Boutique festivals and tourism innovation: The case of Sicily

Journal title RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA
Author/s Arturo Di Bella
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/1
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 75-94 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rgioa1-2023oa15438
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The format of boutique festival is promoted by public and private actors as a model of creative, sustainable and highly interactive event, which favors practices and processes of tourism innovation, especially useful to respond to the challenges related to the emergence of the new urban tourism, as well as to the recovery of tourism in post Covid-19 context. By analyzing the discourses and the imaginaries accompanying the incorporation of the global model in the policies and practices of boutique festivals in Sicily, the aim of the paper is to reflect on their potentials and limits in terms of creative and sustainable tourism innovation and regeneration in the post Covid-19 era.

Keywords: ; cultural events, post Covid-19 tourism, Sicily

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Arturo Di Bella, Boutique festival e innovazione turistica: il caso della Sicilia in "RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA" 1/2023, pp 75-94, DOI: 10.3280/rgioa1-2023oa15438