Indigenous tourism is an expansive sector in the growing tourism industry. The Sami people living in Sápmi in northern Europe have started to engage in tourism, particularly in view of the rationalised and modernised methods of reindeer herding. Sami tourism offers job opportunities and enables the spreading of information. On the other hand, Sami tourism may jeopardise the indigenous culture and harm the sensitive environment in which the Sami live. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the supply and demand of Sami tourism in northern Sweden. This is presented in four articles. The first article analyses the potential of the emerging Sami tourism in Sweden, with special emphasis on the access to Sami tourism products. The study shows that there is a growing supply of tourism activities related to the Swedish Sami. The development of tourism is, however, restricted by factors such as the peripheral location and the lack of traditions of entrepreneurship. The second article analyse which factors influence tourists when they make their decisions about Sami tourism. In the article the respondents are requested to answer a number of hypothetical questions, ranking their preferences regarding supply, price and access. The study indicates that tourism related to the Sami and Sami culture has a considerable future potential, but also that there is a gap between supply and demand. In the third article the analysis shows that the festival in Jokkmokk, thanks to continuously added attractions, has been able to retain a rather high level of popularity, despite its peripheral location. Finally, the fourth article analyses to what extent the winter festival in Jokkmokk is a genuinely indigenous event, and to what extent it is staged. It is argued that the indigenous culture presented at the festival and in media is highly staged, although backstage experiences are available for the Sami and for the tourists who show a special interest.

Questo lavoro consiste in una collezione di 8 paper accettati da altrettante Conference internazionali di diverso indirizzo disciplinare, dal marketing B2B all'organizzazione aziendale ai sistemi informativi. In questi paper, si affronta da diversi punti di vista il tema dei business network e di come il business networking influenzi la capacità di innovazione delle imprese. Le ricerche presentate confermano su più fronti come le classiche variabili con cui si misurano i business network, quali la fiducia, la conoscenza reciproca, l'intensità dei flussi di risorse scambiate, eccetera, per quanto importanti, non siano sufficienti a spiegare l'influenza che il network ha sulle capacità di innovazione. Vengono quindi proposti 3 nuovi costrutti: Motivazioni al business network, Attitudine alle relazioni di business di lungo periodo, e Sostenibilità della collaborazione altruistica. Il lavoro ipotizza come diverse configurazioni di queste tre variabili possono influenzare le capacità di innovazione dell'organizzazione. Alcune ricerche qualitative, focalizzate sul settore turistico (sistema destinazione) e sul manifatturiero (supply chain) permettono di mettere a confronto il modello con contesti di business concreti. / The system of the organization's long-term business relationships is the organization's Business Network. This theory-building thesis focuses on how business networking influences the organization's performances, and more specifically its innovation capabilities. An important gap in theory is identified, since there is a lack of consistent research explaining why even Business Networks where all the traditional variables (such as Trust, Cooperation, Number of Ties, Strength of Ties, etc.) are ranking high, may perform poorly in terms of innovation capabilities. An inter-disciplinary effort may be a fruitful strategy for addressing such a gap in theory. Consistently, this thesis was structured as a collection of 8 papers submitted to and accepted by different international Conferences, whose disciplinary focus spanned from B2B marketing to organization studies, Information Systems, Operations research and eParticipation studies. These papers include qualitative researches for theory-building, and the considered cases belong to different industrial sectors such as Tourism and Manufacturing. The main novel outcomes of this work are: the identification of new Constructs (and related Scales) describing phenomena that influence, according to the qualitative researches conducted here, the innovation capabilities of Business Networks; and the in-depth analysis of how successful and sustainable innovation emerges from creative processes in collaborative settings. The identifed Constructs are: Motivations to Business Network, Attitude to Long-Term Business Relationships, Sustainability of Altruistic Cooperation. This work hypothesizes that if the main Motivation to Networking is the predictability of business interactions, this may result in a detrimental effect on Creativity/Innovation, and in a weakened resilience of the Altruistic Cooperation. On the other hand, if the main Motivation to Networking is to aggregate power, for example for lobbying activities, this tends to enhance only certain aspects of Altruistic Cooperation, whilst Creativity/Innovation at the network level is likely to be poorer. Finally, if the main Motivation to Networking is to aggregate capabilities, both Altruistic Cooperation and Creativity/Innovation are often positively impacted, especially when also certain levels of Predictability and of Power Aggregation are achieved.

The aim of the thesis is to focus on future development of tourism in the czech national park Krkonoše. This region is divided in a conflict between ecologists and supporters of further development of tourism in the area. National park is a traditional and popular tourist destination but the protection of nature is an important aspect of any further development. The only possible future of the czech mountains is development acording to the principles of sustainability.

