This book studies the Chinese "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI), also called "New Silk Road", and focuses on its regional and local effects. Written by experts from various fields, it presents a range of case studies on the geopolitical, socio-economic, ecological and cultural implications of the BRI for European regions and their stakeholders. The book is divided into four parts, the first of which discusses the history of and China's motivations for the BRI. The second part explores the global phenomenon from a number of regional standpoints. In turn, the third part presents studies on the political, socio-economic, cultural and ecological implications of the New Silk Road project. The final part highlights the tourism prospects in connection with the Silk Road project, as tourism has established itself as an important economic sector in many regions along the historic Silk Road. This book will appeal to scholars of economics, international relations and tourism, decision-makers, managers, chambers of commerce and entrepreneurs with special interests in establishing collaboration with the Chinese market.

This book calls for rethinking the meaning of sustainable development in tourism and explores how sustainability and resilience could be integrated. It argues that these concepts should be seen as interwoven processes, rather than alternative approaches. Resilience should be understood as a fundamental part of sustainable tourism thinking for destination systems. This can be achieved by calling for better governance in implementation and management. With insights from leading experts, chapters focus on resilient destinations from this governance perspective, in which tourism resilience is contextualized as an integral part of pathway creation in the process of moving towards sustainable tourism. The chapters represent a range of theoretical and empirical approaches with a wide international scope to demonstrate how governance is the key issue in sustainable tourism development. This book will appeal to a wide range of research disciplines and students whose modules focus on the relationship between tourism with respect to sustainability planning, governance, environment, and hazards and disasters.

This book explains and analyzes entrepreneurship and cultural management issues in the creative and cultural sectors and discusses the impacts of economic, social and structural changes on cultural entrepreneurship. The expert contributions investigate the role of cultural entrepreneurship in regional and destination management and development by presenting best practice examples. It offers various interdisciplinary approaches, including perspectives from the fields of entrepreneurship and management, regional and destination management and development, sociology, psychology, innovation as well as creative industries, and also features articles exploring cultural entrepreneurship on a corporate as well as on a spatial level - or in other words in regions and destinations.

This book examines the current use of digital media in religious engagement and how new media can influence and alter faith and spirituality. As technologies are introduced and improved, they continue to raise pressing questions about the impact, both positive and negative, that they have on the lives of those that use them. The book also deals with some of the more futuristic and speculative topics related to transhumanism and digitalization. Including an international group of contributors from a variety of disciplines, chapters address the intersection of religion and digital media from multiple perspectives. Divided into two sections, the chapters included in the first section of the book present case studies from five major religions: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism and their engagement with digitalization. The second section of the volume explores the moral, ideological but also ontological implications of our increasingly digital lives. This book provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the development of religion and spirituality in the digital age. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Digital Religion, Religion and Media, Religion and Sociology, as well as Religious Studies and New Media more generally, but also for every student interested in the future of religion and spirituality in a completely digitalized world.

Overtourism explores a growing phenomenon in tourism that is currently creating tensions in both urban and rural tourist destinations worldwide. This volume proposes a framework for a series of possible solutions and management strategies for dealing with overtourism and the various negative impacts that large quantities of tourists can impose. Questioning the causes of this phenomenon - such as increased prosperity and mobility, technological development, issues of security and stigma for certain parts of the world, and so on - this book supposes that better visitor management strategies and distribution of tourists can offset the negative impacts of overtourism. Individual chapters focus on a range of destinations including Venice, Barcelona and Dubrovnik, as well as UNESCO cultural and natural heritage sites, where local political actors and public authorities are not always able to deal with the situation effectively. Integrating research and practice, this book will be of great interest to upper-level students, researchers and academics in tourism, development studies, cultural studies and sustainability, as well as professionals in the field of tourism management.

This book examines the current use of digital media in religious engagement and how new media can influence and alter faith and spirituality. As technologies are introduced and improved, they continue to raise pressing questions about the impact, both positive and negative, that they have on the lives of those that use them. The book also deals with some of the more futuristic and speculative topics related to transhumanism and digitalization. Including an international group of contributors from a variety of disciplines, chapters address the intersection of religion and digital media from multiple perspectives. Divided into two sections, the chapters included in the first section of the book present case studies from five major religions: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism and their engagement with digitalization. The second section of the volume explores the moral, ideological but also ontological implications of our increasingly digital lives. This book provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the development of religion and spirituality in the digital age. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Digital Religion, Religion and Media, Religion and Sociology, as well as Religious Studies and New Media more generally, but also for every student interested in the future of religion and spirituality in a completely digitalized world.

