Smart specialisation and tourism: Understanding the priority choices in EU regions

Bianca Biagi; Maria Giovanna Brandano; Raquel Ortega-Argiles

doi:10.1016/j.seps.2020.100883

Smart specialisation and tourism: Understanding the priority choices in EU regions

Bianca Biagi, Maria Giovanna Brandano^*, Raquel Ortega-Argiles

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This paper examines the regions that have chosen tourism-related strategies as a priority of smart specialisation (S3) policies within the reformed EU Cohesion Policy. The paper collects data provided by the Smart Specialisation Platform (Eye@RIS3) from 2013 to 2018 for 191 EU regions to investigate regional determinants affecting the probability to choose tourism as one of their S3 priorities. Results show that tourism is considered as priority for almost half EU regions of the sample and that these regions have not homogeneous characteristics. Tourism represents the strategic choice of already developed tourism destinations as well as regions with no tourism specialisation. No specific relationship emerges between tourism concentration and the choice of tourism as their S3 priority.

Original language	English
Article number	100883
Journal	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2020.100883
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2020

Keywords

Cohesion policy
Discrete choice model
European Union
Innovation
Smart specialisation
Tourism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Geography, Planning and Development
Economics and Econometrics
Strategy and Management
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Management Science and Operations Research

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