L’analisi delle simbolizzazioni affettive delle Aree Naturali Protette per un turismo responsabile. Il caso studio delle Riserva Naturale Orientata dello Zingaro.

ABSTRACT This paper presents a research on responsible tourism in protected areas, through the case study of Zingaro Nature Reserve (Sicily). The main objectives of this study were to examine the so-called collusive processes elaborated by different stakeholder of natural protected area and to propose strategies and guidelines for intervention in the perspective of sustainable development and responsible use of the local tourist activities, based on the results. The methodology applied was Emotional Analysis of the Text (EAT) that allowed to investigate the emotional representations and the expectations of stakeholders, through the study of co-occurrances of the so-called dense words, using the statistical software for textual analysis T-LAB.