Regional implications of the Italian inner areas strategy

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ID10407232
AutoresDante Di Matteo (0000-0002-4799-7755, e-Campus University, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume59
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2025-01-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRegional Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0034-3404 • E-ISSN: 1360-0591
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00343404.2024.2441228
OpenAlexW4406930674
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas51

The National Strategy for the Inner Areas is an Italian place-based policy aimed at revitalising the economic and social vibrancy of lagging municipalities facing remoteness by leveraging on tourism as a key instrument for local development. This paper evaluates the policy effects on tourism over the period 2014–22 through a difference-in-difference approach at the municipal level. Overall nights of stay have been positively affected by 6% since the subsides’ disbursement begun. Results are largely driven by geographical heterogeneity and marked by direct expenditure mechanisms, with prevailing effects on foreign tourism in northern regions and predominant effects on domestic tourism in the Mezzogiorno

Economic geography · Geography · Political science · Regional development · Regional science · Regional studies · Regional Development and Policy · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Regional resilience and development