The impact of rural tourism on land use. The case of Tuscany

Filippo Randelli () and Federico Martellozzo
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Federico Martellozzo: Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa

Working Papers - Economics from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa

Abstract: Rural tourism (RT) has grown in many rural regions worldwide and today it is a stable driver of rural development. In this paper we argue that the growth of RT has to be totally divergent from seaside tourism development that tends to create holiday resorts and artificial villages with no identity. To built-up new houses in order to increase accommodation facilities in rural areas could have a twofold negative effect: compromise the beauty of the landscape, a basic local resource, and develop a rural mass tourism. In order to monitor the impact of RT on land use we propose to analyse the development of new building areas in the countryside using a GIS (Geographical Information System) approach. The main source of data for this analysis are the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) of the European Union. The analytical model will be applied to the case of Tuscany.

Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2018
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