from: Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd
Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9781863355124
ISBN number: 186335512X
Label: Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd
Manufacturer: Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd
Page Count: 114
Printing Date: October 01, 2002
Publishing house: Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd
Sale Popularity Level: 6081166
Studio: Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd
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Product Description:
This book presents research into the relationship between self-drive transport and tourism development. The quantitative significance of self-drive tourism is described and a variety of features of self-drive markets are explored. Our aim is to identify the diversity of research issues associated with self-drive tourism, and to present some models that can shed light on this diversity. It is interesting to note that despite 80 per cent of domestic tourists arriving at their destination by car, there is little discusion of drive tourism in the literature and almost none in the Australia context.
The book addresses this gap and contains a variety of contributions from Australian academic and industry-based researchers. Its genesis was research conducted by the Centre for Regional Tourism Research, a partnership between the Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Southern Cross University.
The research concentrates on the importance of self-drive tourism for regional Australia and is presented within the following frameworks:
* Self-drive tourism is complex and diverse, encompassing markets, locations, and impacts. Self-drive is overwhelmingly the most substantial component of the transport mix in Australian tourism.;
* Understanding self-drive tourism is particularly important for regional tourism destinations;
* Self-drive tourists are most usually domestic tourists, but there are key international markets represented as well; and
* Understanding the characteristics of self-drive tourists and the nature of visitor flows is central to the sustainable development of tourism in many destinations, and for the sucess of many tourism products.
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