Off-season tourists and the cultural offer of a mass-tourism destination: The case of Rimini

This paper assesses the potential implications on off-season tourism of enhancing the cultural offer of Rimini, a popular Italian seaside holiday destination hosting about 12 million overnight stays per year. Since more than 9 million of these stays are concentrated in the summer season, in the last 20 years. Rimini has been undergoing a policy of seasonality smoothing, which mainly pivots around business and cultural tourism. This assessment has been carried out through discrete choice experiments submitted to a sample of about 800 tourists who visited Rimini outside the summer months. Since tourism can be viewed as a composite good, which overall utility depends on how the component characteristics are arranged, the choice experiments allow to disentangle the importance and the willingness to pay of tourists for different attributes of the holiday. The choice model incorporates a number of possible changes to actual tourism features (which are also the subject of public debate), including them in hypothetical alternative “holiday packages”. The conditional logit analysis of the choice experiments can highlight any synergy or trade-off between cultural and business tourism. Results suggest that business and leisure tourists share many features related to the use of the territory, while there are important trade-offs between these two groups and cultural tourists. Since business tourists have a higher willingness to extend their stay, a softer budget, and their demand is also complementary to the demand of summer tourists (Brau, Scorcu, & Vici, 2009), from the destination point of view investing in this market segment would be the best option. Although a “second best”, however, cultural tourists share with the local population of Rimini many aspects of the demand of territory (Figini, Castellani, & Vici, 2009). Hence, cultural tourism can play a fundamental role in the intermediate season as a tool for smoothing seasonality, to diversify investments and to give value to the city’s cultural heritage.     

市级土地开发整理规划编制的探讨

在编制土地开发整理规划过程中，针对国土资源部相关规范中未予明确的一些实际问题，结合地方特点，对规划实施中的一些具体问题进行了尝试和创新，旨在对今后的土地开发整理规划编制工作有所帮助。     

我国城市规划原则方针执行难问题与城市空间效率提升

从法制和城市建设投资的角度对城市规划原则和方针执行难的根本原因进行分析,应用不平衡地理发展原理阐述了其对城市空间效率和构建和谐社会的影响,提出了关于城市规划改革和促进城市空间效率提升的建议。     

基于精细化管理的中山市规划单元划定研究

国土空间规划是国家空间发展的指南和城市可持续发展的蓝图,是各类开发保护建设活动的基本依据.为实现国土空间规划精细化管理,亟需通过合理划定控制性详细规划单元和村庄规划单元,实现国土空间总体规划与详细规划的有效传导.本研究在文献综述和案例分析的基础上,结合中山市详细规划全覆盖需求和规划单元划定现状,探索在国土空间规划精细化...     

基于博弈论的生态旅游环境保护规划政府规制效用分析

环境保护机制的缺失,使＂生态旅游离生态更远＂成为我国的尴尬现实。文章构建政府和企业的博弈模型,从政府规制角度对企业制订和实施生态旅游环境保护规划的行为进行分析,得出博弈双方的均衡战略：政府执行有效监管,对不实施环境保护规划的企业予以适当的惩罚,可以促使企业自觉实施生态环境保护规划,从而证明政府规制企业实施生态旅游环境保护规划能取得很好的效用。     

Governing Suburbia through regionalized land-use planning? Experiences from the Greater Frankfurt region

This paper explores the case of peripheral settlement growth in the Greater Frankfurt (Main) region within current debates on global suburbanization. Within Germany’s sophisticated spatial planning regime, Greater Frankfurt’s system of regionalized land-use planning marks an ambitious initiative to contain urban sprawl. Nonetheless, expansive peripheral settlement growth, and socio-spatial polarization remain distinct characteristics of the booming region. Analyzing state regulation vis-à-vis dynamics of capitalist urbanization and private authoritarianism, we decipher the complex governance arrangements producing this, at first sight, contradictory simultaneity. We uncover the rationales of local growth politics of autonomous municipalities and the region’s multiplied institutional fragmentation that undermine planning ambitions to contain suburban growth. We conclude by critically assessing the political economies of suburbanization in Greater Frankfurt and point to prospects for regional reform.     

浅析环境保护与可持续发展战略问题

2l世纪的中国将不可避免地遭遇到环境与发展的巨大挑战,严重制约了可持续发展。文本通过环境保护与可持续发展的关系谈论了当前可持续发展的问题与以后的发展战略。     

物流设施与城市规划协调分析与应用

从城市规划和物流实务中,寻找出协调基础领域,并加以分析,因而可以更准确和可靠地进行协调工作。     

城市生态景观规模的定量化研究

城市景观的规模受制于城市系统,对城市景观的生态功能有重要影响。结合景观生态学理论,总结了城市景观元素规模的一般原理和规划原则,定量化研究了针对展示教育、城市栖息地等不同设计目标的景观斑块和景观廊道的适宜规模,以期为在现实条件的制约下提高城市景观规划设计的生态可持续性提供科学的依据。     

The ‘demographic timebomb’ and how some hospitality employers are responding to the challenge

The phrase ‘demographic timebomb’ has taken on the aura of a shibbholeth and that everyone knows they ought to be fearful about. But is it really understood and what needs to be done? This article seeks to answer these questions and to shed some light on the employment strategies being developed by some British hospitality employers to counteract the demographic changes of the 1990s. As a result, some of the myth that the hospitality industry is lagging behind other industries can be dispelled but other findings support popular testimony that the industry faces special problems.