Ideals and Realities of Tourism and Rural Sustainability

This book brings together scholars from diverse geographical settings to share their conceptual and empirical research findings on rural areas, rural poverty, rural resource capitalization and responsible tourism development. The book comprises short case studies, and pictorial and numerical illustrations of significant rural sociocultural, and environmental and economic phenomena related to rural poverty and sustainable capitalization of rural resources. The book highlights the interpretation of socially constructed world rural landscapes, rural poverty, and the performance of tourism in relation to rural sustainability enabling readers to gain an elaborative understanding of the unique characteristics and features of rural landscapes, the impact of rural poverty and poverty alleviation programs on rural areas, the status of capitalization of rural resources and the role of tourism on sustainable rural development.