Relational Tourism : challenges and capabilities

2009

preferences of the tourist consumer, in the last three decades, have brought to the birth of new ways of interpreting the tourism phenomenon, among these we highlight the Relational Tourism, phenomenon that can be perceived as human-scale tourism, clearly based on territorial, cultural and environmental constraints that include travel formats such as rural tourism, cultural tourism, farm tourism, environmental tourism, tourism, outdoor activity and many new ways, which have shown an important quantitative growth of Relational Tourism demands in Europe and internationally in the last decades, offering an alternative and increasingly more appreciated tourism to the traditional depersonalized …