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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456033903321

Titolo

Tourism in peripheral areas [[electronic resource] ] : case studies / / edited by Frances Brown and Derek Hall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Clevedon, UK ; ; Tonawanda, NY, : Channel View Publications, c2000

ISBN

1-84541-396-2

1-280-62805-7

9786610628056

1-873150-74-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Collana

Aspects of Tourism ; ; 1

Aspects of tourism ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

BrownFrances <1956->

HallDerek R

Disciplina

338.4/791404

338.47914

338.4791404

Soggetti

Rural development - Europe

Tourism - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Paradox of Peripherality; Chapter 1 Perceptions from the Periphery: The Experience of Wales; Chapter 2 PACE: Guiding Rural Tourism Development in a Fragile Area; Chapter 3 Peripheries, Artificial Peripheries and Centres; Chapter 4 Tourist Perceptions of the Ultimate European Periphery; Chapter 5 Farm Accommodation and Agricultural Heritage in Orkney; Chapter 6 The Fall and Rise of Peripherality: Tourism and Restructuring on Bute; Chapter 7 The Evolution of Tourism in the Tàˆrna Mountains: Arena and Actors in a Periphery

Chapter 8 Tourism's Role in New Rural Policy for Peripheral Areas: The Case of ArjeplogIndex

Sommario/riassunto

There has been little research on tourism in those European countries or regions which lie outside the continent's main centres of production



and population, even though tourism may be one of the few economic options open to them. This volume aims to fill a gap by presenting a range of case studies - including northern Sweden, the Orkneys, the tip of Norway and northern Cyprus - on tourism in the peripheral areas of Europe. Taking as a leitmotiv the paradoxes inherent in developing places whose very attraction may lie in their lack of development, the case studies investigate and illustrate bo