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Local entrepreneurship through a multistakeholders' tourism living lab in the post‐violence/peripheral era in the Basque Country
Author(s) -
Calzada Igor
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
regional science policy and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.342
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1757-7802
DOI - 10.1111/rsp3.12130
Subject(s) - tourism , entrepreneurship , transformative learning , citizen journalism , democracy , social capital , political science , local community , economic growth , economic geography , economy , development economics , sociology , geography , economics , politics , law , pedagogy
This paper examines a transformative tourism case study driven by local entrepreneurship in the coastal and post‐violence/peripheral village of Zumaia, in the Basque Country (Spain). This paper aims at addressing an innovative methodology called “Tourism Living Lab through Multistakeholders' Penta Helix framework” in response to a globalized trend of increasing visitors. The result shows democratic tourism policy‐making practices at the local level, including: (i) a participatory strategic formulation process; (ii) by fostering a local entrepreneurial ecosystem to overcome “tourism‐phobia”; (iii) while renewing local identity; and (iv) through bridging social capital for a new post‐violence era in the Basque Country.