Tourism has been blamed for the recent closings of local Venetian stores. However, this is an open question. SmartDest, a European research initiative, explores the relationship between tourism, commerce, housing, and mobility in major cities. This project, in partnership with Venetian benefit organization SerenDPT, contributes to SmartDest by providing a fully updated inventory of all retail and hospitality businesses in Venice. We improved an existing mobile application to record shop data collected through direct observation, noting and analyzing shop types, location, target customer, and trends in turnovers. This application and database provides a baseline for more detailed future analyses of commerce trends in the historic city.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Robinson, Kody
• Gosukonda, Deepti
• Daly, Patrick

Subject

• Community
• Inclusion
• Industry

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 83461
• E-project-121522-134847

Keyword

• Economy
• Data Visualization
• Data Analysis
• Web Application
• Commerce

Advisor

• Higgins, Lorraine D.
• Carrera, Fabio

Year

• 2022

Center

• Venice, Italy Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• SmartDest

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
• 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production

Date created

• 2022-12-15

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-121522-134847

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved

Last modified

• 2023-02-06