Rural tourism experiences. Land, sense and experience-scapes in quest of new tourist spaces and sustainable community development
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: The special issue on "Rural tourism experiences" is one outcome of the International Conference on Rural Tourism entitled "Re-inventing rural tourism and the rural tourism experience -Conserving, innovating and co-creating for sustainability" that took place in early September 2013 at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.The conference was a milestone at the end of a 3-years research project undertaken in 3 Portuguese villages (Favaios, Janeiro de Cima and Linhares da Beira), with the collaboration of 15 researches from 7 distinct Portuguese institutions, 4 research assistants and 5 master students at the University of Aveiro, and one international consultant (Bernard Lane), who critically discussed with us and confronted findings with those from diverse studies in other contexts and parts of the world.The relatively broad interest and active participation in this "home-made", specifically themed event, not integrated in any large-scale association, network or professional organization of continuously held and internationally acknowledged conferences in the tourism or rural development field, confirms the existence of a dynamic research community addressing rural tourism issues from very distinct perspectives, and analyzing them in quite distinct contexts.After a process of double (sometimes triple) blind reviewing, we were very pleased about the final result, with 168 authors contributing to 80 accepted presentations.At the Conference, 85 authors contributed to the debate with 62 paper and 17 poster presentations, reporting research from 23 countries (book of abstracts available from-http://cms.ua.pt/orte/sites/default/ files/book_abstracts_27ago.pdf).Discussions at the conference, together with very interesting keynote presentations (by Bernard Lane, Keith Halfacree,
Institution: University of Aveiro
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1574098162