Examinando por Autor "Alzua Sorzabal, Aurkene"

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    Calculating the carbon footprint of urban tourism destinations: a methodological approach based on tourists’ spatiotemporal behaviour
    (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2025-03) Pousa Unanue, Aitziber; Alzua Sorzabal, Aurkene; Álvarez Fernández, Roberto; Delgado Jiménez, Alexandra; Femenia Serra, Francisco
    This study investigates the influence of urban tourists’ behaviour on the environmental performance of a destination, particularly in terms of carbon emissions. Tourist-related emissions are shaped by their choices and behaviours, impacting the overall carbon footprint of the locations they visit. To assess this impact, we introduce a methodology for quantifying greenhouse gas emissions linked to tourists’ energy consumption. This approach considers key tourism components—activities, accommodation, and transportation—analysing their roles in emissions across a trip’s temporal and spatial dimensions. By integrating tourists’ spatiotemporal behaviour with emissions data, our framework offers insights that can support local climate-responsive urban and tourism policies. We empirically apply the proposed model to the destination of Donostia/San Sebastián (Spain), where the primary travel sequences of visitors are analysed. We utilise cartographic techniques to map the environmental footprints of different tourist profiles, such as cultural and nature tourists. The findings indicate that visitors primarily motivated by nature and outdoor recreation constitute the segment with the highest greenhouse gas emissions (with a minimum footprint of 30.69 kg CO2-equivalent per trip), followed by cultural tourists, and finally, other categories of visitors. The results highlight the practical applications of the proposed model for sustainable tourism management, providing valuable guidance for urban planners and policymakers in mitigating the environmental impacts of tourism
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    Connections between a tourist destination, the digital ecosystem, and ICT actors
    (Springer Nature, 2024) Alzua Sorzabal, Aurkene; Herasimovich, Volha; Guereño-Omil, Basagaitz; Thiel-Ellul, Daniela
    The tourism sector and tourist destinations are undergoing a digital transition in order to improve their resilience and competitiveness. The way in which tourist destinations address this digital transition differs, as some incorporate more technology in their ecosystem than others, giving rise to the emergence of different types of digital tourism networks. This study seeks to determine the different ways in which a tourist destination connects with a digital ecosystem, specifically focusing on the connections with ICT actors. It is based on the theoretical framework of tourism as an ecosystem. Using web crawling, network data have been compiled on 670 tourism actors and more than 36,000 websites to which they are connected through hyperlinks. The most frequently linked entities of the discovered digital ecosystem have been identified and classified (n = 447), distinguishing between 13 types of ICT actors. The results show how the online destination network has been incorporated into the digital ecosystem. The study reveals that the configuration of the digital ecosystem surrounding a tourist destination is characterised by the different levels of importance for the network of destination actors in which the ICT actors play a central role.
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    Context management platform for tourism applications
    (MDPI AG, 2013) Buján Carballal, David; Martín, David; Torices, Ortzi; López de Ipiña González de Artaza, Diego; Lamsfus Franco, Carlos; Abaitua, Joseba; Alzua Sorzabal, Aurkene
    The notion of context has been widely studied and there are several authors that have proposed different definitions of context. However, context has not been widely studied in the framework of human mobility and the notion of context has been imported directly from other computing fields without specifically addressing the tourism domain requirements. In order to store and manage context information a context data model and a context management platform are needed. Ontologies have been widely used in context modelling, but many of them are designed to be applied in general ubiquitous computing environments, do not contain specific concepts related to the tourism domain or some approaches do not contain enough concepts to represent context information related to the visitor on the move. That is why we propose a new approach to provide a better solution to model context data in tourism environments, adding more value to our solution reusing data about tourist resources from an Open Data repository and publishing it as Linked Data. We also propose the architecture for a context information management platform based on this context data model
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    Innovación en el sector turístico vasco
    (Instituto Geográfico Vasco "Andrés de Urdaneta" (INGEBA), 2006) Alzua Sorzabal, Aurkene; Abad Galzacorta, Marina
    El presente artículo resume el trabajo realizado con el fin de identificar las claves estratégicas del sector turístico vasco con el propósito de incrementar su competitividad y, en definitiva, afrontar con éxito la segunda gran transformación de la socioeconomía vasca. El objetivo principal de este estudio era conocer el estado actual de las organizaciones e instituciones turísticas vascas en lo que a innovación se refiere con el fin de diseñar las áreas y líneas priorizadas que contribuyan al desarrollo de una mayor competitividad del sector en el futuro. Por esta razón, no sólo se ha llevado a cabo un diagnóstico de la Innovación en el sector turístico de Euskadi sino que también se hace especial hincapié en las necesidades destacadas por las instituciones y organizaciones implicadas.
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    Methodological framework of the Spanish Smart Tourism Destinations model
    (Springer Nature, 2024) Alzua Sorzabal, Aurkene
    The Spanish Smart Tourism Destinations model (DTI Model) has established itself as an indisputable benchmark in terms of public tourism policies, providing a strategic management tool that integrates the main challenges facing tourism destinations and offers guidelines for dealing with them. It is a model developed from the smart city concept, shifting its focus from the resident to the visitor, incorporating elements that go beyond the technological application, such as governance, technology, innovation, or accessibility. The chapter includes the work carried out over the years in terms of standardization, within the CTN178 Technical Standardization Committee, led by SEGITTUR, and which has allowed the publication of a good number of standards related to the Spanish Smart Tourism Destinations model. SEGITTUR’s DTI diagnostic methodology consists of 5 pillars (Governance, Innovation, Technology, Sustainability, and Accessibility), which represent the areas on which destinations must work and improve; these pillars are developed throughout 16 areas of action, explicitated into 97 requirements and 261 indicators, which allow the level of performance of the destination to be measured homogeneously and compared with other destinations. Finally, the chapter includes a mention of the relationship between the Spanish Smart Tourism Destinations model and the SDGs and presents the level of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at both national and international level.
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    Online networking behaviour of tourism stakeholders in a multi-destination region: a hyperlink network analysis
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2024-03) Herasimovich, Volha; Alzua Sorzabal, Aurkene; Guereño-Omil, Basagaitz
    Inter-organisational networking, essential for enhancing tourist destinations' performance, is often underutilised, resulting in low-density networks. To develop precise strategies for managing connectivity, it is crucial to examine stakeholders' networking behaviours – how they connect to a destination network and contribute to its structural formations within and beyond their sectors and geographic locations. This study looks at online networking forms that are qualitatively different from interpersonal contacts among organisational members. Specifically, it focuses on hyperlink networking, given its significance for the visibility of organisations and the overall destination and the credibility of tourism websites. Using social network analysis, this research identifies diverse online networking behaviours related to involvement in networking activities, link-placing and link-receiving, connections with similar and dissimilar actors, and community formation of tourism stakeholders across different sectors within a multi-destination region. The network is characterised by assembling behaviour, where many actors are connected to the network by other organisations rather than by their own linking activity. The study confirms organisations’ low involvement in networking and significant imbalances in their activities. It highlights how imbalances arise in the conjuncture of various sectors, each having a distinct role in uneven link allocation. Destination management organisations are key connectors and mediators but struggle to establish high-density within-sector connections. Public domain-related sectors are generally more active in networking than private ones. Intersectoral connections, rather than within-sector connections, are the major source of links for sectors. Stakeholders tend to connect more with actors from the same geographic area