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Tourism is one of the main growing sectors in the global economy bringing new opportunities associated with the transportation offer. The Covid -19 health crisis, which caused a major shock in tourist flows, also represents the main “watershed” for the evaluation of any changes that occurred in the tourism development model and its destinations. In Italy - including the islands - there is a significant recovery in tourist flows post Covid-19. In this framework, the objective of the paper is to develop a methodological approach based on geospatial analysis to evaluate the spatial distribution of tourism flow in Italian insular contexts. In this sense, the Sardinia Region in Italy represents an interesting case study to analyze tourist destinations related to air and maritime traffic (pre and post Covid-19). The manuscript, which is part of the “e.INS – Ecosystem of Innovation for Next Generation Sardinia”, supports the construction of the airport MaaS concept, to better organize the transport offer in the insular context, enhancing sustainable mobility.
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• This study was carried out within the “e.INS – Ecosystem of Innovation for Next Generation Sardinia” funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research under the Next-Generation EU Programme (National Recovery and Resilience Plan – PNRR, M4C2, INVESTMENT 1.5 – DD 1056 of 23/06/2022, ECS00000038). This manuscript reflects only the authors’ views and opinions, neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be considered responsible for them.
• This study was carried out within the MOST – Sustainable Mobility National Research Center
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Ginevra Balletto and M.L. wrote Sect. 1; M.L. wrote Sect. 2.1; Ginevra Balletto wrote Sect. 2.2; Ginevra Balletto and Giuseppe Borruso wrote Sect. 2.3; Ginevra Balletto, Giuseppe Borruso, M.L. and M.S. wrote Sect. 3; Ginevra Balletto and M.L. wrote Sect. 4. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
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Balletto, G., Ladu, M., Sinatra, M., Borruso, G. (2024). Application of Geospatial Analysis to Tourist Flows in the Insular Destinations. In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Garau, C., Taniar, D., C. Rocha, A.M.A., Faginas Lago, M.N. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2024 Workshops. ICCSA 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14821. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65308-7_17
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