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People living in urban areas must face several challenges to improve their health and well-being. The purpose of this research is to further explore how the use of urban blue and green spaces is related to the people’s mood feelings when visiting these spaces. A cross-sectional study is carried out with an adult sample population in Albania with people between 16-74 years old by an online survey. Respondents have been asked to complete the survey via the platform Google Form, from April to May 2021. The questionnaire included questions related to socio-economic characteristics, urban green and blue spaces (GBS), and self-reported feelings information. After the validation and cleaning process, a representative sample (95% level of confidence) of 530 respondents was obtained. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze indicators such as (1) sociodemographic characteristics; (2) frequency of visits in GBS in the last 4 weeks; (3) time spending during the visit; (4) activities carried out during the visit; (5) type of accompaniment; (6) the reason for not visiting GBS and the quality of GBS. The SPSS software platform was used for the statistical analyses. The frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation calculations were used to calculate data from the sample. The Chi-square test was used to examine the relationship between the frequency of visits in blue space and the people’ mood. The study shows a significant relationship among the frequency of visits of blue and green spaces and positive mood feelings.

The Mata do Pau-Ferro State Park Conservation Unit (UC) is located in the municipality of Areia, state of Paraíba, Northeastern Brazil. UC does not have a detailed trail system. In light of the above, this article drew up a mapping of the most used trails by tourists who frequent the Park. The methodological procedures consisted of recording the coordinates of the trails using a Global Positioning System – GPS and photographic captures of the main attractions along the paths. Also, using ArcGIS 10.2 software, the environmental variables slope, terrain conditions, vegetation cover and drainage were added to obtain the difficulty classes of the trails, using as references Silva (2016), Silva, Lima & Panchaud (2016) and Silva & Palhares (2020). As a result, 4 trails, 2 integrations and 4 main points that function as tourist attractions were mapped. Regarding the difficulty classes of the trails, 67.41% of the trail system was classified as “easy”, a context that shows the potential to receive a diverse public of visitors.

The Historic Center of Malaga has been undergoing a series of profound architectural, functional and social transformations in recent decades. These processes have not yet been systematically analysed, despite the fact that the study of urban processes such as gentrification is a very present field of academic research. This work aims to determine if the Historic Center of Malaga has presented a gentrification process from the last third of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The results were obtained and analysed on the basis of a selection of demographic, socio-economic and property indicators that facilitate the identification of this urban phenomenon. The results obtained indicate the existence of an advanced gentrification process. This study establishes the basis for a broader avenue of investigation of this Malaga urban space.

The Covid-19 pandemic has transformed the world in general, and tourism in particular, and tourism destinations have made great efforts to integrate risk management. In this new framework, cooperation has proved essential to tackle the virus. Therefore, the main objective of the research is to identify the main measures carried out by and for the tourism sector to address Covid-19 and to check whether they have been elaborated as a possible certification. The research methodology was based, firstly, on a review of the existing literature on the concepts of tourism governance, cooperation and collaboration, tourism policy and standardization. Moreover, the measures carried out at national level for the tourism sector have been selected and analyzed, and the bodies involved in the development of these measures have been analyzed. The result achieved is that the measures carried out at national level for the tourism sector have proven to be effective, as they have resulted in a standard for Spanish tourist destinations, and their implementation is being promoted at international level.

This article aims to verify the resilience of urban tourism in the face of the COVID-19 crisis, and identify its main features, taking the city of Malaga as a reference. The methodological approach provided by the economic analysis will be used to analyze the dynamics that have been registered in the accommodation market, both conventional (hotels) and short-term rental tourist housing. The data refer to demand, supply and price indicators for the period between September 2018 and the same month in 2021. The results of the analysis show clear signs of recovery in the tourism market as of spring 2021. More specifically, the role that residents of Spain acquire in the demand for hotel accommodation is confirmed. Likewise, in the peer-to-peer market, it is confirmed that, months after the lifting of mobility restrictions, the activity levels reached before the pandemic were exceeded. On this basis, it seems pertinent to reopen and rethink the debate on the carrying capacity of cities and the advisability of regulating the tourist accommodation market.

One of the first tasks to tackle any scientific publication is to review all the scientific literature on the subject. This article presents a methodology that allows analyzing scientific trends in a discipline through a bibliometric analysis. Specifically, the field of Economic Geography is used as a case study, Web of Science (WoS) has been chosen as the database for this analysis. With a set of 4,307 publications, various bibliometric indicators are analyzed, such as the evolution of scientific production, the agents involved (countries and organizations) and topics addressed, in order to see the evolution of the scientific output and the thematic specializations of Economic Geography from 1920 to the present.

