In many European regions, rural areas are facing major challenges in economic and social terms, consequence of transformations in the role and meaning of agriculture. The loss of the productive character strongly contributed to the emergence of new roles and functions, particularly related to leisure and tourism. The book aims to discuss questions directly related to the connections between rural tourism and local socioeconomic contexts, presenting diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives and diff erent case studies from various European regions. The book addresses the relationships among rural tourism and the complex interactions, confl icts and innovative processes developing in rural territories as consequence of the implementation of tourism activities. The book responds to some relevant and not yet comprehensively researched aspects within this topic, especially in what extent tourism, in its various forms and processes, might give an important contribution to rural development.
Elisabete Maria Melo Figueiredo
University of Aveiro, Portugal - ORCID: 0000-0001-7170-3369
CNR-IBIMET, Institute of Biometeorology, Italy
Book Title
Fertile Links? Connections between tourism activities, socioeconomic contexts and local development in European rural areas
Editors
Elisabete Maria Melo Figueiredo, Antonio Raschi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
248
Publication Year
2013
Copyright Information
© 2013 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-389-2
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-388-5
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-389-2
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-553-8
Series Title
Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca
Series ISSN
2704-6249
Series E-ISSN
2704-5870