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Ecocultural Tourism

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Eco-cultural tourism; Ecocultural tourism experience; The ecocultural tourism

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It’s necessary to recognize that tourism and leisure visitors often take part in mixed portfolios of experiential activities that mix nature and culture, and these are not easily or exclusively classified.

Ecocultural tourism is considered a “concept in which ecological and cultural aspects of a landscape are combined to create a site for tourists” (Wallace and Russell 2004: 235). It is understood as a holistic approach in which communities articulate the cultural and ecological resources in the tourism fitment and increase notoriety associated with the values held by the territory, combining the patrimonial dimension, culture, and identity with the didactic dimension and citizen science. It considers sustainability and community participation crucial elements for the development of this form of tourism, regarding at the same time a necessary active involvement of local government in the...

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  1. Polytechnic Institute of Guarda, CITUR & CICS-NOVA, Guarda, Portugal

    Gonçalo Poeta Fernandes

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  1. London Metropolitan University, Guildhall Faculty of Business and Law London Metropolitan University, London, UK

    Samuel Idowu

  2. Cologne Business School, Ingolstadt, Germany

    René Schmidpeter

  3. College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Nicholas Capaldi

  4. International Training Centre of the IL, International Labor Organization, Turin, Italy

    Liangrong Zu

  5. Department of Economics, Society and Politics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy

    Mara Del Baldo

  6. Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Guarda, Portugal

    Rute Abreu

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  1. Mediterranean Research Center on Economics and Sustainable Development, Economics and Business Department, University of Almería, Almería, Spain

    Pedro Antonio Martín-Cervantes

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Fernandes, G.P. (2023). Ecocultural Tourism. In: Idowu, S., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_958-1

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