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A Strategic Policy Scenario Analysis Framework for the Sustainable Tourist Development of Peripheral Small Island Areas

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Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation

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The focus of the present paper is on the sustainable tourist development of peripheral small island regions, setting as an example an island from the Greek territory disposing such attributes, the island of Lefkada. The proposed planning framework is supported by foresight and participatory evaluation tools, aiming at structuring and evaluating sustainable future tourist development scenarios, in order to conclude with the most challenging future options.

The current version of the paper presented at the 2nd IACuDiT Conference 2015 is a shortened version of the original one published as:

Stratigea, A. and Katsoni, V. (2015), A Strategic Policy Scenario Analysis Framework for the Sustainable Tourist Development of Peripheral Small Island Areas - The Case of Lefkada-Greece Island, European Journal of Futures Research (EJFR), 3:5, DOI: 10.1007/s40309-015-0063-z, SpringerOpen, pp. 1–17 (<http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40309-015-0063-z>)

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  1. Department of Geography and Regional Planning, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Heroon Polytechniou 9, Zographou Campus, 15780, Athens, Greece

    A. Stratigea

  2. Faculty of Management and Economics, Department of Business Administration, Division of Tourism Administration, Athens Technological Educational Institute, Milou 1, Aigaleo, 12210, Athens, Greece

    V. Katsoni

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    Vicky Katsoni

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    Anastasia Stratigea

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Stratigea, A., Katsoni, V. (2016). A Strategic Policy Scenario Analysis Framework for the Sustainable Tourist Development of Peripheral Small Island Areas. In: Katsoni, V., Stratigea, A. (eds) Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27528-4_23

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