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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 319 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Sustainability |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 319 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 26 Feb 2018 |
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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Keywords
- tourism diversification
- Smart Specialisation
- Tourism innovation
- related variety
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Tourism Diversification and Its Implications for Smart Specialisation. / Weidenfeld, Adi.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Tourism Diversification and Its Implications for Smart Specialisation
AU - Weidenfeld, Adi
N1 - This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
PY - 2018/2/26
Y1 - 2018/2/26
N2 - The complex nature of tourism, its strong inter-sectoral relationships and regional dimension challenge innovation. The advent of smart specialisation, which focuses on regional diversification across sectors, offers considerable and hitherto largely unrealized potential for developing innovative tourism policies within this new agenda. This paper addresses the understudied concept of tourism diversification and its unrealized relevance to smart specialisation, which has emerged as a mainstream logic underpinning EU Cohesion Policy reforms and has diffused into other OECD countries. It provides a theoretical framework for studying product, market, sectoral and regional diversification as well as related variety in tourism. Some policy implications for realizing tourism diversification and for the potential role of tourism in smart specialisation strategies in particular are suggested.
AB - The complex nature of tourism, its strong inter-sectoral relationships and regional dimension challenge innovation. The advent of smart specialisation, which focuses on regional diversification across sectors, offers considerable and hitherto largely unrealized potential for developing innovative tourism policies within this new agenda. This paper addresses the understudied concept of tourism diversification and its unrealized relevance to smart specialisation, which has emerged as a mainstream logic underpinning EU Cohesion Policy reforms and has diffused into other OECD countries. It provides a theoretical framework for studying product, market, sectoral and regional diversification as well as related variety in tourism. Some policy implications for realizing tourism diversification and for the potential role of tourism in smart specialisation strategies in particular are suggested.
KW - tourism diversification
KW - Smart Specialisation
KW - Tourism innovation
KW - related variety
U2 - 10.3390/su10020319
DO - 10.3390/su10020319
M3 - Article
VL - 10
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
SN - 2071-1050
IS - 319
M1 - 319
ER -