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Miriam Weiß

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Institute for Regional Development

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Miriam L. Weiß is member of the research group Space & Society at the Eurac Research Institute for Regional Development. She holds a Master of Arts and Sciences and a Bachelor of Arts in European Studies, both from Maastricht University (The Netherlands).

Her current research interests are tour guiding and sustainable tourism in the urban and rural context.

Prior to joining Eurac Research in 2009, Ms Weiß worked in the field of transatlantic relations in research, policy advice and cultural tourism (Foundation on Economic Trends – The Office of Jeremy Rifkin/USA, American Institute for Foreign Study/Germany, Organisation für Internationale Kontakte/Germany).

Ms Weiß is a trilingual (German, English, Italian) tour manager certified by the Provincial Commission of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano-South Tyrol.

Scientific Publications

Edited book2025

Regional Development, Sustainability, and the Next Generation: Proceedings of the 8th International Research Forum on Guided Tours, Bolzano/Bozen 28-30 May 2024

Weiß ML

Miriam Weiß

Project: Innovative approach to professionalizing the occupational groups tourist guide and tour manager in South Tyrol

The 8th International Research Forum on Guided Tours (IRFGT) 2024 explored how guided tours can adapt to current challenges like climate change, overtourism, technological shifts, and labor shortage. Held in South Tyrol, Italy, this year’s Forum gathered researchers, tourist guides, and industry stakeholders to examine the role of tour guiding in fostering sustainability, regional development, and in addressing future workforce needs. Key discussions emphasized the importance of ongoing education for tour guides to meet evolving tourist expectations, highlighting their role as cultural intermediaries and advocates for responsible travel. With participants from 14 countries, the IRFGT’s agenda included workshops and case studies that revealed innovative practices such as ecological urban trekking and online guided tours. Sessions addressed sustainable tourism, heritage interpretation, and new guiding methods, while spotlighting the next generation of tour guides and the need for attractive career pathways. Founded in 2009, the IRFGT aims to deepen the understanding and significance of guided tours within the tourism industry worldwide.

DOI Source

DOI: 10.57749/40d9-7246

Inbook2017

La cultura dell'accoglienza nelle Alpi: le prospettive del progetto PlurAlps. Ripensare le migrazioni per uno spazio alpino pluralistico

Weiß ML, Dalla Torre C, Streifeneder T

Miriam Weiß, Cristina Dalla Torre, Thomas Streifeneder

Project: Enhancing capacities for a pluralistic Alpine Space

La regione alpina si sta confrontando con un profondo cambiamento demografico che mette in questione i modelli di sviluppo socio-economico finora adottati. Vettori di questo cambiamento sono da un lato la tendenza all’invecchiamento della popolazione e dall’altro il fenomeno delle migrazioni.
Riguardo a queste ultime, il discorso pubblico è attualmente dominato da una semantica negativa, che collega in via quasi esclusiva le migrazioni alla problematicità legata all’accoglienza dei profughi.
Nel contesto del progetto PlurAlps, che verrà raccontato nelle prossime pagine, si ritiene invece importante ampliare il significato del termine “migrante” per considerare le persone si spostano internamente al paese o alla regione d’origine, in quanto nuovi arrivati per la comunità ospitante. Inoltre, PlurAlps considera migranti anche coloro che hanno risieduto in un paese straniero sia per meno che per più di un anno.
La cultura dell’accoglienza rappresenta l’attitudine all’apertura della comunità nei confronti della migrazione; è “un processo deliberatamente concepito che […] facilita l’apprendimento e lo scambio tra popoli diversi, modi di vivere diversi, e forme di organizzazione, rimuovendo le barriere all’accesso e meccanismi limitanti nelle organizzazioni” (Schröer 2007). Da questa prospettiva sulla migrazione emergono nuove opportunità di innovazione sociale nei comuni alpini.

