Meeting challenges for rural tourism through co-creation of sustainable tourist experiences / edited by Elisabeth Kastenholz [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kastenholz, Elisabeth, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introductory Chapter

Part I. The Visitor's View

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Part II. Local Actors and Communities, Local Resources and Conditions

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Part III. Rural Tourism and Sustainable Destination Development

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 2, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-9831-7

OCLC:

957317911