Walking is a potential key growth area for a diversifying domestic leisure and tourism
demand in China. This research discusses the emergence of walking as a touristic activity …

Embodied mobilities are an important factor in how people engage with their environment,
and thus contribute to the formation, contestation, and affirmation of place. Walking is a …

The relationship between mobility and place-making in the context of tourism based on the
new mobilities paradigm has been explored. Taking road travel on the Sichuan-Tibet …

Having made the transition from a life-time acquired skill to something acquired by the
casual tourist through a professional operator, outdoor 'adventure'tourism is now one of the …

This chapter considers walking tourism as an agent facilitating formation of a community
concerned with sustainability, and thus demanding more environmentally aware tourism …

Purpose To the best of the author's knowledge, this study, among the first of its kind, aims to
offer a preliminary exploration of the “city walk” travel model in the context of China …

This article aims to illuminate the overlooked entanglement of space, material practices,
affects, and cognitive work emplaced in walking tourism. Walking as a tourism activity is …

Walking is fundamental and prevalent in all tourist settings. As the most popular activity in
natural spaces and managed outdoor recreation areas, it receives less attention in …

This paper uses 'walk-along'interviewing to investigate embodied experiences of walking on
the South Downs Way, a long-distance trail in southern England. Using a qualitative …

Hong Kong's retrocession to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 initiated intense interest in cultural
heritage on the part of divergently positioned actors, including activists, the state, and …