Creative Tourism and Sustainable Territories: Insights from Southern Europe

Creative Tourism and Sustainable Territories: Insights from Southern Europe examines the growth and development of this emerging and fast developing area of tourism practice, while assessing it’s impacts on sustainability and regional development. Examples are drawn from across Southern Europe with analysis of Creative Tourism practices in Portugal, Italy, Spain, Greece, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Slovenia.

Creative Tourism and Sustainable Territories features chapters from leading scholars that explore the definition and evolution of Creative Tourism, the roles played by urban and rural territories, the motivations and profiles of a creative tourist, best practices in Creative Tourism and contribution of festivals to Creative Tourism and territorial development providing an expansive study that will be of interest to researchers in Tourism Studies, Hospitality Studies, Sustainability, Economic Development and Cultural Industries, and Geography.

Paula Remoaldo is Full Professor of Geography at Department of Geography and at Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT), University of Minho, Portugal. She researches areas of ‪Geography of Tourism‬, ‪Regional and Local Development‬ and Health Geography.‬ She is author and editor of numerous books and of papers in high impact factor Journals.

Juliana Alves, Post Doc Degree, is Researcher at the Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT), University of Minho, Portugal. She researches in the areas of Sustainable Tourism Management, Creative Tourism, Geography, and Local and Regional Development.

Vítor Ribeiro is Assistant Professor at Department of Geography and Researcher at the Landscape, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT), University of Minho, Portugal. He researches in the areas of Transport Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Tourism and Regional and Local Development, Crime Geography and Geographical Education.