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Transportation Systems for Tourism

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Rail tourism is heterogeneous and attractive to all types of customers such as young people, adults, retired, families, railway enthusiasts, and domestic and international tourists, and the opportunities to promote and enjoy leisure by rail are several. Some of these include trains as hotels and unique rail tour packages. Digital technologies provide interesting services for tourists who can enjoy on board of trains real museum visits. The deployment of high-speed lines all over the world also has had an impact on those categories of tourists that prefer to reach a given destination quickly.

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Acknowledgements

Authors would like to thank the students of the University of Naples Federico II Mr Antonio Conventi and Miss Maria Ciano for having contributed to the development of this chapter during their preparation of the Master degree dissertation on rail infrastructures and their aspects connected with resilience.

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  1. Kerala Institute of Tourism and Travel Studies (KITTS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

    M. R. Dileep

  2. Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Francesca Pagliara

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Dileep, M.R., Pagliara, F. (2023). Rail Tourism. In: Transportation Systems for Tourism. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22127-9_10

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