Network integrated relational tourism seems a new way to generate touristic flows with great growth perspective, though remaining a niche. This type of tourism expands and diversifies the present touristic demand aquiring a global dimension, since it refers to networks that know no boundaries. It is created primarily from the virtual sphere and does not need large capital investments, but ideas - which on one hand may be easy to imitate since they are inexpensive and not particularly risky, on the other hand these ideas cannot be reproduced, since they are related to the cultural and environmental context where they are created. As a matter of fact, in tourism, innovation does not produce a new tangible product, but a new activity that changes the method of resource fruition and the service offered.
From the demand point of view, network integrated relational tourism can be defined as affordable. In fact, the destination welcomes tourists in the community without large infrastructures, in a friendly manner, so that environmental costs supported by the local community can be minimized. This peculiarity is certainly a positive factor for the territory since tourism as started off can become a dynamic economic sector and as such does not change in time in terms of profitability for the entire economic system. From a social standpoint, a negative aspect would be the strengthening of the elite, especially in developing countries. The elite that belong to the network, by managing resources and network tourism, tend to keep away the remaining part of the local population.
With a growing tendency towards free independent travellers, who create their itenararies as they move informally around the country, their dependency on transport becomes more complex and subtle. When a tourist sees innovation as a new tourist product and finds it useful also for the uniqueness and irreproducibility, he or she would be willing to pay a higher price.
From the demand point of view, network integrated relational tourism can be defined as affordable. In fact, the destination welcomes tourists in the community without large infrastructures, in a friendly manner, so that environmental costs supported by the local community can be minimized. This peculiarity is certainly a positive factor for the territory since tourism as started off can become a dynamic economic sector and as such does not change in time in terms of profitability for the entire economic system. From a social standpoint, a negative aspect would be the strengthening of the elite, especially in developing countries. The elite that belong to the network, by managing resources and network tourism, tend to keep away the remaining part of the local population.
With a growing tendency towards free independent travellers, who create their itenararies as they move informally around the country, their dependency on transport becomes more complex and subtle. When a tourist sees innovation as a new tourist product and finds it useful also for the uniqueness and irreproducibility, he or she would be willing to pay a higher price.
