Social entrepreneurship, hybrid organizations and B-Corps

Social Innovation, Community Based Tourism and Place Attachment. First insights from two Italian Experiences

Gianpaolo Basile, Mario Tani, Mauro Sciarelli, Maria Antonella Ferri

The European Union strategies for peripheral areas, deeply affected by the Long Slump (2008-2014) (Capello et al., 2015; Dijkstra et al., 2015), try to reverse these areas’ depopulation and marginalization. In Italy, the National Strategy for Inner Areas (NSIA) (Barca et al., 2014), launched by the Italian Minister for Economic Development in 2012, has been designed to tackle the marginal areas’ issues of depopulation and lack of services with a different place management approach to improve the quality and quantity of essential welfare. Inner Areas (IAs) cover about 60% of the Italian territory with 13,540 million inhabitants in more than 4.000 municipalities (Barca et al., 2014). …

#Authenticity #Community participation #Place attachment #Sustainable tourism