The paper focuses, by 'good paradigms' on a 'new' poor areas development concept, by a win-win-win methodology [well known as 'Papakonstantinidis Model']. It highlights both: (a) the globalization and the local development methodology contradiction in terms of 'diversification rate' from the...

Central to this discourse are response to two-fold questions, namely; How do SMEs take part in capacity-building in local society? How should rural tourism SMEs be fostered to raise their capacity? The new paradigm of Rural Regional Development, mainly based on Rural Tourism activities which...