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SpringerBriefs in applied sciences and technology, 2023

Cycling & Walking for Regional Development

Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2019

The paper investigates whether the value of cultural heritage can be enhanced through what we hav... more The paper investigates whether the value of cultural heritage can be enhanced through what we have termed “slow tourism infrastructure”, connecting individual assets in a regional network. It examines the context of Italian inner areas, where phenomena of marginalisation risk leaving a vast amount of heritage in a state of abandonment. Slow tourism infrastructure, such as long-distance cycle and walking paths, can be considered threads which connect local areas and regenerate heritage dispersed throughout the territory. The main aim of this study is to contribute to the regeneration of the inner areas thanks to the potential of what has been called their “territorial capital” which consists of the natural, cultural and human capital that characterises different regions. Slow tourism infrastructure makes it possible to experience this capital in an alternative way by connecting the area through which it passes in a linear fashion. The paper analyses the relationship between cultural ...

Cycling & Walking for Regional Development, 2020

Tourism represents a strategy that can be used to imagine the development of marginal areas. But ... more Tourism represents a strategy that can be used to imagine the development of marginal areas. But what type of tourism? Slow tourism is considered in literature and by themain development policies ofmarginal areas as one of the forms of tourism that best lends itself to the specific context of these territories. There are three factors whose possible relationship and interaction will be studied: tourism, slowness, and marginal areas. In this piece, the matter of marginal areas is not discussed, and it is taken as fact. What is discussed is the combination of slowness and tourism, often identified with the idea of “slow tourism”. The article proposes its own definition of slow tourism, where slowness, as a conscious and alternative attitude, invests in and modifies the economic sector of tourism. We therefore identify the attitudes of slowness that bring meaning to a territorial project, useful to the development (not only financial but also cultural and social) of marginal areas. Fro...

Revista Galega de Economía

The analysis of the economic dimension relating to the Way of St. James is confronted in a double... more The analysis of the economic dimension relating to the Way of St. James is confronted in a double reflection. On the one hand, the intention is to reconstruct the public funds that have supported the project to relaunch the Way over the years. On the other hand, we discuss one of the impacts of the route on the territory - that relating to economic development following the “second coming” of tourism. The analysis of both aspects shows rather unexpected results. In the first case it is shown how slow tourism projects can be real priority axes on which to concentrate large public funds. The second calls into question the effective ability of a path, albeit with significant tourist flows, to activate demographic recovery and to improve economic conditions. However, the need is discussed to investigate the question in greater detail which, if analyzed in the various parts, really shows the importance, not only economic, that the process of development of the Way has entailed for the te...

Religions

The Way of St. James in Spain is the main European pilgrimage route. Currently, it is a cultural,... more The Way of St. James in Spain is the main European pilgrimage route. Currently, it is a cultural, tourist, monumental, spiritual, and sports route. For this reason, the paper aims to discuss the concept of the “Polysemy of The Way”, by analysing how the new pilgrims’ motivations are creating an inclusive and complex space, which is making a shift from religious space to a multifaceted tourism reality. We study the characterisation and interaction of the new actors involved in its development, maintenance and promotion. As a result, its original “space of faith” is now a “live heritage space”, thanks to the rehabilitation of routes, monuments, and landscapes. The combination of these motivational and spatial transformations enhances the factors of post-secular pilgrimage, such as slow mobility, the liminality and the sense of community, which the same actors assume as priorities for territorial management.

ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI

City, Territory and Architecture

This study aims at demonstrating how cycle tourism could activate a regeneration of small and med... more This study aims at demonstrating how cycle tourism could activate a regeneration of small and medium sized stations in inland areas, able to involve also territorial and urban areas hosting these stations. Starting point of this research is the issue of the small and medium sized Italian stations, mostly unused even if they are still active as rail service. Since control of trains' traffic is organized only in bigger railway yards, small stations are gradually becoming empty containers: ghost stations, without any railway personnel. Thanks to the potentiality of the cycle tourism, riding slow through landscapes, it becomes possible to valorize and safeguard this heritage, not only exploiting its potentiality as shiftnode between train and bike, but also imaging a systemic strategy triggering urban, territorial and social reactivation. Main challenge was to experiment how another model of mobility, the cycle tourism, able to promote a territorial project preferring to pass slowly through the inland areas, avoided by the fast infrastructural lines, could contribute in such regeneration process. In order to validate this intuition, it was carried out a project of four stations in proximity of the cycle tourist path VENTO, along the Po River. These stations were transformed in "green mobility hubs", where shifting from train to bicycle and vice versa. This becomes the occasion to imagining new functions hosted in empty spaces of stations (both internal and external): they will provide cycle tourists with territorial info and specific services, such as repair areas and bikes and baggage safekeeping and both tourists and local inhabitants with social activities in order to bring them to live again station's area. These functions want to generate an expectation, both in tourists and local people, to rediscover the territory around: in this way stations reassume their role of urban and territorial gates.