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Tourism and trails : cultural, ecological and management issues / Dallen J. Timothy and Stephen W. Boyd.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextBristol, UK ;;Buffalo, NY : Channel View Publications, [2015]Description: xviii, 307 pages : illustrations 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781845414771 (pbk : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • G 156.5.H47 .T487 2015
Contents:
Introduction -- Cultural routes and heritage trails -- Nature trails and mixed routes -- Demand for trails and routes -- Tourism, recreation and trail impacts -- Planning and developing trails and routes -- Managing routes and trails -- Reflections and futures.
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. -- book cover
List(s) this item appears in: SPST121_TOURISM PROMOTION SERVICES 2 | SSPT122_TOUR GUIDING SERVICES 1 | STPS111_TOURISM AND PROMOTION SERVICES (NCII)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-295) and index.

Introduction -- Cultural routes and heritage trails -- Nature trails and mixed routes -- Demand for trails and routes -- Tourism, recreation and trail impacts -- Planning and developing trails and routes -- Managing routes and trails -- Reflections and futures.

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. -- book cover

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