scholarly journals Reflecting on the evolution of tourist and recreational development in the FinnishRussian borderland

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-101
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Stepanova
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Regional Growth ◽  
Analytical Data ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Regional Strategies ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
Geographical Position ◽  
Historical Heritage

This article examines the development of tourism and recreation in the Finnish-Russian borderland as a new promising area of regional growth. The unique natural, historical, and cultural resources, and a favourable economic and geographical position are basic prerequisites for the development of tourism in the region. Historically, the barriers of state borders hampered the development of tourism; and tourism was seen as an activity bringing no economic benefits to regions since most Soviet citizens travelled as beneficiaries of social programs. As a result of the socioeconomic transformations in the Russian Federation, the openness of border regions under the influence of integration process taking place in the world community facilitates tourist mobility between neighbouring countries. The article describes an approach that considers the border regions of Northwest Russia as attractive destinations for tourists from neighboring countries. The author presents an approach that interprets cross-border tourist routes as an instrument for the conservation, reproduction, and promotion of natural, cultural, and historical heritage and as a means to boost business activities in border regions. The author analyses statistical and analytical data and does the content analysis of regional strategies for tourism and socioeconomic development. The article explores the practices of tourism and recreation development in a historical perspective and examines the effect of barrier and contact functions of state borders on tourism. The article identifies factors hindering tourism development and suggests measures to stimulate tourism as a regional economic activity.

scholarly journals Interaction in transportation as the basis for implementation of intergovernmental cooperation

2018 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. 01014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Popova ◽  
Marina Kvint ◽  
Aleksei Dementyev
Keyword(s):  
Western Siberia ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
Railway Transport ◽  
Prospective Development ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Intergovernmental Cooperation ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
Geographical Position ◽  
Economic Union ◽  
Regions Of Russia

The purpose of this paper is to define the role and place of the transportation component of the adjacent subjects of two countries in their economic potential for implementation of intergovernmental cooperation. The role and place of the transportation component in estimation of the benefits of the transportation and geographical position becomes evident only when the population, resources and economy of the border regions are jointly analyzed. The analysis of such parameters of the border regions of Russia (Western Siberia) and Kazakhstan performed by means of comparison and association of their economic and transportation potentials, showed that territorial production complexes in them have been developed, and the prospective development within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union will be determined by the joint use of the benefits of the transportation and geographic position implemented with participation of railway transport.

Research Sustainable Protection and Development of Industrial Heritage - For Example Laolongkou Distillery

2012 ◽  
Vol 209-211 ◽  
pp. 103-107
Author(s):  
Ou Hao ◽  
Zhan Yu Xie ◽  
Jing Ha
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Culture Characteristics ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Sustainable Protection

Through the design of the Laolongkou distillery Sustainable protection research, The author get the method about latent economic benefits in excavation culture, provides a new road for other local historical heritage constructive protection development. Firstly, the Distillery heritage cannot be changed and want to bring economic value. This creates a contradiction, and how to make living environment and Distillery production environment not contradiction. The authors adopt a "platform" idea. Secondly, sustainable development of distillery culture characteristics. There are a lot of cultural relics and intangible cultural heritage, use these elements improve tourism environment level and quality, show distillery industrial heritage characteristic, obtain industrial tourism economic and cultural benefits.

scholarly journals Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Border Region Development: West Southeast Maluku, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-80
Author(s):  
Nuzula Anggeraini ◽  
Yeremias T. Keban ◽  
Jun Matsunami
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Local Level ◽  
State Level ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
International Borders ◽  
Border Areas ◽  
Depth Interviews

Border regions are geographically presented with potential economic benefits. However, some of these areas have not been able to take advantage of their strategic geographic locality. This is also the case for border areas in Indonesia. There is a spectrum of perceptions by stakeholders on how border regions, particularly international borders, should be developed. This study sought to capture the perspectives of Indonesian stakeholders on border region development, and the extent of influence such perspectives have in the policy of border areas development with a case study in West Southeast Maluku The research was conducted using qualitative method with in-depth interviews as the primary collecting data technique. The results show that despite perceptions of stakeholders who view West Southeast Maluku as an area of insecurity, they also see the potential of the area to be developed as a gateway, area of opportunity, zone of contacts and zone of cooperation. However, the current policies and strategies of the development of border areas do not exemplify such perceptions, and the formulation of such policies is likely to be dominated by state-level stakeholders, despite the fact that local level stakeholders have a more comprehensive understanding of the needs of their areas.

scholarly journals Festival tourism and socioeconomic development: case of Kwahu traditional areas of Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Doe ◽  
Alexander Preko ◽  
Hellen Akroful ◽  
Effie Kwaaba Okai-Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The People ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Traditional Area

PurposeThe place of festivals in national economic development has received increased attention from researchers globally. However, there appears to be a relatively small and disparate literature on the subject especially within the Ghanaian context. The study seeks to contribute to the global recognition of festivals as developmental tools and thus presents the effects of festival tourism on socio-economic capital of the people of Kwahu traditional area (Ghana) and how festival tourism in the region engenders economic benefits to businesses and the community.Design/methodology/approachThis study is guided by the social development theory. A quantitative cross-sectional survey utilizing convenience technique was used to gather data from a sample of 398 residents of the selected towns and the regression model was used to analyse the data.FindingsThe findings revealed festival tourism to have a positive effect on community cohesiveness but not statistically significant. Further, the festival brought economic gains but had negative social effects on development of the selected towns.Research limitations/implicationsThis research is destination-specific. The application of the findings to other festivals would demand a bigger sample size for generalisation to be made.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that for growth of festival tourism in Ghana to be actualised, the Ghana Tourism Authority needs to ensure festivals do not erode entrenched traditional values and negate efforts at developing social structures and systems by putting measures to reduce the negative effect of commoditisation of festivals on the communities' cultural authenticity. Law enforcement agents should also be massively beefed up to curtail crime and social vices.Originality/valueThe study's findings extend earlier studies to extend the scope in festival tourism literature. This study found that festival tourism has effect on both community cohesion and economic development of the people of Kwahu traditional area.

