Community-based participatory governance in tourism

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All the 3 articles planned in the project were presented in international conferences and published in international peer-reviewed journals. The first one, reported last year, was undertaken in Barcelona and focused on an institutional form of participatory governance promoted by a local public authority. Based on interviews to ,local stakeholders, the study revealed the difficulties for the achievement of consensual views for strategic tourism development, while showing the increasing collaborative initiatives involving different organizations. The first article published this year was undertaken online in India, revealing the potential of digital technologies for the implementation of large-scale collaborative processes of consultation and decision-making. The study revealed the effectiveness of conjoint analysis for the definition of marketing strategies. Finally, a study undertaken in Sweden combined local stakeholders and tourism students with international researchers, revealing the potential of the open-space methodology as a participatory approach in order to discuss, frame e find solutions common problems of the local community. In particular, the presence of elements not belonging to this community was perceived as an important condition for the achievement of a much wider and creative set of proposals for sustainable tourism development.