Challenges Detection and Mitigation for Sustainable Rural Tourism
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 192
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Interests: environmental sciences; ecology; remote sensing; geological science and technology; satellite imagery analysis; cultural heritage site management
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Interests: urban planning; spatial analysis; computational intelligence; e-learning; environment; sustainable development; sustainability; mapping; urban sustainability; modeling; simulation
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Dear Colleagues,
Rural tourism can be defined as a type of activities that a visitor can enjoy featuring a wide range of products mostly linked to nature-based activities. Generally, rural tourism activities take place in non-urban (rural) areas with specified characteristics such as low population density, agriculture and forestry landscape, and traditional lifestyle. This type of tourism includes rural lifestyle tourism, rural cultural and heritage tourism, rural health tourism, rural active tourism, scenic landscapes, traditional crafts, and rural agro-tourism. From an economic point of view, rural tourism brings numerous benefits to tourists and rural communities, in particular, diversification of farm income, job creation, and retention of services in rural areas, thus preventing depopulation. However, negative consequences can occur, such as physical damage to ecosystems caused by too many visitors and pressure on local infrastructure. Indeed, the EU strongly supports the tourism sector and the sustainable principles of rural tourism to reduce energy consumption, waste, water consumption, and pollution and meet the increasing demand for sustainable tourism. Rural tourism can face challenges such as inadequate transport, water and sewage capacity, depopulation, etc.. Recently, up-to-date scientific data and equipment, such as remote sensing techniques, GIS tools, in situ measurements, engineering models, etc., played a significant role in the field of rural tourism challenges detection and mitigation. This Special Issue encourages scientists that are interested in using new technologies to balance rural tourism needs, the economic situation, and achieving good environmental biodiversity to publish articles. In addition, the scientific articles should lead to a developmental strategy to enable a rural community to grow, achieve sustainable rural tourism development, and preserve the natural environment. In general, this Special Issue is interested in, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Detection of rural tourism risks and challenges.
- Proposed ideas for rural tourism region development and enhancement.
- Human (land use changes) and natural (climate change) risks to rural tourism.
- Rural tourism risk mitigation and adaptation based on the advantages of new technology.
- Proposed plans for sustainable rural tourism.
- Suggested new criteria to the formal criteria of rural tourism.
- Adding new suggested areas to the list of rural tourism regions.
Dr. Abdelaziz Elfadaly
Prof. Dr. Beniamino Murgante
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing techniques
- in situ measurements
- GIS tools
- geospatial statistics
- land use changes
- nature tourism
- agritourism
- ecotourism
- challenges
- rural tourism sustainability
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