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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.
Dario Bertocchi; Nicola Camatti; Jan Van Der Borg. Tourism observatories for monitoring MED destinations performance. Tourism 2020, 68, 466 -481.
AMA StyleDario Bertocchi, Nicola Camatti, Jan Van Der Borg. Tourism observatories for monitoring MED destinations performance. Tourism. 2020; 68 (4):466-481.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDario Bertocchi; Nicola Camatti; Jan Van Der Borg. 2020. "Tourism observatories for monitoring MED destinations performance." Tourism 68, no. 4: 466-481.
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.
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.
AMA StyleNicola 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.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicola 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.
This paper addresses the role of public discourse in processes of category formation. Tracing the emergence and diffusion of a category on the media, and exploring the discourses generated on the media within and around the emerging category, the paper reflects on how these discourses concur in performing the very category they portray. The focus is set on the Historical Shops category, as part of broader processes of urban categorisations for local development and regeneration. By means of a Topic Modelling of a corpus of 3262 press articles collected from Italian news sources between 2009 and 2019, the paper finds that public discourse plays three main roles: echoing category creation processes by policymakers, grounding the rising category in wider discourses of retail crisis, urban degradation, regeneration and overtourism, and narrating it by explaining what Historical Shops are, where they are located, which issues they face and which responses they receive at different institutional levels. Overall, in this paper, the semi-automated techniques afforded by Topic Modelling offer a way to enter the meaning construction processes and elicit the agential role of public discourse in the formation of a category.
Camilla Ferri; Maria Lusiani; Dario Bertocchi. Public Discourse and Category Formation: A Topic Modelling Exploration of ‘Historical Shops’ on Italian Media. puntOorg International Journal 2020, 5, 99 -134.
AMA StyleCamilla Ferri, Maria Lusiani, Dario Bertocchi. Public Discourse and Category Formation: A Topic Modelling Exploration of ‘Historical Shops’ on Italian Media. puntOorg International Journal. 2020; 5 (2):99-134.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCamilla Ferri; Maria Lusiani; Dario Bertocchi. 2020. "Public Discourse and Category Formation: A Topic Modelling Exploration of ‘Historical Shops’ on Italian Media." puntOorg International Journal 5, no. 2: 99-134.
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
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 .
AMA StyleDario 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.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDario 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.
Venice is one of the most famous iconic destinations and one of the most emblematic cases of overtourism affecting a historic city. Here, social movements against tourism have emerged as a reaction to vastly unsustainable tourist flows that have had dramatic and transformational impacts on Venetians’ lives. The aim of this paper is to investigate how tourism transforms the social, cultural, and everyday geographies of the city. The effects of tourism on the historic city are conceived as a process of continuous transformation and repositioning. Taking into consideration the most tangible daily practices of tourists (eating, sleeping, and buying) and the finer dynamics of Venice’s tourism problem, we translate data on these practices into a temporal and spatial analysis to better understand how dynamic the texture of the city is in relation to the tourism subsystem. A comparison between 2008 and 2019 is conducted to evaluate the impact of tourism on residential uses of the city and measure the sustainability of growth of the tourism facilities. The investigation highlighted an impressive accommodation’s growth, from 8.249 in 2008 to 49.260 in 2019 of bed places (497% growth) in the entire historical city, a similar expansion is also evident in the total number of restaurants that has increased by 160% in all districts and a variations of 4% in shops instead of a population decline of −13% in the same period. In addition, a residents’ survey in spring 2019 was conducted to better understand the intensity of these impacts and the motives for depopulation and the anti-tourism movements. We focus on how tourism, if not managed and planned, radically changes the social and urban structures of the city and the lives of local residents. We conclude by presenting some local theoretical and practical insights into the touristic pressure, provided by citizens’ associations on one side and policymakers on the other.
Dario Bertocchi; Francesco Visentin. “The Overwhelmed City”: Physical and Social Over-Capacities of Global Tourism in Venice. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6937 .
AMA StyleDario Bertocchi, Francesco Visentin. “The Overwhelmed City”: Physical and Social Over-Capacities of Global Tourism in Venice. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (24):6937.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDario Bertocchi; Francesco Visentin. 2019. "“The Overwhelmed City”: Physical and Social Over-Capacities of Global Tourism in Venice." Sustainability 11, no. 24: 6937.
Developments in ICT and the massive growth in social media usage have increased the availability of data on travel behaviour. This brings an array of new possibilities to improve destination management through Data-driven decisions. This data, however, needs to be analysed and interpreted in order to be beneficial for destination management. Different kinds of methodologies and data have already been applied to analyse spatial behaviour of tourists between and within destinations. The novelty of our paper in this sense that we apply a relational approach by conducting a network analysis methodology on a readily available big data source: user generated content (UGC) from TripAdvisor. The collected data from the city of Antwerp, Belgium shows how locals, Belgians, Europeans and non-Europeans have distinct review patterns, but also shows recurring behavioural patterns. By comparing the relational constellation of the review network to the spatial distribution of central and peripheral attractions, hotels and restaurants, we discuss the added value of social network analysis on UGC for translating (big) data into applicable information and knowledge. The results show a dominant position of a limited number of clustered attractions in the historic city centre, and shows how geographical proximity and relational proximity are interrelated for international reviewers but less for domestic reviewers. This finding is translated into a set of recommendations for policy makers and destination managers trying to accomplish a better distribution of tourists over the entire destination.
