Between Change and Stability: Local Development, Tourist Offer and Local Values in Monferrato, Italy

Between Change and Stability: Local Development, Tourist Offer and Local Values in Monferrato, Italy

This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the perception of tourism in small, rural municipalities in Italian internal areas, by focusing on the UNESCO territory of Monferrato, in North-Western Italy. The paper looks at how communities consider tourism in relationship with the specificities...

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Autor principal: Michele F. Fontefrancesco
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Publicado: University of Belgrade 2020
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tourism
marginalization
local development
Italy
UNESCO
ethnography
Anthropology
GN1-890
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:8172f4a9bb454ae391556b12a70ed2632021-12-02T04:36:25ZBetween Change and Stability: Local Development, Tourist Offer and Local Values in Monferrato, Italy10.21301/eap.v14i4.40353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/8172f4a9bb454ae391556b12a70ed2632020-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/1013https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801 This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the perception of tourism in small, rural municipalities in Italian internal areas, by focusing on the UNESCO territory of Monferrato, in North-Western Italy. The paper looks at how communities consider tourism in relationship with the specificities of their land and the need of transforming it in order to create a functional tourist destination. In so doing, the paper answers to key questions concerning touristic development by pointing the relevance of the hierarchy of values of the communities in shaping the actual offer in services and goods, highlighting the conflicting expectations concerning developing a new, thriving economic and maintaining the local social stability. Michele F. FontefrancescoUniversity of Belgradearticletourismmarginalizationlocal developmentItalyUNESCOethnographyAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 14, Iss 4 (2020)
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language EN
FR
SR
topic tourism
marginalization
local development
Italy
UNESCO
ethnography
Anthropology
GN1-890
spellingShingle tourism
marginalization
local development
Italy
UNESCO
ethnography
Anthropology
GN1-890
Michele F. Fontefrancesco
Between Change and Stability: Local Development, Tourist Offer and Local Values in Monferrato, Italy
description This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the perception of tourism in small, rural municipalities in Italian internal areas, by focusing on the UNESCO territory of Monferrato, in North-Western Italy. The paper looks at how communities consider tourism in relationship with the specificities of their land and the need of transforming it in order to create a functional tourist destination. In so doing, the paper answers to key questions concerning touristic development by pointing the relevance of the hierarchy of values of the communities in shaping the actual offer in services and goods, highlighting the conflicting expectations concerning developing a new, thriving economic and maintaining the local social stability.
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author Michele F. Fontefrancesco
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title Between Change and Stability: Local Development, Tourist Offer and Local Values in Monferrato, Italy
title_short Between Change and Stability: Local Development, Tourist Offer and Local Values in Monferrato, Italy
title_full Between Change and Stability: Local Development, Tourist Offer and Local Values in Monferrato, Italy
title_fullStr Between Change and Stability: Local Development, Tourist Offer and Local Values in Monferrato, Italy
title_full_unstemmed Between Change and Stability: Local Development, Tourist Offer and Local Values in Monferrato, Italy
title_sort between change and stability: local development, tourist offer and local values in monferrato, italy
publisher University of Belgrade
publishDate 2020
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