DOI

DOI: 10.4399/978882550494114

Inbook2016

Cooperation models and pluri-activity to exhaust value added potentials in mountain regions

Weiß M, Hoffmann C, Streifeneder T

Miriam Weiß, Thomas Streifeneder, Christian Hoffmann

Unfavorable site conditions, short vegetation periods, low accessibility and market pressure are issues small structured farms in the Alps have to cope with. Horizontal and vertical cooperation and a pluri-activity business model to exploit their economic possibilities best is their response. Manifold and beneficial inter-linkages between farms and accommodation are quite common in the Alps to sustain farming activities. In explorative studies in South Tyrol, Italy’s northernmost province, various forms of cooperative approaches were investigated to point out diverging expectations of demand and supply as well as factors favoring and hindering cooperation. For sustaining mutual respect, accommodations have to be aware that typical regional products from a valley have a limited quantity due to season or limited production capacities. Hence, they lack planning security. Coping with these circumstances requires a proper regional food cooperation scheme with sophisticated logistical and organizational solutions, with innovative approaches of trustable entrepreneurs to promote these certified and high quality regional food products, and the valley’s authenticity as a unique selling point. Distinctive menus, authentic people and untouched nature are themselves ambassadors of the valley. Successful integration of South Tyrolean food cooperative systems in touristic packages has strengthened accommodations own market position and has resulted in meaningful side- and multiplier effects along the whole value added chain in the region.

DOI

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27905-3

Report2012

COMUNIS: inter-municipal cooperation for strategic steering of SME-oriented location development in the Alpine space; final publication

Weiß ML

Miriam Weiß

ISBN: 978-88-88906-80-5

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Report2012

COMUNIS: interkommunale Kooperation für die strategische Steuerung KMU-orientierter Standortentwicklung im Alpenraum; Projekt Synthesebericht = Coopération inter-municipale pour la gestion stratégique d' implantation de PME dans l' espace alpin = Cooperazione intercomunale per il piano strategico di sviluppo delle aree produttive polifunzionali a carattere commerciale nella regione alpina

Weiß ML

Miriam Weiß

ISBN: 978-88-88906-79-9

Book2011

National achievements and challenges related to the implementation of the Carpathian Convention

Weiß ML, Streifeneder T

Miriam Weiß, Thomas Streifeneder

ISBN: 978-88-88906-72-0

Like the previous report "A Heightened Perspective" (2007), this report aims at providing a synthetic and comprehensive overview of the relevant policies, projects, initiatives, best practices, and other activities related to the implementation of the protocols of the Carpathian Convention since 2007. Based on consultations of the National Focal Points and regional experts it presents opportunities and challenges and points out the achievements made in the Carpathian Convention Member States and the problems encountered. It provides recommendations for measures to enable the further implementation of the Carpathian Convention. With the support of and in cooperation with the Interim Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention (ISCC) - United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Vienna Office, the Institute for Regional Development and Location Management of the European Academy Bolzano elaborated the report as background document within the project 'BIOREGIO Carpathians - Integrated management of biological and landscape diversity for sustainable regional development and ecological connectivity in the Carpathians', (project developed under the South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme 2007- 2013, Programme co-funded by the European Union).

Inbook2017

La cultura dell'accoglienza nelle Alpi: le prospettive del progetto PlurAlps. Ripensare le migrazioni per uno spazio alpino pluralistico

Weiß ML, Dalla Torre C, Streifeneder T

Miriam Weiß, Cristina Dalla Torre, Thomas Streifeneder

Project: Enhancing capacities for a pluralistic Alpine Space

DOI

DOI: 10.4399/978882550494114

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Scientific Publications

Regional Development, Sustainability, and the Next Generation: Proceedings of the 8th International Research Forum on Guided Tours, Bolzano/Bozen 28-30 May 2024

La cultura dell'accoglienza nelle Alpi: le prospettive del progetto PlurAlps. Ripensare le migrazioni per uno spazio alpino pluralistico

Cooperation models and pluri-activity to exhaust value added potentials in mountain regions

COMUNIS: inter-municipal cooperation for strategic steering of SME-oriented location development in the Alpine space; final publication

National achievements and challenges related to the implementation of the Carpathian Convention

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Regional Development, Sustainability, and the Next Generation: Proceedings of the 8th International Research Forum on Guided Tours, Bolzano/Bozen 28-30 May 2024

La cultura dell'accoglienza nelle Alpi: le prospettive del progetto PlurAlps. Ripensare le migrazioni per uno spazio alpino pluralistico

Cooperation models and pluri-activity to exhaust value added potentials in mountain regions

COMUNIS: inter-municipal cooperation for strategic steering of SME-oriented location development in the Alpine space; final publication

National achievements and challenges related to the implementation of the Carpathian Convention

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