Egbert Van Der Zee; Dario Bertocchi. Finding patterns in urban tourist behaviour: a social network analysis approach based on TripAdvisor reviews. Information Technology & Tourism 2018, 20, 153 -180.
AMA StyleEgbert Van Der Zee, Dario Bertocchi. Finding patterns in urban tourist behaviour: a social network analysis approach based on TripAdvisor reviews. Information Technology & Tourism. 2018; 20 (1-4):153-180.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEgbert Van Der Zee; Dario Bertocchi. 2018. "Finding patterns in urban tourist behaviour: a social network analysis approach based on TripAdvisor reviews." Information Technology & Tourism 20, no. 1-4: 153-180.
Egbert Van Der Zee; Dario Bertocchi; Dominique Vanneste. Distribution of tourists within urban heritage destinations: a hot spot/cold spot analysis of TripAdvisor data as support for destination management. Current Issues in Tourism 2018, 23, 175 -196.
AMA StyleEgbert Van Der Zee, Dario Bertocchi, Dominique Vanneste. Distribution of tourists within urban heritage destinations: a hot spot/cold spot analysis of TripAdvisor data as support for destination management. Current Issues in Tourism. 2018; 23 (2):175-196.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEgbert Van Der Zee; Dario Bertocchi; Dominique Vanneste. 2018. "Distribution of tourists within urban heritage destinations: a hot spot/cold spot analysis of TripAdvisor data as support for destination management." Current Issues in Tourism 23, no. 2: 175-196.
Egbert Van Der Zee; Dario Bertocchi; Katarzyna Janusz. Een ruimtelijke kijk op stedelijk toerisme. AGORA Magazine 2016, 32, 34 .
AMA StyleEgbert Van Der Zee, Dario Bertocchi, Katarzyna Janusz. Een ruimtelijke kijk op stedelijk toerisme. AGORA Magazine. 2016; 32 (3):34.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEgbert Van Der Zee; Dario Bertocchi; Katarzyna Janusz. 2016. "Een ruimtelijke kijk op stedelijk toerisme." AGORA Magazine 32, no. 3: 34.
The population structure of the grape powdery mildew fungus, Erysiphe necator (formerly Uncinula necator), has been hypothesized to vary from being clonal to highly diverse and recombining. We report here on the structure of an E. necator population sampled during a 4-year period from an isolated vineyard in northern Italy (Voghera, Pavia Province). We obtained 54 isolates of E. necator that overwintered asexually as mycelium in grapevine buds and caused severe symptoms on the emerging shoots, known as flag shoots. All isolates were genotyped for mating type, four multilocus polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based markers (a total of 64 loci were scored), and two single-copy loci designed to identify genetic subgroups in E. necator. All isolates had the same mating type and single-locus alleles that correlate to isolates from flag shoots in other areas. Only 2 of the 64 loci scored from multilocus markers were polymorphic; 46 of the 54 isolates had the same multilocus haplotype. Seven isolates had a second haplotype that was recovered over 3 years, and only a single isolate was found with a third haplotype. Both variant haplotypes differed from the main clonal haplotype by single loci. Spatial autocorrelation analyses showed that vines with flag shoots were not aggregated within years, but they were aggregated between consecutive years. These results demonstrate that this subpopulation of E. necator on flag shoots is composed of a single clonal lineage that has persisted for at least 4 years. We speculate that the lack of diversity in the flag shoot subpopulation in this vineyard is the result of restricted immigration from surrounding areas and genetic drift operating through founder effects and periodic bottlenecks. We propose a model that integrates epidemiology and population genetics to explain the variation observed in genetic structure of E. necator flag shoot subpopulations from different vineyards or viticultural regions.
P. Cortesi; C. Pizzatti; Dario Bertocchi; M. G. Milgroom. Persistence and Spatial Autocorrelation of Clones of Erysiphe necator Overwintering as Mycelium in Dormant Buds in an Isolated Vineyard in Northern Italy. Phytopathology® 2008, 98, 148 -152.
AMA StyleP. Cortesi, C. Pizzatti, Dario Bertocchi, M. G. Milgroom. Persistence and Spatial Autocorrelation of Clones of Erysiphe necator Overwintering as Mycelium in Dormant Buds in an Isolated Vineyard in Northern Italy. Phytopathology®. 2008; 98 (2):148-152.
Chicago/Turabian StyleP. Cortesi; C. Pizzatti; Dario Bertocchi; M. G. Milgroom. 2008. "Persistence and Spatial Autocorrelation of Clones of Erysiphe necator Overwintering as Mycelium in Dormant Buds in an Isolated Vineyard in Northern Italy." Phytopathology® 98, no. 2: 148-152.