events: July 2012
Living, Visiting and Promoting the Rural Tourism Experience
IRSA WORLD CONGRESS SESSION PROPOSAL FORM
29th July - 4th August 2012 Lisbon (PT)
The tourism experience has received increasing attention in destination planning and marketing, being recognized as a central aspect of both tourist demand and of change in village life. Simultaneously, tourism is often presented as fostering local rural development. Both the understanding of the rural tourism experience and of the contributions of tourism to rural development require multiple and multi-disciplinary approaches of analysis.
The aims of this Working Session are:
- To analyze the rural tourism experience in its nature, features, dimensions and determinants as lived by tourists, residents and hosts;
- To assess what and how local resources (environmental, human, social, cultural, economic, etc) are allocated and managed to contribute both to the tourism experience and to sustainable rural development;
- To address the relevance of the ‘overall tourism experience’ as perceived by residents and tourists as well as promoted by hosts, as well as the kind of approaches mobilized to promote such an experience.
Papers are invited that offer both conceptual reflections on these (or related) topics as well as empirically derived insights.
For more information please contact elisabethk@ua.pt or elisa@ua.pt
