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
Researchers and students of leisure and tourism.
1. Introducing River Tourism: Physical, Ecological and Human Aspects
2. River Tourism in the South Asian Subcontinent
3. River-Based Tourism in the United States: Tourism and Recreation on the Colorado and Mississippi Rivers
4. The Mekong: Developing a New Tourism Region
5. River Tourism: Sailing the Nile
6. European Waterways as a Source of Leisure and Recreation
7. The Yangzi River Tourism Zone
8. Fishing the Big Rivers’ in Australia’s Northern Territory: Market diversification for the Daly River
9. The Amazon: A River Tourism Frontier
10. River Heritage - The Murray Darling River
11. Whitewater Tourism
12. Basin-Based Governance for Integrated Water Resources Management: Prospects and Challenges
13. Sustainable Water Resources and Water Security
14. ‘The River City'? Conflicts in the Development of a Tourism Destination Brand for Brisbane
15. Conclusions and Challenges
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...