Systemic innovation areas for heritage-led rural regeneration: A multilevel repository of best practices

A Egusquiza, M Zubiaga, A Gandini, C de Luca… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper presents the result of the analysis of the data gathered from 20 Role Models (RM)
case studies regarding their successful heritage-led rural regeneration models. For the study …

Built environment and travel behavior in rural areas: A scientometric literature review

Y Ao, M Li, X Ding, J Zheng, S Xiao, S Deng… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
With the rise of global urbanization, the rural built environment has undergone tremendous
changes. As such, the rural built environment impacts on residents' daily travel behavior is …

Hiking tourism in Spain: origins, issues and transformations

MB Gómez-Martín - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
In Spain, hiking is an activity that involves following paths, which may or may not be
signposted, on foot, for sporting and cultural purposes. In the country as a whole, although …

Hiking in the COVID-19 era: Motivation and post-outbreak intentions

S Obradović, A Tešin - Journal of Sport & Tourism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Nature-based tourism has become one of the most popular leisure activities in the world.
Activities in nature-based sites bring tourists closer to nature and enable them to find out …

The relationship between user perception and preference of greenway trail characteristics in urban areas

J Lee, HS Lee, D Jeong, CS Shafer, J Chon - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Greenways provide multiple benefits for trail users' individual experiences based on users'
background environment and their perceptions of characteristics such as the trail width …

[PDF][PDF] The ways of Saint James in Trás-Os-Montes and Alto Douro as an example of soft tourism in rural areas

P Azevedo - European Countryside, 2021 - sciendo.com
The objective of this study is to demonstrate the importance of the existing Ways of Saint
James in Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, in the northern interior of Portugal, and that being …

Cultural routes in Kynouria of Arcadia: geospatial database design and software development for web mapping of the spatio-historical information

L Boukouvalas, G Grigorakakis, A Tsatsaris - Heritage, 2018 - mdpi.com
On the occasion of Kynouria and in order to achieve the protection and projection of
antiquities, a web-based model is proposed for highlighting individual monuments and …

User, public, and professional perceptions of the greenways in the Pearl River Delta, China

N Zhao, Z Liu, Y Lin, B De Meulder - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
The perception of greenways has been intensively investigated to understand the attitudes
of stakeholders and to study the preferences of greenway users. In the Pearl River Delta …

Landscape changes in rural areas: A focus on sardinian territory

M Balestrieri, A Ganciu - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
During the past decades the Italian rural landscape has undergone drastic alterations as a
result of complex and contradictory transformation dynamics. This paper aims to investigate …

Vocación turística de los itinerarios religiosos y perspectivas de desarrollo territorial: el Camino de Santu Jacu en Cerdeña (Italia)

G Mariotti, MV Camerada, S Lampreu… - Revista Galega de …, 2021 - revistas.usc.gal
For some years we have been witnessing the rediscovery of cultural and religious
itineraries, considered tools capable of promoting sustainable local development. Their …