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Tourism trails as tools for cross-border integration:A best practice case study of the Vennbahn cycling route
This paper evaluates which processes determine the leverage of cycling tourism trails for mainstreaming cross-border contact and 'soft' region-building. Reflecting on the Vennbahn between Germany, Belgium and Luxemburg, the paper shows that the influence of routes on cross border integration depends on the trail's strength as a tourism product, its cross-border institutionalization, and the geography and scale of the trail and the involved destinations. Tourism trails could contribute to cross-border integration, vindicating the substantial money spent on such projects in INTERREG programmes. However, border-related barriers remain robust even for tourism projects that are best practices of cross-border cooperation. As such, there is an unfulfilled potential of tourism trails in their contribution to cross-border communication and social cohesion in many European borderlands.
Tourism trails as tools for cross-border integration:A best practice case study of the Vennbahn cycling route
This paper evaluates which processes determine the leverage of cycling tourism trails for mainstreaming cross-border contact and 'soft' region-building. Reflecting on the Vennbahn between Germany, Belgium and Luxemburg, the paper shows that the influence of routes on cross border integration depends on the trail's strength as a tourism product, its cross-border institutionalization, and the geography and scale of the trail and the involved destinations. Tourism trails could contribute to cross-border integration, vindicating the substantial money spent on such projects in INTERREG programmes. However, border-related barriers remain robust even for tourism projects that are best practices of cross-border cooperation. As such, there is an unfulfilled potential of tourism trails in their contribution to cross-border communication and social cohesion in many European borderlands.
Tourism trails as tools for cross-border integration:A best practice case study of the Vennbahn cycling route
Stoffelen, Arie (author)
2018-11-01
Stoffelen , A 2018 , ' Tourism trails as tools for cross-border integration : A best practice case study of the Vennbahn cycling route ' , Annals of Tourism Research , vol. 73 , pp. 91-102 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2018.09.008
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Electronic Resource
English
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