Pesquisa sobre o processo de inventariação da oferta turística, com foco no projeto-piloto do Ministério de Turismo desenvolvido nos municípios do Rio Grande do Sul no período de 2005 a 2006, com o apoio de docentes e discentes de cursos superiores de Turismo. Objetiva analisar a eficácia da metodologia do inventário, sinalizando métodos que permitam a sua compreensão como um instrumento dinâmico, capaz de subsidiar o planejamento sustentável do Turismo. Com base na Dialética Histórico-Estrutural, o estudo foi realizado por meio de: análise do modelo de inventário da oferta turística; compreensão das categorias de análise do fenômeno turístico através da complexidade de suas inter-relações; e verificação da postura de pesquisadores do tema. Os meios de pesquisa utilizados foram: a entrevista semi-estruturada, a observação participante e a análise de conteúdo. Os resultados discorrem sobre os aspectos da produção de conhecimento turístico, as contradições em relação aos avanços na concepção do Turismo como um fenômeno social complexo e os parâmetros adotados no inventário da oferta turística. A conclusão foi de que a metodologia do Inventário da Oferta Turística, por ser fragmentada, reducionista, a-histórica e mecanicista, seguindo uma lógica positivista, não alcança o complexo fenômeno do Turismo. Por sua vez, a visão dos participantes do projeto-piloto no Rio Grande do Sul mostra a fragilidade do processo, falta de comprometimento e de conectividade entre pesquisa, projeto e Política Nacional de Turismo. Assim, não houve a construção de dados científicos efetivos e abrangentes, o que tornou frágil e parcial a base de dados para o planejamento do Turismo. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-19T19:04:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Debora Beron.pdf: 1667108 bytes, checksum: 1a955f0effd8a13ce77bc27f6a370ff7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-19T19:04:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Debora Beron.pdf: 1667108 bytes, checksum: 1a955f0effd8a13ce77bc27f6a370ff7 (MD5) / Research on the inventory process of tourism supply, focusing on the Ministry of Tourism pilot project developed in the cities located in Rio Grande do Sul in the years of 2005 and 2006, supported by professors and students of superior courses of Tourism. It aims to analyze the effectiveness of the inventory methodology, pointing methods that allow its understanding as a dynamic instrument, able to subsidize the Tourism sustainable planning. Based on Historical-Structural Dialectic, the study was carried through by means of: analyzing the tourism supply inventory model; comprehending the analysis categories of the tourist phenomenon through the complexity of its Inter-relations; and verifying the subject researchers position. The research tools used were: the half-structuralized interview, the participant observation and the content analysis. The results discourse on the aspects of the tourist knowledge production, the contradictions in relation to the advances in the Tourism conception as a complex social phenomenon and the parameters adopted in the tourism supply inventory. The conclusion was that being the tourism supply inventory methodology fragmented, reduced, non-historical and mechanist, as well as following a positivist logic, does not reach the Tourism complex phenomenon. Therefore, the pilot project participants vision shows process fragility, and lack of compromise and connectivity among research, projects and the National Politics of Tourism. Thus, there was not any construction of effective and broad scientific data, making the database for Tourism planning fragile and partial.

Pesquisa sobre o processo de inventariação da oferta turística, com foco no projeto-piloto do Ministério de Turismo desenvolvido nos municípios do Rio Grande do Sul no período de 2005 a 2006, com o apoio de docentes e discentes de cursos superiores de Turismo. Objetiva analisar a eficácia da metodologia do inventário, sinalizando métodos que permitam a sua compreensão como um instrumento dinâmico, capaz de subsidiar o planejamento sustentável do Turismo. Com base na Dialética Histórico-Estrutural, o estudo foi realizado por meio de: análise do modelo de inventário da oferta turística; compreensão das categorias de análise do fenômeno turístico através da complexidade de suas inter-relações; e verificação da postura de pesquisadores do tema. Os meios de pesquisa utilizados foram: a entrevista semi-estruturada, a observação participante e a análise de conteúdo. Os resultados discorrem sobre os aspectos da produção de conhecimento turístico, as contradições em relação aos avanços na concepção do Turismo como um fenômeno social complexo e os parâmetros adotados no inventário da oferta turística. A conclusão foi de que a metodologia do Inventário da Oferta Turística, por ser fragmentada, reducionista, a-histórica e mecanicista, seguindo uma lógica positivista, não alcança o complexo fenômeno do Turismo. Por sua vez, a visão dos participantes do projeto-piloto no Rio Grande do Sul mostra a fragilidade do processo, falta de comprometimento e de conectividade entre pesquisa, projeto e Política Nacional de Turismo. Assim, não houve a construção de dados científicos efetivos e abrangentes, o que tornou frágil e parcial a base de dados para o planejamento do Turismo. / Research on the inventory process of tourism supply, focusing on the Ministry of Tourism pilot project developed in the cities located in Rio Grande do Sul in the years of 2005 and 2006, supported by professors and students of superior courses of Tourism. It aims to analyze the effectiveness of the inventory methodology, pointing methods that allow its understanding as a dynamic instrument, able to subsidize the Tourism sustainable planning. Based on Historical-Structural Dialectic, the study was carried through by means of: analyzing the tourism supply inventory model; comprehending the analysis categories of the tourist phenomenon through the complexity of its Inter-relations; and verifying the subject researchers position. The research tools used were: the half-structuralized interview, the participant observation and the content analysis. The results discourse on the aspects of the tourist knowledge production, the contradictions in relation to the advances in the Tourism conception as a complex social phenomenon and the parameters adopted in the tourism supply inventory. The conclusion was that being the tourism supply inventory methodology fragmented, reduced, non-historical and mechanist, as well as following a positivist logic, does not reach the Tourism complex phenomenon. Therefore, the pilot project participants vision shows process fragility, and lack of compromise and connectivity among research, projects and the National Politics of Tourism. Thus, there was not any construction of effective and broad scientific data, making the database for Tourism planning fragile and partial.

