Tourism Management

Landscape, Leisure and Tourism: Socio-spatial studies in experiences, practices and policies explores the relationship between people and space in everyday environments, leisure environments and tourist environments.

How can economic development of tourism contribute to the preservation of qualities in rural areas? How can tourism innovations be generated? How can policy-makers effectively influence economic development? This book explores sense and non-sense of interactive approaches to rural tourism development. It confronts - often optimistic - theoretical ideas with practices in four regions in the Netherlands and France.