territorial co-operation with third countries. In this framework, the EU co-finances (through the European Regional Development …

development has significantly increased, owing to the capacity of tourism to create income and employment and to generate … synergies within other economic sectors. Tourism is worldwide considered to have a key role in the economic development of …. However, tourism development across regions is highly unbalanced. This is attributed particularly to the highly insular and …

important and critical role to the field of local development. For this motive, in recent years, economic literature has focused … its attention at the regional and local level. The liberalization of transport and the development of the information … productive Basque and Sicilian territorial reality and their impact on the local economy is crucial for the development of the …