Dr Pechlaner and Dr Innerhofer, the editors of Competence-Based Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism, argue that the industry operates within highly challenging and competitive environments. Changing environmental and market conditions continually force hotel businesses and service providers to offer their customers new and modified products and services, in order to remain competitive; those which respect value perceptions of markets and sustainable stakeholder reactions. This then raises the question of how innovations within this industry must be developed in order to achieve competitive differentiation. The book demonstrates that the development and analysis of successful innovation strategies should integrate the resource-based view and its advancements, the competence-based view, as well as the dynamic capabilities approach and the relational view. Resource-based strategic management approaches view the firm as a bundle of resources and competences. They point to the importance of firm-specific resources and competences in explaining variations in competitive positions and performance differentiation between companies. The challenge of hospitality and tourism is to develop resources and competences that drive innovations. This book will serve to advance the status quo of tourism research literature by combining innovation theories with network theories and tourism and destination development, by illustrating the development of cooperative competences and innovations in tourism and by showing, in a tailored way, how the challenge of the development of resources and competences that drive innovations in tourism can be managed.

The nature of work is changing, due to demographic shifts, globalization, and digitization. Regional local labor markets are in global competition for (highly) qualified and specialized workers. At the same time, the workforce's desire for flexibility and the increasing speed at which skill requirements are changing are producing disparities at the spatial, social, and economic levels. This book discusses the global and local drivers behind these developments. It explores the factors which cause global inequalities between urban and rural areas, and highlights how cities, regions and countries attract these sought-after employees to address skills shortages. The book includes an in-depth case study on high-skilled workers in South Tyrol, Italy. No single academic discipline can adequately capture the dynamics of the future labor market, and the authors therefore take an interdisciplinary approach, combining insights from different disciplines. This book will be a valuable resource for policymakers, students and researchers seeking to understand the driving forces behind the ever-changing labor market and the future of high-skilled work.

Dr Pechlaner and Dr Innerhofer, the editors of Competence-Based Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism, argue that the industry operates within highly challenging and competitive environments. Changing environmental and market conditions continually force hotel businesses and service providers to offer their customers new and modified products and services, in order to remain competitive; those which respect value perceptions of markets and sustainable stakeholder reactions. This then raises the question of how innovations within this industry must be developed in order to achieve competitive differentiation. The book demonstrates that the development and analysis of successful innovation strategies should integrate the resource-based view and its advancements, the competence-based view, as well as the dynamic capabilities approach and the relational view. Resource-based strategic management approaches view the firm as a bundle of resources and competences. They point to the importance of firm-specific resources and competences in explaining variations in competitive positions and performance differentiation between companies. The challenge of hospitality and tourism is to develop resources and competences that drive innovations. This book will serve to advance the status quo of tourism research literature by combining innovation theories with network theories and tourism and destination development, by illustrating the development of cooperative competences and innovations in tourism and by showing, in a tailored way, how the challenge of the development of resources and competences that drive innovations in tourism can be managed.

Sich verändernde politische, gesellschaftliche, technologische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklungen führen zu komplexen Herausforderungen in touristischen Zielgebieten und machen neue Ansätze im Destinationsmanagement erforderlich. Um innovative Möglichkeiten der Destinationsentwicklung aufzuzeigen, können Konzepte aus der Designforschung Anwendung finden. Design ist in der Lage, eine Brücke zwischen verschiedenen Disziplinen zu schlagen und neue Lösungen aufzuzeigen. Das Buch umfasst eine Vielfalt integrativer Ansätze an der Schnittstelle aus Tourismus-, Destinations- und Designforschung, beleuchtet neue Zugänge und bereichert durch Empirie und konkrete Beispiele den Forschungsstand im Bereich Destination Design.

This book studies the Chinese "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI), also called "New Silk Road", and focuses on its regional and local effects. Written by experts from various fields, it presents a range of case studies on the geopolitical, socio-economic, ecological and cultural implications of the BRI for European regions and their stakeholders. The book is divided into four parts, the first of which discusses the history of and China's motivations for the BRI. The second part explores the global phenomenon from a number of regional standpoints. In turn, the third part presents studies on the political, socio-economic, cultural and ecological implications of the New Silk Road project. The final part highlights the tourism prospects in connection with the Silk Road project, as tourism has established itself as an important economic sector in many regions along the historic Silk Road. This book will appeal to scholars of economics, international relations and tourism, decision-makers, managers, chambers of commerce and entrepreneurs with special interests in establishing collaboration with the Chinese market.

"Governance is about managing networks". This quote from political scientist Rod A.W. Rhodes pioneered a whole series of governance studies in different disciplines. Accordingly, destination governance describes the collective management of tourism destinations. Promoting collective action in tourism destinations means dealing with a myriad of different actors and applying various instruments. Probably the most basic requirement is to take into account the peculiarities of every single destination. Therefore, this book approaches the issue of contemporary destination governance from a case study point of view focusing on 16 destinations. In contrast to other publications in the field of destination governance, the book concentrates on the discussion of cases and the peculiarities of destinations which influence the destination governance. It demonstrates how different theories from the fields of organizational studies, strategic management, tourism research and sociology can enlighten our understanding of particular real-world situations. Last but not least the bottom-up approach supports practitioners and students by making otherwise complex theories accessible to a broader audience.

