A heritage interpretation-based itinerary to enhance tourist use of traditional rural buildings

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Leanza, Paola M ^a   Porto, Simona M C ^a   Sapienza, Vincenzo ^a   Cascone, Santi M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Building materials; Rural heritage; Rural tourism; Territorial marketing; Tourist itinerary

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HERITAGE; HERITAGE TOURISM; PLANNING METHOD; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST ATTRACTION;

ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84956631751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8010047     Document Type: Article

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