"Tourism Routes and Trails plunges into the world of 'extended' tourism, offering an exploration of the 'routes' phenomenon whereby tourism is no longer for a given destination, but extends over multiple sites, a territory or landscape. Covering how such routes are created, often as ways of clustering experiences, it also reviews their effects on tourism businesses, local populations and other stakeholders. Emphasising the critical role of local communities, volunteers and small businesses, as well as those who provide strategic direction and funding, the book: - Is based in tourism theory, but focuses on the models and practice of route formation; - Includes a rich selection of contemporary examples and cases, showing the reader best practice as well as illustrating challenges and risks; - Covers both strategic issues of concern to nations, regions and local authorities, and the complex dynamics occurring on the ground, such as the role of grass-roots organisations and local communities. Routes allow destinations to diversify their offer and spread the economic and social benefits of tourism. With tourist behaviour increasingly shifting to thematic experiences, this book shows how to create these in a way that is both meaningful for visitors and beneficial for the destination. Suitable for tourism policy makers, economic development agencies and local stakeholders, it is also a vital resource for the next generation; students of tourism, sociology, local politics and economic development"--

Tourism Routes and Trails plunges into the world of 'extended' tourism, offering an exploration of the 'routes' phenomenon whereby tourism is no longer for a given destination, but extends over multiple sites, a territory or landscape. Covering how such routes are created, often as ways of clustering experiences, it also reviews their effects on tourism businesses, local populations and other stakeholders.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of trails and routes from a tourism and recreation perspective. This cutting-edge volume addresses conceptual and management issues systematically, examining supply, demand, development and impacts associated with trails and routes.

This case study is part of the Contemporary Cases Online series. The series provides critical case studies that are original, flexible, challenging, controversial and research-informed, driven by the needs of teaching and learning.

Move over traditional sightseeing, throngs of visitors, and tourist traps! Explore Europe on Foot gives travelers an alternative way to discover Europe. A hiking vacation offers countless rewards: the time to admire the tidiness of a village farm, soak in the rugged alpine view from a rocky perch, and absorb a country through the smells of its landscape and encounters with locals. Explore Europe on Foot is a complete guide to conceptualizing, planning, and executing the slow-travel hike (or hikes!) of a lifetime. Author Cassandra Overby tells you how you can spend all, or even just part, of your vacation enjoying scenery, small towns, and cultural experiences most travelers miss—all without carrying a big backpack. This guide offers all the nuts and bolts you need: how to choose a route that is right for you, how to plan, what to pack, what to expect, how to find accommodations and food, how to deal with challenges along the way, and so much more. These aren’t wilderness backpacking trips, but rather a wide range of town-to-town walks that offer the opportunity to have an authentic, affordable, restorative vacation. Travelers will also appreciate overviews of fifteen long-distance trails in Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and Turkey, with itineraries that range from one to fifteen days. For those unwilling to go all-in, Cassandra also offers tips on incorporating day-hike outings into a more traditional vacation. The focus is on how to craft that more immersive vacation so users of the guide will be able to apply what they learn to their own dream destinations. 15 Handpicked Walks include: Rota Vicentina, Portugal English Way, Spain Mont Saint-Michel, FranceTour du Mont Blanc, France and Italy Cinque Terre 2.0, Italy Lycian Way, Turkey Alpine Pass Route, Switzerland King Ludwig’s Way, Germany The Moselle, Germany The Ardennes, Luxembourg and Belgium The Lake District, England, UK West Highland Way, Scotland, UK Laugavegur Trek, Iceland The Sahara Desert, Morocco

The Routledge Handbook of Borders and Tourism examines the multiple and diverse relationships between global tourism and political boundaries. With contributions from international, leading thinkers, this book offers theoretical frameworks for understanding borders and tourism and empirical examples from borderlands throughout the world. This handbook provides comprehensive overview of historical and contemporary thinking about evolving national frontiers and tourism. Tourism, by definition, entails people crossing borders of various scales and is manifested in a wide range of conceptualizations of human mobility. Borders significantly influence tourism and determine how the industry grows, is managed, and manifests on the ground. Simultaneously, tourism strongly affects borders, border laws, border policies, and international relations. This book highlights the traditional relationships between borders and tourism, including borders as attractions, barriers, transit spaces, and determiners of tourism landscapes. It offers deeper insights into current thinking about space and place, mobilities, globalization, citizenship, conflict and peace, trans-frontier cooperation, geopolitics, "otherness" and here versus there, the heritagization of borders and memory-making, biodiversity, and bordering, debordering, and rebordering processes. Offering an unparalleled interdisciplinary glimpse at political boundaries and tourism, this handbook will be an essential resource for all students and researchers of tourism, geopolitics and border studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, history, international relations, and global studies.

Pilgrimage trails and routes : journeys from the past to the present / Daniel H. Olsen, Anna Trono, and Paul R. Fidgeon -- Religious pilgrimage routes and trails as driving forces for sustainable local development / Anna Trono and Valentina Castronovo -- Cultural routes : tourist destinations and tools for development / Dallen J. Timothy -- The role of heritage tourism in the management and promotion of pilgrimage trails and routes / Stephen W. Boyd -- Environment and sustainability as related to religious pilgrimage routes and trails / Gabriella Trombino and Anna Trono -- The European Cultural Route of Saint Martin of Tours / Raffaella Afferni and Carla Ferrario -- The Camino de Santiago de Compostela : the most important historic pilgrimage way in Europe / Rubén C. Lois-González, Xosé M. Santos, Pilar Taboada-de-Zúñiga Romero -- The Holy Grail route : mystic routes and activities to improve local tourism / Paul R. Fidgeon -- Religious pilgrimage routes in the Baltic countries : history and perspectives / Darius Liutikas -- Pilgrimage trails in Malta / Vincent Zammit -- Pilgrimage routes from Central Europe and Scandinavia towards Jerusalem and Santiago de Compostela / Tomasz Duda -- The ways to Jerusalem : maritime cultural and pilgrimage routes / Anna Trono and Marco Leo Imperiale -- Palkhi, a moving town / Kiran A. Shinde -- Kashi and Cosmos, India : the pilgrimage circuit of the Panchakroshi Yatra / Rana P.B. Singh and Pravin S. Rana -- Pilgrimage to Mount Bromo, India / Jaeyeon Choe and Michael Hitchcock -- The Shikoku pilgrimage : popularity and the pilgrim's transaction / Greg Wilkinson -- Challenges facing the sustainable development of slave trade routes and trails in Cameroon / Vreny Enongene and Kevin Griffin -- The Talpa de Allende pilgrimage trail / Daniel H. Olsen and Rodrigo Espinoza Sanchez -- Pilgrimage and identity along the Mormon Trail / Daniel H. Olsen and Brian J. Hill -- Pilgrimage trails and routes : journeys from the present to the future / Anna Trono and Daniel H. Olsen