In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

The article explores the effects of cultural heritage in fostering tourism demand. We look at
the role of UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) in the enhancement of tourism destinations …

The article involves a study along the line of performance analysis of tourist destinations, yet
taking the regions as territorial units and cultural tourism as a tourist flow to be explored. The …

In this paper, we conducted a two-stage analysis of technical efficiency in Italian judicial
districts by focusing on civil cases in 2006. Unlike most of the works that apply the Data …

In Italy, public state libraries are multi-product organizations preserving ancient books of
great historical relevance for future generations, and providing divisible services to the …

Data Envelopment Analysis is used to evaluate museum efficiency. This approach enables
us to create a relative efficiency measure for each museum, taking into account resources …

The aim of this work is to posit a model to evaluate the efficiency of a system of urban public
libraries and to examine the impact of certain contextual variables on the level of …

This study analyzes business performance through efficiency score estimation in two
sustainable tourism models: cultural tourism and rural tourism. The study uses …

Almost everywhere public intervention in cultural heritage (CH) conservation is widespread.
Using Italy as a case study, the paper analyses public capital expenditure for CH …

The importance of preserving world heritage sites (WHS) has been recognized worldwide.
WHS are still damaged in many developing countries, who insist that preserving lead to poor …