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Tourism and Trails : Cultural, Ecological and Management Issues / Dallen J. Timothy, Stephen W. Boyd.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Aspects of Tourism ; 64Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845414788
  • 9781845414795
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.5 23
LOC classification:
  • G156.5.H47 T564 2015
  • G156.5.H47
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cultural Routes and Heritage Trails -- 3. Nature Trails and Mixed Routes -- 4. Demand for Trails and Routes -- 5. Tourism, Recreation and Trail Impacts -- 6. Planning and Developing Trails and Routes -- 7. Managing Routes and Trails -- 8. Reflections and Futures -- References -- Index
Summary: Trails and routes have been indispensable to travel and tourism over the centuries, helping to form the basis of mobility patterns of the past and the present. This book is the first to comprehensively examine these tourism trails from a tourism and recreation perspective. This cutting-edge volume is global in scope and discusses a wide range of natural, cultural and developed linear resources for tourism and recreation. The book is suitable for both researchers and students who are interested in cultural heritage-based tourism, recreation and leisure studies, landscape and change, human mobility, geography, environmental management, and broader interests in destination planning, development and management.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781845414795

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cultural Routes and Heritage Trails -- 3. Nature Trails and Mixed Routes -- 4. Demand for Trails and Routes -- 5. Tourism, Recreation and Trail Impacts -- 6. Planning and Developing Trails and Routes -- 7. Managing Routes and Trails -- 8. Reflections and Futures -- References -- Index

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Trails and routes have been indispensable to travel and tourism over the centuries, helping to form the basis of mobility patterns of the past and the present. This book is the first to comprehensively examine these tourism trails from a tourism and recreation perspective. This cutting-edge volume is global in scope and discusses a wide range of natural, cultural and developed linear resources for tourism and recreation. The book is suitable for both researchers and students who are interested in cultural heritage-based tourism, recreation and leisure studies, landscape and change, human mobility, geography, environmental management, and broader interests in destination planning, development and management.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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