Islandscapes and Sustainable Creative Tourism: A Conceptual Framework and Guidelines for Best Practices
As strategies for the development of creative tourism multiply in contexts ranging from global cities to small communities, the need for a clearer conceptual framework, capable of better differentiating existing approaches, has become more evident. Building upon existing knowledge on cultural and cr...
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| author | Alexandra Baixinho Carlos Santos Gualter Couto Isabel Soares de Albergaria Leonor Sampaio da Silva Pilar Damião Medeiros Rosa Maria Neves Simas |
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| description | As strategies for the development of creative tourism multiply in contexts ranging from global cities to small communities, the need for a clearer conceptual framework, capable of better differentiating existing approaches, has become more evident. Building upon existing knowledge on cultural and creative tourism, and on a prior review of the literature on creative tourism on islands, this paper proposes a typology of creative tourism initiatives, and after examining this new categorization, develops the concept of sustainable creative tourism. Through highlighting the need for creative tourism developers, policymakers, and practitioners to deepen their engagement with more holistic and integrated approaches oriented towards sustainable development in all its dimensions (economic, environmental, social, and cultural), the authors systematize a set of international principles and policy recommendations meant to promote sustainable creative tourism development strategies, duly adjusted to different places and realities, with an emphasis on vulnerable islandscapes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2808ae8fc6e8420985ab66be4b4d58052023-11-23T09:10:26ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2021-11-011012130210.3390/land10121302Islandscapes and Sustainable Creative Tourism: A Conceptual Framework and Guidelines for Best PracticesAlexandra Baixinho0Carlos Santos1Gualter Couto2Isabel Soares de Albergaria3Leonor Sampaio da Silva4Pilar Damião Medeiros5Rosa Maria Neves Simas6Azores Tourism Observatory (OTA), Avenida Infante D. Henrique, No. 71 Solmar Avenida Center-Esc. 101, 9504-529 Ponta Delgada, PortugalAzores Tourism Observatory (OTA), Avenida Infante D. Henrique, No. 71 Solmar Avenida Center-Esc. 101, 9504-529 Ponta Delgada, PortugalCentre of Applied Economics Studies of the Atlantic—CEEAplA, School of Business and Economics, University of the Azores, 9500-321 Ponta Delgada, PortugalCentre for the Humanities (CHAM), University of the Azores, 9500-321 Ponta Delgada, PortugalCentre for the Humanities (CHAM), University of the Azores, 9500-321 Ponta Delgada, PortugalInterdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, University of the Azores (CICS.UAc/CICS.NOVA.UAc), 9500-321 Ponta Delgada, PortugalInterdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, University of the Azores (CICS.UAc/CICS.NOVA.UAc), 9500-321 Ponta Delgada, PortugalAs strategies for the development of creative tourism multiply in contexts ranging from global cities to small communities, the need for a clearer conceptual framework, capable of better differentiating existing approaches, has become more evident. Building upon existing knowledge on cultural and creative tourism, and on a prior review of the literature on creative tourism on islands, this paper proposes a typology of creative tourism initiatives, and after examining this new categorization, develops the concept of sustainable creative tourism. Through highlighting the need for creative tourism developers, policymakers, and practitioners to deepen their engagement with more holistic and integrated approaches oriented towards sustainable development in all its dimensions (economic, environmental, social, and cultural), the authors systematize a set of international principles and policy recommendations meant to promote sustainable creative tourism development strategies, duly adjusted to different places and realities, with an emphasis on vulnerable islandscapes.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/12/1302sustainable creative tourismconceptual frameworkislandscultural landscapesguidelinespolicy recommendations |
| spellingShingle | Alexandra Baixinho Carlos Santos Gualter Couto Isabel Soares de Albergaria Leonor Sampaio da Silva Pilar Damião Medeiros Rosa Maria Neves Simas Islandscapes and Sustainable Creative Tourism: A Conceptual Framework and Guidelines for Best Practices Land sustainable creative tourism conceptual framework islands cultural landscapes guidelines policy recommendations |
| title | Islandscapes and Sustainable Creative Tourism: A Conceptual Framework and Guidelines for Best Practices |
| title_full | Islandscapes and Sustainable Creative Tourism: A Conceptual Framework and Guidelines for Best Practices |
| title_fullStr | Islandscapes and Sustainable Creative Tourism: A Conceptual Framework and Guidelines for Best Practices |
| title_full_unstemmed | Islandscapes and Sustainable Creative Tourism: A Conceptual Framework and Guidelines for Best Practices |
| title_short | Islandscapes and Sustainable Creative Tourism: A Conceptual Framework and Guidelines for Best Practices |
| title_sort | islandscapes and sustainable creative tourism a conceptual framework and guidelines for best practices |
| topic | sustainable creative tourism conceptual framework islands cultural landscapes guidelines policy recommendations |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/12/1302 |
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