Free Download Elisabete Figueiredo Elisabeth Kastenholz, Maria João Carneiro, Celeste Eusébio, "Meeting Challenges for Rural Tourism through Co-Creation of Sustainable Tourist Experiences"
English | ISBN: 1443894885 | 2016 | 485 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Rural tourism is not a new phenomenon in many parts of the world, but it has only recently received increased attention from researchers, politicians and managers as a result of new market trends, the recognition of the rural crisis and the urge to solve it. However, there is also evidence that rural tourism is not a miraculous antidote for this crisis, certainly not in all places and under all conditions. Despite some recent studies examining the critical factors of success for rural tourism, there is still a need for a deeper understanding of the rural tourism phenomenon, the nature of the tourism experience and how it could be optimized to the benefit of all, while making the best use of endogenous resources and competences, yielding sustainable destination development. This book contributes to the debate, focusing on the tourist experience, here conceptualized as co-created between hosts and guests, based on destination-specific elements of countryside capital and aiming at sustainability. It contains both conceptual and empirical chapters, with diverse and new perspectives, methodological approaches and cases from several countries.
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