Food museums as cultural institutions and tourist attractions: Evidence from Italy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Garibaldi ◽  
Andrea Pozzi
Keyword(s):  
Private Companies ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Cooking Shows ◽  
International Audience ◽  
External Relationships ◽  
Museum Experience ◽  
Public Museums ◽  
Modes Of Engagement ◽  
Heritage Interpretation

In recent years, food museums have turned into popular attractions for tourists. Scholars and practitioners have emphasized their role as agents of preservation, education and cultural heritage interpretation, but devoted little attention to tourism related issues. To fill the gap, this paper investigates Italian food museums in order to assess their characteristics, tasks, audience and modes of engagement. Findings suggest that community engagement is an important task along with safeguarding and promoting food heritage. Creating or improving external relationships is crucial for public museums to get recognized for their role and value. For museums operated by private companies, engaging with local stakeholders and residents serves not just a branding purpose, but also in awakening their interest in past and present issues concerning the product (nutrition, safety, taste, cultural and social values). The majority of Italian food museums mainly appeal to domestic travelers, which indicates the potential to reach a larger, international audience. Visibility and language issues remain crucial to reach international tourists but reframing the museum experience is also essential to meet new visitors’ needs. Exploiting traditional exhibitions of food-related objects with multimedia technology and practical activities such as classes, workshops, cooking shows can help in engaging the audiences.

scholarly journals Perspectives and reviews in the use of narrative strategies for communicating fake news in the tourism industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 728-734
Author(s):  
Emanuela Anton ◽  
Cosmin Alexandru Teodorescu ◽  
Vanesa Madalina Vargas
Keyword(s):  
Data Dissemination ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Cruise Ships

AbstractIn this article we review research from the past decade that explores how elements of communication from social media and press articles influence the decision making for choosing a travel destination. ‘Fake news’ has the potential to impact opinions, expectations and behaviour of tourism consumers. Perceived as an important threat to modern democratic societies, the course of intentional false data dissemination is able to disrupt perception and throughout the normal functioning of state institutions and private companies. Hence, manipulation of information shapes differently the image of tourism destinations, accommodation units, cruise ships and even tourist attractions mostly in order to produce higher economic benefits. Unfortunately, sometimes ‘fake news’ spreading could be detrimental to tourist destinations and operators. In order to pursue, cope, absorb and adjust threats related to ‘fake news’, we will use and approach in a later work the aspects regarding a ‘societal resilience’

scholarly journals Do Tourists’ Preferences Match the Host Community’s Initiatives? A Study of Sustainable Tourism in One of Africa’s Oldest Conservation Areas

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4167
Author(s):  
Meron Tekalign ◽  
Nicole Groot Zevert ◽  
Amanuel Weldegebriel ◽  
Jean Poesen ◽  
Jan Nyssen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Mixed Logit ◽  
Latent Class Models ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Tourism Planning ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Local Stakeholders

Involvement of stakeholders in sustainable tourism, particularly in developing countries, is crucial for the success of tourism development. However, its implementation is often criticized for not considering stakeholders’ needs. This study explores tourists’ preferences for tourism activities, designed by local stakeholders, in one of the oldest conserved parks in East Africa—the Menagesha Suba Forest, in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia. The study area is endowed with natural, cultural and historical, yet undeveloped, tourist attractions. The host community benefits little from tourism and is in continual conflict with the park administration. This study aims to provide new insights on potential engagement of stakeholders in sustainable tourism planning. In particular, we explored tourists’ preferences for activities designed by local stakeholders, as well as their preferences concerning the improvement of the park infrastructure. The local community has been engaged in group discussions to design community involvement activities in tourism, while park guest books have been consulted to identify infrastructure improvements suggested by tourists. A survey that embedded a discrete choice experiment was conducted among tourists that visited the Menagesha Suba Forest. Data were analyzed with mixed logit and latent class models. We identified preferences for infrastructure improvement in the park. Tourists’ preferences are heterogeneous and vary with their profile as foreigners, foreign residents, and locals. Furthermore, the study indicates that there is a mismatch between tourists’ preferences and activities designed by the host community for their engagement in tourism. Tourists might be unaware of the importance of such activities for local communities. On the other hand, the findings also imply that increasing host residents’ awareness of tourism and tourists’ preferences is required, prior to tourism activities planning. Hence, sustainable tourism planning and development needs to understand perception gaps between host residents and tourists for its smooth implementation.

