​Imprenditrici e trasmissione generazionale nelle destinazioni turistiche: il caso di Rimini

Patrizia Battilani
Università di Bologna

​Phd in Political Economy, is Professor of Economic history at the University of Bologna (Italy), Department of Economics, where she has been working since 1998. She has published extensively on issues of  economic and business history. Her more recent researches include the history and development of tourist industry, the evolution of cooperative enterprises in an international perspective and the transformation of welfare systems in Europe. She is also Director of the Degree program in Tourism Economics and she sits in the  Scientific Board of  the Postgraduate Master in Economia della cooperazione (Economics of cooperative enterprises) at the University of Bologna. Since 2009 she sits in the Advisory Board of the Journal of Tourism History. In 2013 she has been visiting professor at the University of Sydney. She participate to the research activities of CAST, the Center for Advanced Studies in Tourism of the University of Bologna. (Latest publications include: The use of social networks in marketing: the Italian co-operative experience (2015, with Giuliana Bertagnoni), Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, 1,7 (pp.31-57); Un heritage controverso come prodotto turistico: l'architettura del periodo fascista a Forlì, in R. Garibaldi (ed.), Il turismo culturale europeo: città ri-visitate, FrancoAngeli (2014, with C. Bernini, A. Mariotti); The role of local actors in the tourist development of  UNESCO sites: the case of Alberobello, in “World Heritage, Tourism and Development”, M. Gravari Barbas, eds, Université du Québec (2014, with S. Sgobba).