This review article traces the development of cultural tourism as a field of research over the
past decade, identifying major trends and research areas. Cultural tourism has recently …

Introduction Elite education has long been associated with a leisurely lifestyle, from ancient
Greece, through Confucian China to post-war France (Bourdieu et al., 1994). In Pascalian …

Change has been universally acknowledged as the perpetual theme for routine
organizational life. As cultural tourism, a major element of global tourism consumption …

Historic cultural institutions are known to predict local inequality, but the moderating effect of
modern cultural attitudes has not been thoroughly elucidated. Our hypothesis is that local …

This study investigates the evolution of performance measures in Italian state museums,
alongside the evolution of their role from preservation institutes to entertainment sites …

The aim of this paper is to bring new contributions to the analysis of efficiency and
productivity in the performing arts. Firstly, we consider how the behaviour of a performing …

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explain the determinants of the degree of visit
satisfaction to the Guanajuato Mummies Museum. The study contributes to the literature …

The paper investigates the efficiency of 103 Italian provinces and some contextual factors
that influence the competitiveness of a territorial tourist destination, defined as an ensemble …

The diffusion of digital information and communication technologies (ICT) in public services
is generally assumed to improve their performance. However, the impact of ICT on the …

Economists have paid an increasing attention to the estimation of efficiency in the public
sector. Archives constitute an exception notwithstanding their cultural and historical …