Il turismo nelle aree marginali del Mezzogiorno: tra mito e realtà

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Abstract

The paper explores the relationship between tourism and marginal areas, focusing on Italian inner areas. It examines governmental strategies aimed at enhancing their tourism potential, questioning whether they reflect a genuine understanding of local resources or reproduce institutional myths surrounding tourism-driven development. Using a mixed-method approach that combines quantitative data and qualitative insights from key informants, the analysis shows that, despite often holding more tourism assets than central areas, inner areas struggle to activate them due to structural constraints and deficit in policy coordination and implementation.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Jan. 23, 2025 | Accepted: June 10, 2025 | Published Nov. 4, 2025 | Language: it

Keywords Territorial inequalities • Development policies • Inner areas • Tourism • Local development

Copyright © 2025 Fabrizio Ferreri, Davide Luca Arcidiacono , Maurizio Avola . This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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