Basic aspects of territorial identity (terraphilia) towards proportional tourism development

Cultural Heritage and Identity in the Contemporary Tourism Development

Culture and heritage have been increasingly recognised as means of sustainable social and economic development and an important element of tourist motivation. However, the recent development of cultural tourism indicates the problem of massification, offering conventional products based on serial reproductions of culture. Due to factors such as globalisation and the importance of cultural diver...

Crowd-Cloud Tourism, New Approaches to Territorial Marketing

Despite great efforts in adopting technologies for tourism development, few results have been achieved. A lot of experiences are mostly based on pilot projects or on never completed prototypes. Nations with a large tourism vocation lack of a serious national tourism portal. A different approach has been adopted in Matera (southern Italy), where a volunteered way has been adopted in mapping all ...

Genetic Aspects of Gender Identity Development and Gender Dysphoria

B.P.C. Kreukels et al. (eds.), Gender Dysphoria and Disorders of Sex Development: Progress in Care and Knowledge, Focus on Sexuality Research, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-7441-8_2, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract The development of gender identity, its variance, and gender dysphoria is thought to be a complex process involving biological and psychosocial factors. Heritabilit...

Towards new tourism development strategies in Cook Islands

Tourism has grown considerably in Cook Islands over the last 25 years, and is now the dominant sector in the economy. Visitor numbers have risen from less than 10,000 in 1976 to nearly 73,000 in 2002. While tourism is crucial to leading the future economic growth of Cook Islands, it is a complicated industry that indirectly affects many other sectors of the economy. It is important that clear s...

Industrial tourism development in Cities: towards a Framework