| Abstract |
It is inevitable that the development of tourism induces changes on the overall character of a destination, meaning that there are significant changes and impacts in the social, economic local activity and in the environment as well. On the occasion of the recent stock exchange crisis and the deliberation on the end of capitalism, it would be wise to approach historically the basic models of economic, and therefore, tourist development of the 20th century and their impact on the creation of contemporary tourist products, which is now based on the differentiation and flexibility of services and businesses, having at the same time a strongly sentimental nature. The object of our project is to stress the importance of new infrastructures and innovation for the contemporary tourism economy. The author of this paper believes that the basic problem underneath these scientific approaches is that the conceptual contexts of qualitative and quantitative basic elements have to be acknowledged and measured as well. As far as concerns the qualitative analysis there is no denying that qualitative aspects are mostly not included in the existing models of destination management. In this paper, under the hypotheses of the transformation of infrastructures, the use of Knowledge Management Techniques and the Schumpeters pattern of innovation and evolution, we conclude that differentiations and inequalities are emerging, among destinations. In order to measure these differentiations, it would be appropriate to use the indicators, developed in the laboratory of Environmental Planning of the University of Aegean, by Harris Coccosis. |