chapters presented in three parts. Cases in this book include cold water islands in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans, as well as islands in the more popular warmer climes of the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and the...

Resulta esencial una proximacion conceptual y teorica al Turismo Relacional para dotar de mayor contenido y profundidad a sus propuestas en materia cientifica, en los siguientes parrafos trataremos de perfilar la identidad del turismo relacional a partir de sus rasgos más esenciales, de cara a una mejor definición conceptual del mismo.