ABSTRACT
The author examines boundary lines as tourist attractions and shows how it is that borders prove interesting to people. Borders interest tourists as curiosities, symbolic elements, items of heritage, and sources of education and learning. The most attractive borders, ancient walls, and boundary curiosities have started to play more significant functional roles in tourism. Recent years have brought more and more examples of borders serving in the development of tourism. On the basis of them, new tourist places are created and the (open) border is able to act as a pole or line of growth, and become a brand around which planning, strategies, governance, and marketing all develop. In this chapter, special attention is focused on some aspects of attractiveness to tourism, i.e. border markings; border crossings; defensive fortifications; divided objects and attractions; border stories, narratives, events, and semantics; border trails and pathways; and special geographical points associated with non-political borders.