Fast-Growing Trees Planting and its Relationship with the Grain Production in Hebei Province

2013 ◽  
Vol 316-317 ◽  
pp. 291-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tie Chou Shi ◽  
Xiao Hong Xu
Keyword(s):  
Research Area ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Hebei Province ◽  
Grain Production ◽  
Construction Engineering ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Geographical Position ◽  
Suitable Area ◽  
Sown Area

The fast-growing and high-yielding timber plantation base construction engineering initiated in 2002, and it’s the sixth largest forest project in China. Did the project have influence to the grain production in the past ten years? And how much the influence is? Based on this problem, the study selects Hebei province as the research area, which is around Beijing-Tianjin, and the geographical position is particularly important. It analyzes Hebei’s fast-growing trees planting area, grain sown area and yield from land using angle. Research shows that fast-growing trees planting’s time and space difference is very wide in Hebei and each city, but its influence is very small for the grain sown area, and has no effect on total grain yield. Because Fast-growing trees can improve ecological environment and bring huge economic benefits, it can continue to be planted in Hebei’s suitable area in the future. The fast-growing trees planting should occupy less cultivated land as far as possible, and reduce the influence to grain production.

scholarly journals The Burden of Visceral Leishmaniasis in India: Challenges in Using Remote Sensing and GIS to Understand and Control

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gouri Sankar Bhunia ◽  
Shreekant Kesari ◽  
Nandini Chatterjee ◽  
Vijay Kumar ◽  
Pradeep Das
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Visceral Leishmaniasis ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Gis Applications ◽  
Populations At Risk ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
Gis And Rs ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Control

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) continues to constitute immense public health problems and be an obstacle to socioeconomic development in India. The scrutiny of this disease remains a necessary step in its control, eradication, and prevention. Space technologies proffer new opportunities for rapid appraisal of endemic areas, stipulation of trustworthy estimation of populations at risk, prediction of disease distributions in areas that lack baseline data and are difficult to access, and guiding intervention strategies. Here, we focus on the epidemiology and control of VL in India and review remote sensing (RS) and GIS applications to date. For the original evidenced report, a search was done on electronic databases of PubMed, ERMSS, EQUEST and from online Internet searching to come across the recent research problems. We discuss the previous work conducted in this field, outlined potential new applications of GIS and RS techniques, and utilization of emerging satellite information, as they hold a promising area to further enhance VL risk mapping and prediction. Finally, we concluded with a discussion of strategies to overcome some of the perspective challenges of GIS and RS applications for VL control, so that supplementary and continued progress can be made to control this disease in India and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Beyond the EU Structural Funds’ Absorption Rate: How Do Regions Really Perform?

Economies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Eirini Aivazidou ◽  
Giovanni Cunico ◽  
Edoardo Mollona
Keyword(s):  
Absorption Rate ◽  
Regional Growth ◽  
Statistical Error ◽  
Policy Cycle ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Administrative Capacity ◽  
Regional Strategies ◽  
Absorption Performance ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
The Eu

Although the EU structural funds aim to alleviate disparities through supporting regional development, their impact on local economies and societies is considered as uneven. As existing studies explore the absorption rate of the EU share of contribution as a point-in-time indicator at the end of the policy cycle, evidence about regional co-finance and the factors dynamically affecting absorption performance is lacking. To that end, this paper aims to provide a new longitudinal investigation of the absorption time series and develop an original indicator, supported by a statistical error analysis, for offering a transparent view of the total funds’ absorption. The analysis highlights that undesired regional strategies due to low administrative capacity may increase the absorption rate, though without supporting regional growth. The proposed approach could further facilitate the equitable allocation of political accountability regarding the structural funds’ absorption to the EU and the regions. Overall, it is anticipated that this research will support the EU in monitoring actual regional performance for prompting local managing authorities to improve their administrative capacity.

scholarly journals Touristic valorization of cultural and historical heritage of the central core of Sarajevo based on Hilary du Cros method

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Alma Pobric ◽  
Selma Sljivo ◽  
Naida Mulaosmanovic
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
City Area ◽  
Religious Buildings ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
The City ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
Rich History ◽  
Cultural Features

Cultural and historical heritage, as well as rich history, very often represents a very important segment of tourism development in a certain city. Tourists are very inclined to the old town centers, which generally have many attractions of this type, and usually they are located in the immediate vicinity. Baščaršija is also an example of the old city area, which earlier was intended for commercial purposes only. Nowadays Baščaršija represents the most attractive part of the City of Sarajevo and its cultural features are a real attraction for many tourists. This paper focuses on the evaluation of the cultural - historical heritage within Baščaršija applying the method of tourist valorization of cultural resources by Hilary du Cross. Baščaršija is home to various religions, peoples and rich legacies from different historical periods that shaped its present-day appearance. The cultural heritage of Baščaršija includes numerous museums, religious buildings, fountains, interesting streets, as well as numerous authentic craft shops.

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