Metropolitan Commuter Belt Tourism

Investigating metropolitan regions as a present location and driver of the development of rural tourism, agritourism, food tourism and nature tourism, this book analyses the major economic, social, political and managerial aspects of these types of tourism which occur within the rural-urban fringe. This book establishes a current inventory and appropriate future selection of rural tourism, agritourism, food tourism and nature tourism products for metropolitan areas. It also explains how public and private resources can be combined to achieve synergy effects in tourism promotion and provides a structural analysis for the proper management of tourist organisations in metropolitan areas.