River Tourism
Rivers are fascinating places, exhibiting both natural charm and usefulness for a vast array of human activities. Throughout history, rivers have been used as transport routes, as food sources and in more recent times as places to visit and play. Surprisingly, there has been scant recognition...
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| Định dạng: | Sách |
| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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CABI
2014
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/36792 |
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| Thư viện lưu trữ: | Thư viện Trường Đại học Đà Lạt |
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| Tóm tắt: | Rivers are fascinating places, exhibiting both natural charm and usefulness for
a vast array of human activities. Throughout history, rivers have been used as
transport routes, as food sources and in more recent times as places to visit and
play. Surprisingly, there has been scant recognition of the role of rivers in the
tourism industry, a gap which this book was written to fill. In planning this
book, Malcolm and I envisaged an end result that would examine the role of
rivers as a tourism resource and that would also identify significant issues and
trends that later authors may wish to pursue. We hope that this objective has
been realized, even if only in part.
When discussing how the book would be structured, we were mindful of
the need for a text that not only examined a range of river tourism-related
issues, many of which are quite diverse, but also one that went beyond the
often shallow background discussions of significant natural resources in the
context of tourism to provide the reader with a deeper knowledge of aspects of
the underlying science of rivers. To this end, the first chapter spends some time
examining the hydrological cycle and basic river biology. We strongly believe
that for tourism planners, administrators, scholars and students it is difficult to
develop informed views on issues such as suitable planning strategies, sustainability and carrying capacity in the absence of at least a basic understanding of
these more science-related elements. We hope that we have been able to
achieve this objective along with providing relevant and timely information on
existing river tourism. |
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