Librería Portfolio

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.



Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Cultural Routes and Heritage Trails
Chapter 3: Nature Trails and Mixed Routes
Chapter 4: Demand for Trails and Routes
Chapter 5: Tourism, Recreation and Trail Impacts
Chapter 6: Planning and Developing Trails and Routes
Chapter 7: Managing Trails and Routes
Chapter 8: Reflections and Futures