Tourism and Trails : Cultural, Ecological and Management Issues

Stephen W. Boyd

ISBN 10: 1845414780 / ISBN 13: 9781845414788

Published by Channel View Publications - IPSUK Dez 2014, 2014

About this Item

Neuware - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tourism and Trails : Cultural, Ecological and Management Issues
• Publisher: Channel View Publications - IPSUK Dez 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845414780
• ISBN 13: 9781845414788
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 156H x 18D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 658 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Dallen J. Timothy is Professor, School of Community Resources and Development, Arizona State University, USA. His research interests include tourism and geopolitics, tourism in the Global South, sustainability and tourism development. His most recent publication is Cultural Heritage Tourism in Africa (ed., Routledge, 2023).

Stephen W. Boyd is Professor of Tourism, Masters Degree Coordinator and Research Coordinator in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of Ulster, UK. His research focuses on trails, heritage, national parks, niche tourism development and post-conflict environments.