Competitività e coesione territoriale nelle nuove politiche del turismo

Competitiveness and territorial Cohesion in the New tourism policies: one of the most current topics relative to tourism development policies is to find a balance between tourists’ needs and the various territorial communities, through management of destinations and attendance policies of the various social participants. From the european perspective, the tourism sector must necessarily aim to improve competitiveness, taking into account various aspects such as the quality of products and services, social responsibility, natural resources and the diversity of cultural heritage. in this context, developing indicators can take on a strategic role to identify improvement fringes of territorial competition, following an ever more effective monitoring of tourism destinations through an evaluation process relative to decision making information, effective management of risks, priority definition of service projects, benchmarking performance. in the present study, the analysis of the rome tourism development model, carried out also compared to good international practices, defines proposals and reflections on competitiveness and territorial cohesion in the new tourism policy so as to propose a route of applied research for the rome metropolitan area, which considers the analysis relation between the new indicators and the planner tools for the definition of tourist package.