scholarly journals Mining Heritage and Mining Tourism

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Jelen
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Heritage Interpretation ◽  
Mining Heritage

Abstract The mining industry leaves behind a large number of tangible or intangible remains. A part of them can be used by different actors as a mining heritage. Specific cultural or social values and meanings, which remind of the importance of mining in the past and today, are represented through this mining heritage. To preserve them, the heritage must be passed to future generations. One of the ways is mining tourism. However, the relation between the mining heritage and tourism is not simple as the complex mining heritage has many specific features that differ from the traditional tourist attractions and conceal many pitfalls. The aspects of authenticity or approaches to heritage interpretation are also important.

scholarly journals Destination Strategies to Enhance Secondary and Niche Tourism Products: Literature Review and Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Marco Remondino
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Destination Branding ◽  
Strategic Cooperation ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Entrepreneurial Strategies

The topic of this article is enhancing destination competitiveness, with particular interest to entrepreneurial strategies able to valorise secondary and niche attractions. A literature review reveals that, by means of cooperation, local stakeholders could increase success of mass destinations, while promoting the discovery of niche attractions, with a positive impact on the whole territory. Also, the role of DMOs is important, facilitating cooperation among between private and public stakeholders and among private companies. Destination branding strategies could be set, to define the competitive advantages of a territory, leveraging on synergies among primary and secondary attractions. The specific case study of Liguria is proposed and analysed by means of a questionnaire, spread among potential tourists, so to investigate their perceptions about both the capacity of the territory to offer secondary tourism products and the existence and effectiveness of collaborative strategies among local stakeholders. This Italian region has a tourism concentrated during summertime (bathing season), but possesses other specific features, that could differentiate the offer and potentially attract tourists also in other periods. The questionnaire, in fact, reveals that many tourists also like to explore the inland, which should therefore be further promoted. It also emerges than about 9% of tourists didn’t take advantage of secondary tourism products, not being aware of them, while about 46% believe that secondary attractions could be interesting for tourism, but are not adequately exploited, due to the lack of both strategic cooperation among local businesses and direct promotion.

Industry of rural tourism in the Stavropol region

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Александр Трухачев ◽  
Aleksandr Trukhachev
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Stavropol Region ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Current Context ◽  
High Level

Rural tourism - one of the most famous and popular forms of recreation. Many experts note its ability to compete with the leaders of the global tourism - beach and cultural tourism. Stavropol region of the Russian Federation has a high level of agricultural development and rich touristic and recreational potential. The aspiration of small and large private companies to diversify their activities by expanding non-agricultural segment caused the formation and development of rural tourism. A variety of tourism resources and cultural heritage of the Stavropol region allowed entrepreneurs to create a variety of tourism products in the segment of rural recreation. In the current context the formation of rural tourism industry in the Stavropol region is the rightful issue The article presents analysis results of the tourist attractions and means of accommodation as part of composition of the rural tourism industry in the Stavropol region. Placement of facilities of rural tourism industry in municipalities of the region is shown. The trend of territorial localization of rural tourism in the Stavropol region within four main areas is proved. The author curries out the analysis of the specific structure of the objects of rural tourism, their tourism specialization and composition of services. The results allowed concluding that the most popular is the strategy of diversification of activities and offers of rural tourism.

Russia in 2000-2004: Heading towards State Capitalism?

