Thoughts about proximity tourism as a strategy for local development

Authors

  • Inma Díaz Soria University of Toulouse - Le Mirail
  • Joan Carles Llurdés Coit
Keywords: tourism, proximity, local development, landscape, living place, recreational land use, methodology

Abstract

Tourism has traditionally been considered as the activity that allows living non-usual experiences in non-usual places. Since globalization of information facilitates the knowledge of remote territories, a tourist offer to closer and, at the same time, unknown places could improve the valorisation of usual environment, encouraging a development process. This paper introduces proximity tourism from a theoretical approach, through questioning key concepts and suggesting research tools in order to finally relate tourism and local development.

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Author Biographies

Inma Díaz Soria, University of Toulouse - Le Mirail

Joan Carles Llurdés Coit

How to Cite
Díaz Soria, I., & Llurdés Coit, J. C. (2013). Thoughts about proximity tourism as a strategy for local development. Cuadernos de Turismo, (32), 65–88. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/turismo/article/view/177421
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