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on Tourism Economics |
| By: | Francesca Checchinato (Venice School of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice); Paolo Cunico (Venice School of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice); Vladi Finotto (Venice School of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) |
| Abstract: | This study examines how restaurants convey authenticity in destinations not renowned for their gastronomy, with a particular focus on the impact of overtourism. Drawing on a supply-side perspective, it examines restaurateurs’ strategies for conveying authenticity through a thematic analysis of 21 in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted in Venice, an overtourism hotspot, and the nearby Euganean Hills†, a more tranquil, locally visited destination. Using thematic analysis and set theory, the study identifies three intersecting components of authenticity—commitment, community, and territory—that collectively characterise restaurateurs’ approaches. The findings reveal the importance of workers’ dedication to family traditions, engagement with local communities, and connection to the territory in shaping authentic gastronomic experiences. This research advances the destination marketing literature by elucidating the managerial and social dynamics behind authentic food offerings. It provides practical insights for restaurateurs seeking to maintain authenticity amid varying tourist flows and highlights investment directions for policymakers to mitigate overtourism. |
| Keywords: | Food Tourism, Culinary Authenticity, Overtourism, Cultural Diversity, Restaurant Strategy, Thematic analysis. |
| Date: | 2025–10 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:vnm:wpdman:228 |
| By: | Lorde, Troy; Pilgrim, George; Hippolyte, Antonius |
| Abstract: | This article explores the relationship between tourism development and the colonial legal inheritance of Barbados. While tourism is routinely framed as the island’s post-independence success story, the statutory regime that governs it tells a more complicated tale. Drawing on a critical legal-historical approach, the paper traces how legislation—from the Hotel Aids Act of 1956 to the Tourism Development Act of 2002 and the long-standing Land Acquisition Act—preserves the priorities and hierarchies of the plantation economy. These laws extend advantages to foreign investors, facilitate land dispossession and entrench patterns of dependency that echo earlier forms of colonial rule. By situating these statutes within broader debates on the “coloniality of law”, the analysis shows how political independence left intact a legal imagination more attuned to property, order and external capital than to equity or community empowerment. The article concludes by outlining elements of a decolonial legal strategy that centres collective rights, environmental stewardship and democratic participation in the design of future tourism policy. |
| Keywords: | coloniality of law; tourism development; savings law clause; plantation economy; legal continuity |
| JEL: | K10 N96 Z13 |
| Date: | 2025–12–17 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:127400 |