The aim of my diploma thesis was based on evaluation of the offer of tourism services in towns Hluboka nad Vltavou and Trhove Sviny and their comparison with the wiew of contribution of tourism for the municipality and its budget. In the thesis there an offer of the tourism services is mapped, the impact of tourism on municipal budgets is analyzed and the tourism multiplier in both municipalities is set. As the output of the thesis is recomended to set a position of destination manager in Hluboka nad Vltavou, a position of project manager in Trhove Sviny and another minor remedies headed towards tourism develoment in Trhové Sviny.

This thesis is about the characterization and analysis of regional tourism and macro-environment analysis of the potential boarding house with restaurant. The purpose is to provide sufficient informations for strategic decisions and recommendations of the strategic plan.

Ο σχεδιασμός και η εφαρμογή Περιφερειακών Δορυφόρων Λογαριασμών Τουρισμού (Π-ΔΛΤ) στον ελλαδικό χώρο αποτελεί ένα από τα κύρια ζητούμενα από πλευράς τουριστικής και γενικότερα οικονομικής πολιτικής σε επίπεδο περιφέρειας. Η παρούσα διατριβή προσεγγίζει το πλαίσιο των Δορυφόρων Λογαριασμών Τουρισμού (ΔΛΤ) και την μεθοδολογία προσαρμογής τους σε περιφερειακό επίπεδο. Παρεμβαίνει με τις απαραίτητες μεθοδολογικές αναδιατάξεις σε ένα συστηματοποιημένο πλαίσιο που προτείνει ο Παγκόσμιος Οργανισμός Τουρισμού (ΠΟΤ) για την αξιολογική προσέγγιση των στατιστικών πηγών και δεδομένων με αναλυτική αξία για την κατάρτιση ΔΛΤ. Οι αναδιατάξεις στο πλαίσιο συντελούνται σε δύο επίπεδα. Το πρώτο αφορά στην επέκταση των αναλυτικών του δυνατοτήτων σε περιφερειακό επίπεδο ανάλυσης. Σε δεύτερο επίπεδο οι τροποποιήσεις στο πλαίσιο ακολουθούν τις θεωρητικές και μεθοδολογικές αναθεωρήσεις που έχουν συντελεστεί στα προσφάτως αναθεωρημένα διεθνή πρότυπα για την τουριστική στατιστική, τους Δορυφόρους Λογαριασμούς Τουρισμού και τα μακροοικονομικά πλαίσια με τα οποία συνδέονται. Ως παράδειγμα εφαρμογής του αναβαθμισμένου πλέον πλαισίου έχει επιλεγεί η περίπτωση της Ελλάδος. Η μεθοδολογική και αξιολογική προσέγγιση της διατριβής επιφέρει βελτιώσεις στο πλαίσιο καταγραφής και αξιολόγησης του ΠΟΤ και χαρτογραφεί το στατιστικό σύστημα της χώρας κατά τρόπο συστηματοποιημένο ως προς τις αναλυτικές ανάγκες των Π-ΔΛΤ, συνιστώντας ένα από τα πρώτα θεμελιώδη βήματα προς την μακρά και απαιτητική πορεία για την κατάρτισή τους στην χώρα μας. / Designing and implementing Regional Tourism Satellite Accounts (R-TSA) in Greece is one of the key objectives in terms of tourism and general economic policy at regional level. This thesis approaches the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) framework and its methodological adaptation to regional level. It proposes the necessary methodological adjustments in a systematic framework recommended by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) for documenting tourism statistics for TSA compilation. Framework adjustments take place at a twofold level: a) expanding the analytical capability at regional level and b) adapting the structure according to the theoretical and methodological revisions that have taken place in recently revised international standards for tourism statistics, Tourism Satellite Accounts and the macroeconomic frameworks with which they are linked. Greece has been chosen as a case study for applying the adjusted framework at regional level. The followed methodological and evaluative approach has improved the UNWTO framework for documenting tourism statistics and has led to a systemised mapping of the Greek statistical system in relation to the analytical needs projected for the compilation of R-TSAs, constituting one of the first fundamental steps towards a long and demanding process.