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Rural Tourism

Rural Tourism In Scotland

Tourism by its very nature draws outside capital into the local community.

The promotion of rural tourism is often seen as a suitable form of economic development for rural areas, but for every positive argument put forwards in support of rural tourism there tends to be a counter argument.

Rural Tourism: positive and negative impacts and conflicts
Cairngorms, Scotland: A rural tourism case study

Tourism In The Cairngorms, Scotland

The Cairngorms officially became Scotland’s second National Park in September 2003.

Rural Tourism

Single land uses occur for many thousands of hectares of land, but, given that land is a finite resource, various organisations are endeavouring to use one area of land for more than one land use.