2004 ◽  
pp. 42-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Radygin
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Private Business ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
State Capitalism ◽  
The Government

The paper deals with one of the characteristic trends of the 2000s, that is, the government's property expansion. It is accompanied by attempts to consolidate economic structures controlled by the state and state-owned stock packages and unitary enterprises under the aegis of holdings. Besides the government practices selective severe enforcement actions against a number of the largest private companies, strengthens its control over companies with mixed capital and establishes certain informal procedures of relationships between private business and the state. The author examines the YUKOS case and the business community's actual capacity to protect its interests. One can argue that in all likelihood the trend to the 'state capitalism' in its specific Russian variant has become clearer over 2003-2004.

Towards New Policy Incentives for Fixed Capital Investment and Technological Upgrades in Russia

2011 ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
A. Apokin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Fixed Capital ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Technological Modernization ◽  
Fixed Capital Investment ◽  
Policy Incentives

The paper approaches the problem of private fixed capital underinvestment in Russia. The author uses empirical studies of the Russian economy and cases of successful technological modernization to outline several groups of disincentives for private companies to perform fixed capital investment in Russia. To counter these constraints, a certain incentive-based economic policy framework is developed.

Restoration of two great auk (Pinguinus impennis) eggs: Bourman Labrey's egg and the Scarborough egg

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 392-401
Author(s):  
T. R. Birkhead ◽  
G. Axon ◽  
J. R. Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Black Light ◽  
Private Collection ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Public Museums ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Time Of Collection ◽  
Extensive Damage

Most of the approximately 75 known eggs of the extinct great auk ( Pinguinus impennis) are in public museums, with a few in private collections. A small number of these eggs has sustained damage, either at the time of collection or subsequently, and two of these eggs are known to have been repaired. The two eggs suffered rather different types of damage and were subsequently restored using different techniques. The first, known as Bourman Labrey's egg, sustained extensive damage sometime prior to the 1840s, when the shell was broken into numerous pieces. This egg was repaired by William Yarrell in the 1840s, and when it was restored again in 2018, it was discovered that Yarrell's restoration had involved the use of an elaborate cardboard armature. This egg is currently in a private collection. The second egg, known as the Scarborough egg, bequeathed to the Scarborough Museum in 1877, was damaged (by unknown causes) and repaired, probably by the then curator at Scarborough, W. J. Clarke, in 1906. This egg was damaged when one or more pieces were broken adjacent to the blowhole at the narrow end (where there was some pre-existing damage). The media reports at the time exaggerated the extent of the damage, suggesting that the egg was broken almost in two. Possible reasons for this exaggeration are discussed. Recent examination using a black light and ultraviolet (UV) revealed that the eggshell had once borne the words, “a Penguin's Egg”, that were subsequently removed by scraping.

Somethin’ about Scandinavia: Danish Shorts on the Post-war International Scene

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Claire Thomson
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
The Third ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Post War ◽  
Nordic Cooperation

Building on the picture of post-war Anglo-Danish documentary collaboration established in the previous chapter, this chapter examines three cases of international collaboration in which Dansk Kulturfilm and Ministeriernes Filmudvalg were involved in the late 1940s and 1950s. They Guide You Across (Ingolf Boisen, 1949) was commissioned to showcase Scandinavian cooperation in the realm of aviation (SAS) and was adopted by the newly-established United Nations Film Board. The complexities of this film’s production, funding and distribution are illustrative of the activities of the UN Film Board in its first years of operation. The second case study considers Alle mine Skibe (All My Ships, Theodor Christensen, 1951) as an example of a film commissioned and funded under the auspices of the Marshall Plan. This US initiative sponsored informational films across Europe, emphasising national solutions to post-war reconstruction. The third case study, Bent Barfod’s animated film Noget om Norden (Somethin’ about Scandinavia, 1956) explains Nordic cooperation for an international audience, but ironically exposed some gaps in inter-Nordic collaboration in the realm of film.

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