Green Infrastructure and Slow Tourism: A Methodological Approach for Mining Heritage Accessibility in the Sulcis-Iglesiente Bioregion (Sardinia, Italy)

Mara Ladu (), Silvia Battino, Ginevra Balletto and Ainhoa Amaro García
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Mara Ladu: Department of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Silvia Battino: Department of Economics and Business Management, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Ginevra Balletto: Department of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Ainhoa Amaro García: Instituto Universitario de Turismo y Desarrollo Económico y Sostenible, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35001 Las Palmas, Spain

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 5, 1-24

Abstract: In European countries many measures are carried out to improve the disadvantaged conditions and socio-economic marginality of rural areas in comparison with central places. These conditions also affect the quality of travel for visitors and tourists. Therefore, in response to a ‘new’ tourist demand, motivated also by the restrictions following the spread of the COVID-19 virus in recent years, the institutions and the different local actors are working more incisively to improve rural areas. The rural tourism services offer, combined with the Green Infrastructure (GI) project, at different scales—from local to regional—interesting territorial development strategies to achieve the Agenda 2030 objectives. This contribution considers the Sulcis-Iglesiente-Guspinese area, in the Sardinia Region (IT), as a case study. In this area, the landscape context is marked by past mining activity, and the project of a path of historical, cultural, and religious values has proven to be an activator of regenerative processes, in environmental, social, and economic terms. The present study proposes a methodological approach to develop an index (FI—feasibility index) to assess the feasibility of the Stop Places (SPs) project along a horse trail to integrate the current slow mobility of bicycles and pedestrians in the bioregion.

Keywords: green infrastructures; slow tourism; rural tourism; bioregion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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