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The research has been developed within So.Net.TO (Social Network for Tourism Operators) project, in partnership with the Technological Institute of Epirus (lead University), the Department of Humanities of the University of Foggia and the Department of Classical Philology and Philosophical Sciences of the University of Salento. The objective of the research was to identify and define innovative services capable of promoting the development of the territories involved through the adoption of collaborative models, with the help of ICT for creating communities of practice of tour operators, professionally capable of promoting sustainable local development processes. The implications appear to be linked to the possibility to raising the employment rate especially among young people in tourism segments (the high end) which appear to be in great expansion, compared to a generalized crisis of the tourism sector, consequent the more general and global economic and financial crisis that is facing the entire planet. The originality of the project is linked to the idea of investing in initial and continuing training of tour operators as a fundamental variable to capitalize on the natural and human resources of Apulia. It is to think about a model operator training that combines cultural awareness and entrepreneurship through the development of management skills able to qualify the professionalism of all those operators engaged in different ways in the tourism sector.
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European paper of sustainable tourism is a declaration of guide lines and principles turned into tourism and organization of touristic places respectful of environmental and cultural resources. These are actions that can turn into education of the tourists for the comprehension of the traditions of people living in visited places and for the attention of local the environment. Tourism firms, operating in the area of Paper, have to be reference to principles of sustainable tourism.
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Data is: Pugliapromozione, Regional Agency for tourism (2012), Analysis of the touristic market in Apulia. Pugliapromozione is the body through which Apulia works for the touristic field and realized studies and research, such as this last one, commissioned to Ciset (International Centre on Touristic Economic Studies) and to University of Venezia, Ca’ Foscari.
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A similar research made in relation to agribusiness, of which results are published in Formation and work. Focus group as research instrument by I. Loiodice and in Occupational frames and formative needs of agro-industrial companies of Capitanata area by Franco Angeli, (edited by) Crocetta (2009).
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Loiodice, I. (2015). Development of Tourism in Apulia Region and Training of Tour Operators. In: Katsoni, V. (eds) Cultural Tourism in a Digital Era. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15859-4_32
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