River TourismBruce Prideaux, Malcolm Cooper Rivers constitute a major tourism resource, providing spectacular settings, recreation facilities, a means of transport, a sense of heritage and adventure, and links with the environment and natural world. River tourism accounts for a significant proportion of the world's tourism consumption, with activities such as Nile cruises and rafting holidays making it an economically important area of tourism demanding in-depth analysis. This book explores river tourism from a range of perspectives including uses, heritage, management, environmental concerns, and marketing. |
Contents
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2 River Tourism in the South Asian Subcontinent | 23 |
Tourism and Recreation on the Colorado and Mississippi Rivers | 41 |
Developing a New Tourism Region | 55 |
Sailing the Nile | 74 |
6 European Waterways as a Source of Leisure and Recreation | 95 |
7 The Yangzi River Tourism Zone | 117 |
Market Diversification for the Daly River | 131 |
a River Tourism Frontier | 147 |
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