This book explains and analyzes entrepreneurship and cultural management issues in the creative and cultural sectors and discusses the impacts of economic, social and structural changes on cultural entrepreneurship. The expert contributions investigate the role of cultural entrepreneurship in regional and destination management and development by presenting best practice examples. It offers various interdisciplinary approaches, including perspectives from the fields of entrepreneurship and management, regional and destination management and development, sociology, psychology, innovation as well as creative industries, and also features articles exploring cultural entrepreneurship on a corporate as well as on a spatial level - or in other words in regions and destinations.

The Festschrift in honor of Prof. Dr. Peter Keller, president of the International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (AIEST) since 1994, represents a wide range of tourism research as well as the current state of the ongoing debates in tourism as a scientific research field. The aim is to cover multiple topics and trends in travelling and to discuss future development possibilities in the leisure industry.

This book uncovers the current knowledge on entrepreneurial cultures and the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems between Asia and Europe. Broadening the scope spatially and conceptually, the book discusses the entrepreneurial ecosystems as a system and mediator in their cultural, political, and socio-economic settings in an interdisciplinary approach. This allows a clearer perspective on stakeholders' interaction, international collaboration and competition, power relations, and political influence. The various chapters in this edited volume cover the peculiarities and differences in Asia, Europe, and Eurasia with the New Silk Road (or Belt and Road Initiative) as the bridging component. The chapters, written for researchers and policy makers interested in Asian-European cooperation, also include discussions on economic systems, globalization, and regionalization, politics, cultures, and digitalization.

Die Osterreichische Wissenschaft kann mit Stolz auf eine ungewohnliche und zugleich auch wirkungsvolle Personlichkeit verweisen - auf Professor Hans H. Hinterhuber, zu dessen 65. Geburtstag ich Ihm herzlich gratuliere. Als Vorstand des Instituts fur Unternehmensfuhrung, Tourismus und Dienstleistungswirtschaft der Universitat Innsbruck bemuht sich Professor Hans H. Hinterhuber seit Jahren um eine fur das 21. Jahrhundert unbestreitbar notwendige neue Dimension des Wirtschaftens. Seine Vorstellungen eines zukunftsorientierten Managements zielen nicht nur auf den okonomischen Erfolg eines Unternehmens, sondern berucksichtigen auch dessen ethische und okologische Verantwortung sowie die Notwendigkeit der gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz. Uber Jahrhunderte hinweg haben Denker uber das Verhaltnis von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Mensch und Arbeitswelt, Humanitat und Gewinnstreben nachgedacht und geschrieben. Es ist nunmehr die grosse Aufgabe unserer Zeit, aus diesen Erkenntnissen heraus die Brucken zu den unter Erfolgszwang und Zeitdruck stehenden Unternehmen der Gegenwart zu schlagen. Professor Hans H. Hinterhuber ist ein Wissenschafter, den dieses Thema besonders beschaftigt. Ihm widmet sich nun auch diese eindrucksvolle Festschrift, mit der ich die besten Wunsche fur sein weiteres, in der internationalen Fachwelt anerkanntes Schaffen verbinde. DR. THOMAS KLESTIL Bundesprasident von Osterreich Geleitwort Zu seinem 65. Geburtstag gratuliere ich Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Hans H. Hinterhuber im Namen des Landes Tirol sehr herzlich Professor Hans Hinterhuber hat es verstanden, sich in seiner beruflichen Lautbahn als einer der profiHertesten und national wie international renommiertesten Wirtschafts Wissenschafter einen erstklassigen Ruf zu erwerben. Weit uber die Grenzen unseres Landes hinaus erfahrt er in Forschung und Lehre grosse Anerkennung und Wertschat zung."

This book calls for rethinking the meaning of sustainable development in tourism and explores how sustainability and resilience could be integrated. It argues that these concepts should be seen as interwoven processes, rather than alternative approaches. Resilience should be understood as a fundamental part of sustainable tourism thinking for destination systems. This can be achieved by calling for better governance in implementation and management. With insights from leading experts, chapters focus on resilient destinations from this governance perspective, in which tourism resilience is contextualized as an integral part of pathway creation in the process of moving towards sustainable tourism. The chapters represent a range of theoretical and empirical approaches with a wide international scope to demonstrate how governance is the key issue in sustainable tourism development. This book will appeal to a wide range of research disciplines and students whose modules focus on the relationship between tourism with respect to sustainability planning, governance, environment, and hazards and disasters.

