Abstract

Policy-led interventions in the tourism domain should acknowledge the particular challenges of the territories to be implemented to promote desirable impacts. When intervention areas exceed the national level, the indicator approach may prove effective in determining the particular needs of different areas, thus better identifying projects that could bring the most change to lagging areas. The present study tests the potential of indicators to drive spatially targeted policies by proposing and implementing a methodological framework that examines whether the activities of selected projects under the 1^st call of the Interreg-MED Thematic Objective of Sustainable Tourism effectively covered the needs of the Mediterranean regions. Furthermore, it builds regional clusters as a means to prioritize future interventions in the most suitable regions, in consideration of their particular weaknesses. The analysis revealed that interventions could have been more effectively allocated, and that more active participation of Mediterranean regions is needed. The proposed framework could serve as a starting point for enhancing the evaluation processes for project selection and lead to improvements in the policy framework for sustainable tourism.

摘要

以政策为主导的旅游领域干预措施应承认要实施的地区的特殊挑战，以促进理想的影响。当干预领域超过国家层面时，指标方法在确定不同地区的特定需求方面可能证明是有效的，从而更好地确定可能给落后地区带来最大变化的项目。本研究通过提出和实施一个方法框架来检验指标推动空间目标政策的潜力，该框架检查选定项目的活动是否在 1 ^stInterreg-MED 可持续旅游主题目标的呼吁有效地涵盖了地中海地区的需求。此外，考虑到它们的特殊弱点，它建立了区域集群，作为优先考虑最合适区域的未来干预措施的一种手段。分析表明，干预措施可以更有效地分配，需要地中海地区更积极的参与。拟议的框架可以作为加强项目选择评估过程的起点，并导致可持续旅游政策框架的改进。