Tourism Observatories 3.0: A Transnational Experiment in the MED

Luis Nobre Pereira (), Margarida Santos (), Dario Bertocchi (), Nicola Camatti and Jan Van der Borg ()
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Luis Nobre Pereira: Department of Economics, University of Algarve, Portugal
Margarida Santos: Department of Economics, University of Algarve, Portugal
Dario Bertocchi: Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Jan Van der Borg: Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

No 2018:21, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari"

Abstract: Following the precedent set by the Virtual Tourism Observatory 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 VTO. While the opportunities offered by the Web 3.0 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 OTs. This work presents an OT prototype including a participatory DSS (PDSS) 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 PDSS are shown through two case studies, one Italian and the other Portuguese.

Keywords: Tourism Observatory; Destination Management; Decision Support System; participatory processes; coastal and maritime destinations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 O18 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2018
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