Overtourism explores a growing phenomenon in tourism that is currently creating tensions in both urban and rural tourist destinations worldwide. This volume proposes a framework for a series of possible solutions and management strategies for dealing with overtourism and the various negative impacts that large quantities of tourists can impose. Questioning the causes of this phenomenon - such as increased prosperity and mobility, technological development, issues of security and stigma for certain parts of the world, and so on - this book supposes that better visitor management strategies and distribution of tourists can offset the negative impacts of overtourism. Individual chapters focus on a range of destinations including Venice, Barcelona and Dubrovnik, as well as UNESCO cultural and natural heritage sites, where local political actors and public authorities are not always able to deal with the situation effectively. Integrating research and practice, this book will be of great interest to upper-level students, researchers and academics in tourism, development studies, cultural studies and sustainability, as well as professionals in the field of tourism management.

Der vorliegende Sammelband moechte auf die Herausforderungen, die Chancen und auf die Erfolgspraktiken eines koordinierten Vorgehens im Aufbau von Resilienz aufmerksam machen. Der Herausgeberband bietet zudem eine Plattform fur beispielhafte Herangehensweisen und Handlungspraktiken in unterschiedlichen Systemkontexten, wobei er im Besonderen die Zusammenhange zwischen der organisationalen und der regionalen Systemebene adressiert. Anhand konzeptioneller UEberlegungen und gelungener Praxisbeispiele werden Weichenstellungen des bewussten Resilienzaufbaus auf kommunaler und nationaler Ebene skizziert.

Die Herausgeber wollen mit diesem Band ein Neu-Denken von auf Wachstum basierenden Wirtschaftsformen und damit einhergehenden Gesellschaftsformen anregen, moegliche Alternativen zum vorherrschenden Wachstumsdenken aufzeigen und neue Formen der Organisation von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft zur Diskussion stellen. Der Herausgeberband widmet sich ausgewahlten Themen und Aspekten der aktuellen Wachstums- und Transformationsdebatte. Die Beitrage legen den Schwerpunkt auf wissenschaftliche Aspekte, prasentieren empirische Ergebnisse oder fuhren die Wachstumsdiskussion anhand von konkreten Praxisbeispielen.

Anhand differenzierter Betrachtungsdimensionen des Konzeptes Verantwortung gehen die Autoren des vorliegenden Sammelbandes unterschiedlichen Auspragungsformen verantwortungsvoll agierenden Unternehmertums nach. Dabei diskutieren sie Ansatze, wie oekonomische, oekologische und soziale Handlungsweisen im Kontext des Entrepreneurship nicht nur miteinander vereinbar sind, sondern daruber hinaus Mehrwert schaffen. Somit werden Unternehmern Moeglichkeiten aufgezeigt, an sie gestellten Forderungen nach verantwortungsvollen Handlungsmustern gerecht zu werden.

Das Buch stellt eine UEbersicht zu ausgewahlten Themen der aktuellen tourismuswissenschaftlichen Forschung vor. Dabei liegt der Schwerpunkt der Beitrage auf Fragestellungen der Destinationsforschung, ausgehend vom Destinationsmanagement uber Destination Governance bis hin zu Destination Leadership und Destination Design. Alle Beitragsautoren haben am Forschungszentrum Eurac Research an tourismuswissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen gearbeitet.

Die Beitragsautoren dieses Bandes thematisieren u.a. aus der Perspektive des (Strategischen) Managements, der empirischen Zukunftsforschung, der Regionalentwicklung und Raumordnung die Herausforderungen und Moeglichkeiten einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung fur Unternehmen, Regionen und Standorte. Zukunftsfahige Strategien fur Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft koennen nur im engen Verbund zwischen Unternehmen, Standorten und Regionen sowie durch die Kooperation von Politik, Verwaltung, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft gelingen.

Das Ziel dieses Bandes ist es, aktuelle Fragestellungen im Zusammenhang mit den sich wandelnden Rahmenbedingungen im Grundungsgeschehen aufzugreifen und Potenziale sowie Spannungsfelder bei der Umsetzung einer Unternehmensgrundung unter Ruckgriff auf Crowdsourcing-Mechanismen hervorzuheben. Die Beitrage umfassen neben theoretischem Grundlagenwissen und Konzepten des Crowdsourcing neuartige Erkenntnisse aus der Crowd-Entrepreneurship-Praxis. Sie erlauben einen unmittelbaren Einblick in den realen Wandel des Grundungsgeschehens aufgrund von Crowdsourcing und zusammen mit den konzeptionellen Ansatzen eine Vertiefung des Kenntnisstandes zu Crowdsourcing mit den Unterformen Crowd Innovation, Crowdworking und Crowdinvesting.