The Albergo Diffuso Model: Community-Based Hospitality for a Sustained Competitive Advantage

by Maurizio Droli

The hospitality model called "Albergo Diffuso" (AD), or "scattered hotel," has been engneered by Mr Giancarlo Dall'Ara and described by The New York Times as a way of bringing life back to historic towns and rural hamlets by utilizing unused rooms for tourism. This "simple but genial" model devised in Italy in the mid-90's received an award from the UNDP for its sustainability, but despite the spread of AD's, no peer-reviewed books have previously...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110639734
• ISBN13: 9783110639735
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.6"