RT Journal Article T1 Tourism Development in UNESCO Natural Heritage Sites: The Case of Sicilian Volcanic Sites: Mount Etna and Aeolian Islands A1 Ruggieri, Giovanni A1 Calderón-Vázquez, Francisco José K1 Patrimonio K1 Biología de la conservación K1 Volcanes - Sicilia AB Local development often depends on tourism, especially in fragile contexts like islands which represent a special cluster and are the best cases to be analyzed in order to highlight positive and negative aspects of economic development driven by tourism. A sustainable development approach should be taken in account and the UNESCO brand plays a fundamental role in this sense. The aim of this paper is to analyze the link between tourism supply and the growth of tourism demand in the case of UNESCO sites through multivariate regression analysis. The results show a correlation between the variables considered. But the actual structure of supply is still built on conventional sea tourism and is not yet organized to host and attract tourism demand connected with the UNESCO active volcano area. The UNESCO brand could guarantee a new approach for local tourism development if associated with a specific tourism supply structure. PB David Publishing Company (Chinese Business Review) YR 2017 FD 2017 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33484 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33484 LA eng NO Ruggieri, G.; Calderón Vázquez, Francisco J. Tourism Development in UNESCO Natural Heritage Sites: The Case of Sicilian Volcanic Sites: Mount Etna and Aeolian Islands. Chinese Business Review, Nov. 2017, Vol. 16, No. 11, 544-554 doi: 10.17265/1537-1506/2017.11.002 DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 19 ene 2026