This paper is an update of the existing nuclear heritage in southern Spain. Old uranium mines, nuclear fuel factories, nuclear waste warehouses or places affected by nuclear accidents have a set of possibilities beyond their relation to uranium activity. The state of existing nuclear facilities in southern Spain, which form a heritage complex that deserves institutional attention and may have opportunities for its transformation into a resource for educational or tourist use, is analyzed and valued. From the detailed analysis of each element to the object of study, the diagram of strengths and weaknesses of the whole has been established. This suffers a certain stigmatization that should be reverted in a series of actions conducive in a sustainable way to comprehensiveness in their regional environments.

For a long time, Man has been looking for the exploitation of natural resources for daily purposes. Thus, the current scientific and technological development has facilitated and given him real opportunities for the overexploitation of these resources in general and the plant cover in particular. In order to show this exploitation, we want, in this article, to study the evolution of the vegetation cover of the forest of Ait Daoud or Ali, located in the Central High Atlas on an area of 30 860 ha, between 1972, 1999 and 2020, based on remote sensing and GIS tool. Regarding the methodology of work, the multi-chronic study of the dynamics of the vegetation cover of the study area, is based on the spatio-temporal analysis and processing of satellite images by remote sensing space. Indeed, in this paper we have opted for this approach which is based on the use of data from LandSat satellite images of three types; these are the images of type MSS, ETM and Oli, for three dates 1972, 1999 and 2020 (period of 48 years) to identify the spatial differences of the vegetation cover between the three selected dates. Indeed, the study of the dynamics of the vegetation cover of the forest of Ait Daoud or Ali between 1972, 1999 and 2020, showed a very important spatio-temporal variation, linked essentially to several factors (natural and human). The comparison of the results of the classification of Landsat images, showed a decline and a significant degradation of vegetation cover between 1972 and 1999 of 12% of the total area of the study area. This degradation is justified by the intervention of several factors, including climatic conditions and dry periods that Morocco has experienced in this period. For the second period (1999-2020), the treatment showed an increase in vegetation cover of about 10%. In this study, we have highlighted the impact of natural factors and especially anthropic actions on the dynamics of the forest of Ait Daoud or Ali located in the Central High Atlas, based on the use of geospatial techniques that have allowed us to have very precise information on the spatio-temporal dynamics of plant cover.

The innovation capacity of companies is related to the reconfiguration or modification of their competitive advantages. It is best explained from the perspective of dynamic capabilities (organisational abilities to manage their resources in changing environments), a field that requires further practical study. Methodologically, a model is provided. The model identifies the most important variables and indicators in order to facilitate managers strategy. That model allows them to explain how those resources and capacities taking part in the development of new processes, products or services influence the reconfiguration of competitive advantage. To support the utility of the model, an exemplary case carried out within the technology sector based on a public and a private company. As conclusions and results, it can be stated that this empirical study supports the scientific literature, verifying how specific innovation activities have to do with the dynamic capabilities from which the company’s sustainable competitive advantage is determined. Regarding that, culture and collaborative behavior play a fundamental role, which along with technology, are evident in the case of the private sector compared to the public one.

Critical analysis of public policies on environmental conservation, management, and tourism development in the protected natural areas of Ecuador to detect their dysfunctions, contradictions, and problems of applicability. A predominantly exploratory research methodology with a descriptive-analytical approach is used when studying and systematizing the different regulations, actions and guidelines existing and implemented by international and national organizations with competencies in environmental conservation and sustainable development. These are systematized and analyzed through the main documents of interest that include principles, strategic guidelines, and specific rules of application.Through primary and secondary sources, and internal documentation of various Administrations we have identified the most visible effects and impacts that these policies have generated in the protection and/or valorization of the natural heritage, as well as in the tourist development compatible with the conservation of these spaces, the generation of complementary income and economic diversification for local communities. We concluded that Ecuadorian regulations on the conservation of protected areas present notable points of collision and lack of coherence or coordination with tourism policies. This is the consequence of two main factors: the lack of a broad strategic vision and comprehensive territorial planning of these territories as sustainable tourist destinations and the lack of a framework for management, planning and collaborative planning between the different local agencies and agents that affect these spaces.