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Plenary
Lecture
Transformation, Innovation and Adaptation for Sustainability in Tourism – Case
Study: Turinn Cluster
Professor Mirela Mazilu
University of Craiova
Social Sciences Faculty
Department of Geography
ROMANIA
E-mail: mirelamazilu2004@yahoo.com
Abstract: Motto: “Drawing cluster boundaries is often a matter of degree,
and involves a creative process informed by understanding the most important
linkages and complementarities across industries and institutions to
competition”. (Porter, M. E. (1998) Clusters and the new economics of
competitiveness. Harvard Business)
The present stage of evolution of the human society is characterized by an
unprecedented development of tourism, materialized in the inclusion of new and
new regions in its range of capitalization. Therefore, not without reason, some
researchers consider tourism as the most dynamic world industry of the 21-st
century, which we have just entered only a decade ago. The first condition to
develop leisure activities is the existence of attractive resources, the “raw
material” which, by means of adequate planning, may become a proper supply.
Apart from the attractions, an importance that should not be neglected is held
by the position of the country compared to the general orientation of
international tourism flows, the size of the domestic tourism market, the stage
of economic and social development, the specialized infrastructure, the
tradition of tourism activities , implementation of cluster policy, etc.
Sustainable development is a global and long-term challenge. Sustainability for
tourism as for other industries has three independent aspects: economic,
socio-cultural and environmental. Sustainable development implies permanence,
which means that sustainable tourism requires the optimal use of resources
(including biological diversity), minimizing the negative economic,
socio-cultural and ecological impact, maximizing benefits of local communities,
national economies and conservation of nature. As a consequence, sustainability
also refers to the management structures needed to meet these goals.
The goal of achieving sustainable tourism should be subordinated to national and
regional plans of economic and social development. Actions may cover for
economic goals (income growth, diversification and integration of activities,
control, development potentiating and zoning), social goals (poverty and income
distribution inequality improvement, indigenous socio-cultural heritage
protection, participation and involvement of local communities) or environmental
goals (protection of tourism functions, conservation and sustainable use of
biodiversity). Some experts prefer to speak about sustainable tourism
development rather than sustainable tourism, the first referring to all aspects
of development, and the second to some aspects and components of tourism – such
as long distance air transport that may easily not be sustainable under current
technologies, even using the best practices. With respecting and promoting the
principles of sustainable development, tourism is a means of protection,
conservation and capitalization of the cultural, historical, architectural and
folklore potential of countries. Among the global competition for markets, the
chances of the economic success of one country or one region are based on the
specialisation of the offer and the focus on the development effort of
key-fields, where there are competitive advantages, resources and competences.
In this context, the innovative clusters in tourism are a successful solution
because they offer a combination of entrepreneurial dynamism, intense
connections between companies and institutions, which hold top knowledge,
respectively pro-active synergies between the main actors of innovation(Fallon,
P. and Schofield, P. (2009 )and Mazilu, M.,2010) At the level of the European
Union, the innovative clusters are considered the “engine” of the economic
development and innovation, these representing a very good frame for the
development of business, for the collaboration between companies, universities,
research institutions, suppliers, clients and competitors located in the same
geographical area (local, regional, national, cross-national). In recent years
there has been a growing interest in the role of location in the global economy.
Some have argued that globalization is rendering the significance of location
for economic activity increasingly irrelevant (O’Brien, 1992; Cairncross, 1997;
Gray, 1998). Others, however, espouse the opposite view, that globalization is
actually increasing rather than reducing the importance of location, that it is
promoting greater regional economic distinctiveness, and that regional economies
rather than national economies are now the salient foci of wealth creation and
world trade (Ohmae, 1995; Coyle, 1997, 2001; Krugman, 1997; Storper, 1997;
Porter, 1998a; Scott, 1998, 2001; Fujita et al., 2000, Ron Martin & Peter
Sunley,2003,Mazilu,M,2010). The innovative clusters in tourism, must not act
only regionally, (ex .Turinn- Cluster, in Mehedinti County) but they must look
for excellence where it is possible, and on an international level there are few
that work alone. The public institutions must be opened to the granting of the
necessary support for the innovative clusters.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Mirela Elena Mazilu is professor of
the University of Craiova, University Centre of Drobeta Turnu Severin, Drobeta
Turnu Severin town, Romania. She has many national and international researches
naming 11 books which were published as a single author; 4 university manuals
especially in tourism; over 167 articles which were published in the volumes of
the national and international Congresses, symposiums, conferences and seminars
and also in prestigious magazines with CNCSIS range and over 194 participations
to scientific events. Also, she published over 44 articles in international
magazines in different fields such as: Sustainable tourism,European integration,
ecology, environment protection, tourism and 46 articles in national journals
CNCSIS,etc. She has 18 articles published in International Journals of specialty
with ISI range and 2 in Naun Journal.
Her papers are cited in International Data Bases (42).With multiple
preoccupations in the field of tourism, organizer of 2 Euro-regional fairs of
tourism(with participation Mondial Travel Organization) and 3 International
Conferences(2004,2006,2009) and in the 4th Conference organized the Special
Session "Sustainable Tourism" in collaboration with WSEAS, Plenary Lecturer in
Conference :Economy, Management and Transformation 2010 (EMT' 2010) organized by
WSEAS, Chairman in many national and international conferences, reviewer in 4
Journals of Tourism, coordinator of over 20 research grants, member of doctoral
commissions, winner of many diplomas of excellence on tourism and prizes for the
researches made in tourism, member of many national(16) and international(22)
tourism organizations (AIEST,CIRET,TIES,SUSTAINABLE TOURISM,TTRA,REZOTOUR,
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE MOUNTAIN RESEARCH NETWORK, CEDIMES ,etc.). Also member of
Editorial boards of national and international journals on tourism, President of
2 NGO, in Tourism.
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