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Nicola Camatti
University Ca’ Foscari of Venice

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Published: 20 April 2021 in Mediterranean Protected Areas in the Era of Overtourism
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Many tourism destinations have long pursued the goal of growth ‘at all costs’; the result in many instances has been environmental, socio-cultural and ecological degradation. Amidst mounting evidence of the unsustainability of this approach, we are now witnessing a series of healthy, albeit still timid, attempts to move towards more sustainable tourism development models. Such initiatives experiment with alternative goals and development paths which emphasise the quality rather than the quantity of tourism, alongside the pursuit of wider social and environmental objectives. Yet, despite these positive case studies, change remains slow, and many destinations continue to manage tourism via top-down governance tools—an approach which limits their capacity for sustainable development. Even the most rigid sustainability criteria and the adoption of new governance models have been shown to be insufficient in the absence of a radical change of mindset of tourism stakeholders. A more holistic system is needed, which not only considers but actively engages tourism’s wide range of stakeholders to effectively navigate sustainable tourism development.

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Nicola Camatti; Carolyn Smith; Jan van der Borg. Changing the Growth-Focused Mindset: A Pathway Towards Sustainable Tourism Development. Mediterranean Protected Areas in the Era of Overtourism 2021, 311 -335.

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Nicola Camatti, Carolyn Smith, Jan van der Borg. Changing the Growth-Focused Mindset: A Pathway Towards Sustainable Tourism Development. Mediterranean Protected Areas in the Era of Overtourism. 2021; ():311-335.

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Nicola Camatti; Carolyn Smith; Jan van der Borg. 2021. "Changing the Growth-Focused Mindset: A Pathway Towards Sustainable Tourism Development." Mediterranean Protected Areas in the Era of Overtourism , no. : 311-335.

Journal article
Published: 14 January 2021 in Sustainability
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This paper addresses the fundamental role that cultural heritage can play in local development processes to guarantee community wellbeing, quality of life, and quality of society. The enhancement of cultural heritage’s tangible and intangible values may result in sustainable and resilient territory, but a number of issues emerge when dealing with the reuse of specific inherited assets, such as former military barracks. This paper conducts an in-depth analysis of these assets, especially those released from the military after the end of the Cold War. We thus explore the Italian case through the comparison of before-1900 and 1900-to-1950 former military barracks. The objectives are the following. First, to discover how these two types of military sites are approached (or no) as proper heritage. Second, to understand how the reuse management is carrying out and how it deals with conservative and profit-driven approaches towards the achievement of cultural, economic, environmental, and social sustainability. Third, to compare the Italian case with similar international good practices to discover common/different trends and innovative solutions to be applied in Italy.

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Federico Camerin; Nicola Camatti; Francesco Gastaldi. Military Barracks as Cultural Heritage in Italy: A Comparison Between Before-1900- and 1900-to-1950-Built Barracks. Sustainability 2021, 13, 782 .

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Federico Camerin, Nicola Camatti, Francesco Gastaldi. Military Barracks as Cultural Heritage in Italy: A Comparison Between Before-1900- and 1900-to-1950-Built Barracks. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):782.

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Federico Camerin; Nicola Camatti; Francesco Gastaldi. 2021. "Military Barracks as Cultural Heritage in Italy: A Comparison Between Before-1900- and 1900-to-1950-Built Barracks." Sustainability 13, no. 2: 782.

Journal article
Published: 29 December 2020 in Tourism
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Following the precedent set by the Tourism Observatory (TO) run by the European Commission-DG GROW a few years ago, several initiatives have taken place to design and manage tourism observatories at both the transnational and local level. However, these initiatives do not yet seem able to provide adequate operational responses to the challenges that the Commission launched with the original TO. While the opportunities offered by the Web 2.0 still do not seem to have been sufficiently taken advantage of, such initiatives also have not yet developed suitable methodologies to operationally include the tourism industry in the studies and monitoring performed by the TOs. This work presents the lesion learnt from the ShapeTourism prototype including two different tools: an observatory with official and unofficial indicators, and a simulation tool to predict different scenarios and different sustainability levels, designed specifically to overcome the aforementioned limits. The prototype was tested in 2017 on the entire eligible area of ​​the 2014-2020 MED Programme covering 52 regions. The potentialities of this tool are shown through the creation on indicators, benchmarking and applications.

