ABSTRACT
With the current rise of metropolitan regions as a present location and driver of the development of rural tourism, agritourism, food tourism and nature tourism, there is a need to analyse the major economic, social, political and managerial aspects of these types of tourism which occur within the rural-urban fringe.
This book establishes a current inventory and appropriate future selection of commuter belt tourism products for metropolitan areas. It also explains how public and private resources can be combined to achieve synergistic effects in tourism promotion and provides a structural analysis for the proper management of tourist organisations in metropolitan areas. Additionally, there is insight into how the development of metropolitan areas affects rural tourism and agritourism within broader social, economic and environmental relations. The issue of the growth of metropolitan areas, which is a complex and multifaceted challenge, is elaborated on with diverse examples in Poland and further afield.
This is valuable reading for students, researchers and academics of tourism, as well as rural and urban studies, business management, farm management, and leisure studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|46 pages
Metropolisation and suburban tourism
chapter 3|3 pages
Case study
part II|79 pages
New paradigms and opportunities for metropolitan commuter belt tourism
part III|39 pages
Natural resources in metropolitan and submetropolitan areas
part IV|65 pages
Types of tourism and tourism segments in the metropolitan commuter belt
part V|73 pages
Portfolio offer for tourism in submetropolitan areas