Rural Tourism and Sustainable Business

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Derek R. Hall, Irene Kirkpatrick, Morag Mitchell
Channel View Publications, 17 mag 2005 - 370 pagine
This book provides the latest conceptual thinking on, and case study exemplification of, rural tourism and sustainable business development from Europe, North America, Australasia, the Middle East and Japan in 19 concise, manageable chapters. The book is organised into distinct yet interrelated sections, and benefits from strong editorial input in terms of context setting and summary chapters. Rural Tourism and Sustainable Business represents a high quality text integrating the latest thinking on the evolving strategic roles of rural tourism and its role in sustainable business development. It provides readily accessible material drawn from a range of environmental and cultural contexts and draws attention to the nature and interrelationships between local and global issues in rural tourism and development.
 

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Key Themes
3
European Perspectives
17
A North American Overview
41
Effective Marketing for Rural Tourism
87
Regional Cooperation in Rural Theme Trails
137
Rural Wine and Food Tourism Cluster
149
Globalisation Rural Tourism and Community Power
165
The Development of Tourism Businesses in Rural
180
Quality as a Key Driver in Sustainable Rural
227
David Leslie Researching the Links Between Environmental
249
A Discourse Analysis of
268
Walter Schiebel Business Development Rural Tourism and the
287
Implications of Milieu
305
Jon Vernon Stephen Essex and Kaja Curry
323
Rural Tourism Business as Sustained
353
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Farm Tourism Cooperation in Taiwan
201

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Derek Hall is a Partner in Seabank Associates, and latterly Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth, UK. He has extensive experience in the field of tourism and political geography. His recent publications include Tourism and Geopolitics: Issues and Concepts from Central and Eastern Europe (CABI, 2017).

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