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Dario Bertocchi; Nicola Camatti; Jan Van Der Borg. Tourism observatories for monitoring MED destinations performance. Tourism 2020, 68, 466 -481.

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Dario Bertocchi, Nicola Camatti, Jan Van Der Borg. Tourism observatories for monitoring MED destinations performance. Tourism. 2020; 68 (4):466-481.

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Dario Bertocchi; Nicola Camatti; Jan Van Der Borg. 2020. "Tourism observatories for monitoring MED destinations performance." Tourism 68, no. 4: 466-481.

Research article
Published: 10 November 2020 in Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing
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In order to design effective responses to the complex phenomenon of overtourism, the tourism carrying capacity (TCC) of a destination is an essential reference point. This paper provides in-depth analysis of this correlation through the case study of Dubrovnik. The study applies a TCC calculation model that is able to quantitatively include the main effects of overtourism. The paper illustrates how these results can be used to automate specific decongestion policies by conceptualising a digital response system for real-time intervention to mitigate the undesirable effects of overtourism.

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Nicola Camatti; Dario Bertocchi; Hrvoje Carić; Jan van der Borg. A digital response system to mitigate overtourism. The case of Dubrovnik. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing 2020, 37, 887 -901.

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Nicola Camatti, Dario Bertocchi, Hrvoje Carić, Jan van der Borg. A digital response system to mitigate overtourism. The case of Dubrovnik. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing. 2020; 37 (8-9):887-901.

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Nicola Camatti; Dario Bertocchi; Hrvoje Carić; Jan van der Borg. 2020. "A digital response system to mitigate overtourism. The case of Dubrovnik." Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing 37, no. 8-9: 887-901.

Journal article
Published: 09 January 2020 in Sustainability
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Overtourism problems, anti-tourist movements and negative externalities of tourism are popular research approaches and are key concepts to better understand the sustainable development of tourism destinations. In many of the overtourism narratives, Venice is considered to be one of the most relevant cases of overtourism and therefore has become a laboratory for studying the different conflicts that emerge when tourism numbers continue to grow and the quality of the tourism flow continues to decline. This article is therefore focusing on Venice and on one of the possible solutions to mitigate the negative impacts of tourism represented by the concept of a tourist carrying capacity (TCC) in an urban destination. The aim of this paper is to discuss alternative methodologies regarding the calculation of the TCC, and to apply a fuzzy instead of a ‘crisp’ linear programming model to determine the scenarios of a sustainable number of tourists in the cultural destination of Venice, looking for the optimal compromise between, on the one hand, the wish of maximizing the monetary gain by the local tourism sectors and, on the other, the desire to control the undesirable effects that tourism exerts on a destination by the local population. To solve the problems related to tourism statistics and data availability, some uncertainty in the parameters has been included using fuzzy numbers. The fuzziness in the model was introduced on the basis of questionnaires distributed among both tourists and residents. By applying the fuzzy linear programming model to the emblematic case of Venice, it was shown that this approach can indeed help destinations to understand the challenges of sustainable tourism development better, to evaluate the impact of alternative policies of overtourism on the sustainability of tourism, and hence, to help design a strategy to manage tourist flows more adequately

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Dario Bertocchi; Nicola Camatti; Silvio Giove; Jan Van Der Borg. Venice and Overtourism: Simulating Sustainable Development Scenarios through a Tourism Carrying Capacity Model. Sustainability 2020, 12, 512 .

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Dario Bertocchi, Nicola Camatti, Silvio Giove, Jan Van Der Borg. Venice and Overtourism: Simulating Sustainable Development Scenarios through a Tourism Carrying Capacity Model. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (2):512.

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Dario Bertocchi; Nicola Camatti; Silvio Giove; Jan Van Der Borg. 2020. "Venice and Overtourism: Simulating Sustainable Development Scenarios through a Tourism Carrying Capacity Model." Sustainability 12, no. 2: 512.