The Bio-cultural fingerprint in the Alpine-Adriatic EuroRegion. A methodological proposal starting from the cases of Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia

The approach to the territory’s bio-cultural fingerprint can be very important when it comes to studying uniformities and differences which make up a Euro-region. By examining the code of the attributes and the modalities it is therefore possible to determine the landscape-cultural uniformities which can create a common project for tourist attraction. After all, the differences underline emergencies of a cultural, natural, agricultural, and wine-gastronomic nature which are capable of not only rendering a territory identifiable but also of presenting it to integrated tourist packages. The objective is therefore to verify the competitive ability and the "territorial cohesion" which can enhance the potentialities of the so-called "territorial capital." (Klaus, 2006, Camagni, 2008) This first piece of comparative work amongst the fingerprints of the Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia regions uses a model which can appraise the tourism attraction by using Hollerith’s measure and determining the attributes’ code which characterizes homogeneous sets of towns. This research will hereafter attempt to verify the possible answer of the users of an integrated tourism supply in the Alpine-Adriatic Euro-region.