Rural Tourism and Recreation:Principles to Practice

This book explicitly makes an attempt to analyze the two distinct intellectual traditions and odd combination viz. rural development (a hybrid of rural sociology and human spatial geography) and tourism, a feat the authors achieved remarkably well. The authors, Lesley Roberts and Derek Hall, are associated with Leisure and Tourism Management Department, Scottish Agricultural College in Ayr. Shire. It is a jointly authored book; they have included numerous short invited contributions from a wide range of contributors from Europe.