Tourism, Territory and Sustainable Development: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Applications in Japan and Europe By João RomãoEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 154 Pages | ISBN : 9811304254 | 2.59 MB
Welfare rise, spatial mobility, and global information and communication channels (in particular, social media) have prompted the emergence of a specific booming and rapidly growing mobility industry all over the world, namely tourism. The tourist sector (including recreation and leisure activities) has turned into a complex contemporaneous socio-economic and geographic phenomenon, with a multiplicity of travel motives (e.g., entertainment, culture, relaxed life style, wellness, nature, etc.) and with a wide variety of impacts (e.g., urban- and regional-economic effects, crowding phenomena, environmental decay, etc.).