Theoretical approach to Api-tourism routes as a paradigm of sustainable and regenerative rural development. Journal of Apicultural Research
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2022
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Taylor y Francis
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Routes in general, including agritourism routes focused on beekeeping, activate the socioeconomic and sustainable development of the territories. A route is a unit of analysis that acts as a cluster, dynamizing several tourist centers, services, resources, and attractions while reducing environmental impacts. These synergies are much needed in the poorest and most depopulated rural areas. However, these areas, generally of high ecological and landscape value require a type of tourist activity with controlled impacts that favors the regeneration of the social and natural environment. To delve into all this, a pioneering theoretical analysis of Api-tourism and its routes was carried out. These premises and underlying models were contrasted deductively through the exploitation of secondary sources and empirically during fieldwork on “honey routes”, as case studies. It is concluded that Api-tourism routes are an emerging model of tourism activity and a significant representation of the new model of regenerative tourism.
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Travel routes have played an important role in intercultural communication, trade, and the prosperity of people. Recently and hand in hand with the
development of mass tourism, tourist routes have become a factor in socio-economic development. Especially in Europe, as an alternative to sun and
beach tourism, cultural tourist routes in the most depopulated inland regions have been seen as an opportunity for endogenous development, be it cultural, rural, or related to agri-food, nature, or agritourism. Thus, it is highlighted here that Api-tourism and the routes connected to beekeeping
as a motivational factor generate a triple benefit, in terms of population, culture, and environmental sustainability, whilst complying with the carrying
capacity of the destination, which with the application of primary processes and services of an ecological character, and even of a circular economy,
which will all be discussed below, represents a new paradigm of tourism for development one that goes beyond sustainable tourism, towards deliberate practices of protection and improvement of the environment.
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Izquierdo-Gascón, M., & Rubio-Gil, Á. (2022). Theoretical approach to Api-tourism routes as a paradigm of sustainable and regenerative rural development. Journal of Apicultural Research, Taylor y Francis, 62(4), 751-766.
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