Economics and Management of Geotourism (eBook)

Vitor Braga, António Duarte, Carla Susana Marques (Herausgeber)

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2022 | 1st ed. 2022
XII, 124 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-89839-7 (ISBN)

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This book covers all aspects of the economics and management of geotourism, an increasingly important sector of nature tourism that focuses on the geology and landscape of different territories, providing a pleasurable and educational tourist experience. Geotourism is a sustainable form of tourism that has the potential to deliver significant benefits to host communities. To date, however, geotourism has been examined primarily from the natural sciences perspective, to the detriment of issues related to local social and economic impacts, inter-organizational collaboration, tourist responses, and community participation. This book therefore fills a major gap in the literature. While a key focus is the impacts of geotourism on economic and social development processes and the quality of life of local populations, detailed attention is also devoted to topics such as geopark and geosystem management, innovative and entrepreneurial strategies in geotourism, and territorial marketing. In addition, readers will gain a clear understanding of the extent to which the opportunities and challenges facing geotourism reflect current trends in the tourist industry as a whole. 

Vitor Braga, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic of Porto. He joined the school in 1999 and is currently head of the Business Sciences Department and the director of the Centre for Innovation and Research on Business Sciences and Information Systems. His main research interests relate to entrepreneurship (cooperation, internationalization, and innovation) with published research in many scientific journals and presented more than 100 papers, in this field, at international conferences.

António Duarte is an invited lecturer at the School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal. Between 2000 and 2008 he was a member of the technical team of LEADER Local Action Group at ADRIMAG. In 2008, he was nominated Executive Coordinator of Arouca UNESCO Global Geopark and he became an expert and evaluator for UNESCO Global Geoparks in 2016. His research interests include geoparks and geotourism with a focus on local and regional development and territories. 

Carla Susana Marques is Assistant Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal. Her PhD in Management Science (UTAD) evaluated Portuguese industrial firms' innovation strategies. Currently she coordinates the Innovation, Markets, and Organization research group at UTAD's Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies. Her research on innovation and entrepreneurship has been presented at numerous international conferences and published in international journals.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management
• Reihe/Serie: Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 124 p. 33 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Cultural tourism • economics of geotourism • Ecotourism • Entrepreneurial ecosystems • geo-development • Geological Heritage • Geoparks • Geosites • geosystem management • Geotourism • landscape tourism • management of geotourism • marketing of geotourism • Nature Tourism
• ISBN-10: 3-030-89839-3 / 3030898393
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-89839-7 / 9783030898397