Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alpine Pearls


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Alpine Pearls

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Unsourced since 2016, no evidence of notability. Greenman (talk) 08:00, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
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 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations, Travel and tourism, Europe, Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia,  and Switzerland.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  10:49, 21 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Weak delete I don't think xwiki versions of the article could substantialy help to improve referencing, but we cannot say the concept has no mentions at all.  A09  | (talk)  21:31, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The book notes on page 161: "The study investigates this research question with an illustrative example of the Alpine Pearls, an association of several tourism destinations which develop green mobility across the Alps. ... In the following, the case study of the Alpine Pearls illustrates three meta-organisational characteristics which facilitate sustainable development: rationale for collective action, membership, and decision-making and structure." The book notes on page 166: "With an illustrative case study of the ‘Alpine Pearls’, a meta-organisation in the European Alps, this chapter explores how meta-organisations can help to foster sustainable tourism development across destinations. Alpine Pearls considers itself an umbrella organisation for sustainable tourism and soft mobility. The meta-organisation was founded in 2006 with 17 member destinations as a follow-up to two projects funded by the European Union (Alp Mobility I + II). Fifteen years later, members include 19 destinations (‘member pearls’) in Alpine regions spreading across fve countries: Austria (Werfenweng, Mallnitz, Weissensee, Hinterstoder), Germany (Bad Reichenhall, Berchtesgaden), Slovenia (Bled, Bohinj), Switzerland (Disentis/Mustér), and Italy (Ceresole Reale, Chamois-Le Magdeleine, Cogne, Forni di Sopra, Limone Piemonte, Moena, Moos im Passeiertal, Taschings, Villnöss, Alpe Cimbra). Additionally, more than 90 accommodation businesses (hotels, bed and breakfasts, apartments) in the designated destinations are included as affiliated hosts." The book notes on page 166: "The Alpine Pearls serves as an insightful case of meta-organising in the context of tourism clusters for two main reasons. First, the members of the Alpine Pearls span several different types of organisations (private, single firms like accommodation businesses and public organisations like DMOs or municipalities). Second, although they focus on a specific destination type (alpine, rural areas), they go beyond individual destination borders and span five countries with varying governmental structures."  The articles notes on page 46: "In this paper our attention goes to the network of Alpine Pearls villages, which takes the above measures and others. The municipalities and tourism boards of 22 tourism destinations in the Alpine region are united in the Alpine Pearls (AP) association[1]. In aiming for a sustainable development of Alpine tourism (i.e. environmentally friendly, profitable and high-quality), they stimulate tourists to travel to, between and in Alpine tourism destinations in an environmentally friendly manner." The article notes on page 47: "The Alpine Pearls holiday is about environmentally friendly travel to, between and in the Alpine Pearl villages. This implies the creation of a passage that enables a smooth and fluent journey using environmental-friendly transport means. To investigate the passage for environmentally friendly travel to and in the Alpine region, necessary for Alpine Pearls holidays, attention will be given to what it means to go on an Alpine Pearls holiday and to what extent passages have been developed."  The book notes on page 246: "Werfenweng was placed on the Global 100 Sustainable Destinations list in 2017 and received a number of other relevant awards. SAMO has been copied in a number of tourism destinations – not wholly those which are members of the Alpine Pearls association. Establishment of Alpine Pearls was a significant milestone in the development of gentle mobility in this part of Europe. The existence and activities of Alpine Pearls also provides greater political weight to Werfenweng and all the other members, making it easier to negotiate with other relevant travel and tourism organisations."  The article notes: "In the area of tourism mobility and sustainability the Alpine Pearls initiative is a renowned example, in which the Austrian municipality of Werfenweng is a front runner. ... The Alpine Pearls is an association of 25 municipalities in the six Alpine countries (Alpine Pearls, 2018). It was established in 2006. The association was the result of two successive EU projects. Both of these projects originated in an initiative by the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management. The idea behind the Alpine Pearls was to create innovative tourist packages that protect the environment. The results of these EU projects were implemented by creating the transnational umbrella organization Alpine Pearls for the entire Alpine region. Participating municipalities need to abide to strict environmental quality criteria. Of the five Austrian Pearls, Werfenweng is most advanced in offering sustainable transportation at its destination with a special tourist mobility card that enables tourists to use electrical transportation for free."  The article notes: "Werfenweng is a member of the Alpine Pearls organisation, a project that seeks to promote sustainable tourism in the Alps, the central focus being to combine great sights with environmentally friendly transport initiatives. Today, 24 communities from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy and Slovenia are involved. The result, in Werfenweng at least, is something approaching a model sustainable tourist destination, where sustainability does not have to come at the expense of a great holiday."</li> <li> The book notes: "Already introduced in Chapter 3 (page 37), the Alpine Pearls are a cooperation of 25 small cities and villages located in six different countries in Europe. To understand the necessity of tourists' distribution for the Alpine region ... That the Alpine Pearls wish to contribute to this virtuous goal, is already evident from the opening page of its website where the Alpine Pearls are compared to a necklace of 25 pearls including 'known places' and 'insiders tip' (https://www.alpinepearls.com/en/about-us/alpine-pearls/, Accessed on 6 February 2018). Hence tourists are lured from places where the carrying capacity is reached, to rather unknown places that have sufficient carrying capacity to cater for these tourists—on the website beautifully referred to as the 'insiders tip'. By buying a package tour offered via the website of the Alpine Pearls, tourists might visit places they would not visit otherwise and are led to spend money at these places. Hence, there are more locals who benefit. At the same time, the visitors' pressure on the main tourist regions might lower a bit and allow both the social protection of locals and tourists - who are less disturbed by (other) tourists - and the environmental protection of sensitive areas."</li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Alpine Pearls to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 10:00, 26 March 2024 (UTC) </li></ul> Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Eddie891 Talk Work 15:51, 28 March 2024 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   18:27, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
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 * Keep: Per Cunard's sourcing. <span style="background-color: rgb(240, 233, 205); padding: 3px"><span style="color: rgb(237, 50, 45);">StreetcarEnjoyer <span style="color: rgb(237, 50, 45);">(talk)  19:23, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete:. There is no complete coverage GQO  (talk) 7:31, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
 * What does "complete coverage" mean? Geschichte (talk) 07:48, 5 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Keep: Per Cunard's sourcing listed above. — Maile (talk) 01:05, 6 April 2024 (UTC)


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