The Challenge of Tourism in Terraced Landscapes

Terkenli, Theano S.; Castiglioni, Benedetta; Cisani, Margherita

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96815-5_18

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“…This is often due to the landscape's unique, spectacular or otherwise attractive and interesting character. There is also ample scientific evidence pointing to the great variability and cultural contingency in landscape visitor perception, preference and appreciation by viewers, users and visitors [10,[14][15][16][17][18][19]. This variability, character and significance of the landscape-visitor relationship, both geographically and historically, remains largely unexplored, especially regarding the role that the landscape plays in the tourist (and generally leisure or recreational) experience.…”

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Landscape and Tourism: European Expert Views on an Intricate Relationship

Terkenli

Skowronek

Georgoula

2021

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Although the centrality of landscape to tourism is unquestionable and already a broadly established scientific area of research, much remains to be explored and understood regarding their interrelatedness. The objective of this research was to investigate, analyze and assess notions and perceptions of the reciprocal relationship between the landscape and tourism through an electronic survey among European researchers and scientists of relevant and associated academic fields. This was achieved with the aid of an interview questionnaire survey, focusing on the experts’ (a) perceptions/understandings and visions of future optimization of the reciprocal relationship tourism–landscape, (b) their conceptualizations of landscapes of tourism, and 9c) their assessments of the prospects (opportunities) and challenges (threats) coming out of the close tourism–landscape relationship, both for the tourism industry and the local societies involved. Our findings point to an emergence of a definition for “landscapes of tourism”. The experts elaborated on the high significance of the tourism–landscape relationship, through well-balanced and realistic opinions vis-à-vis the positive and negative aspects of the researched relationship but leaning towards its negative aspects. Overall, the findings reveal significant social sensitivities, environmental concerns, support for the principles of sustainability, locality, participatory governance and a call for appropriate governmental planning.

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Landscape and Tourism: European Expert Views on an Intricate Relationship

Terkenli

Skowronek

Georgoula

2021

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“…However, to better understand the meaning of the European programme for the tourism sector it may be useful to introduce concepts such as "landscape" and "landscape experience" [9]- [14]. They enrich the definition of "heritage" that, in this perspective, could be perceived not only as an expression of human culture but also of human relations with the place in which he functions [15]- [18].…”

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“…the tourist landscapes and the supply side, i.e. the tourism landscapes [18]. It does not define a single tangible or intangible heritage element but rather the whole landscape resulting from a mix of environmental, historical, socioeconomic characteristics, i.e.…”

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Local Active Engagement as an Effective Tool for Sustainable Tourism Development: First Considerations From the European Cultural Routes Case

Meneghello¹,

Mingotto²

2020

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Over the last decade, Cultural Routes (CR) of the Council of Europe (CoE) have flourished as an interesting example of cultural tourism, proposing thematic a mix of natural and cultural heritage and facilitating outdoor ways to experience sustainable tourism practices. The European programme states the importance of partnering among private and public stakeholders in defining and managing the Route as a sustainable tourism product; in fact, most of the studies on CR examine their state of development and future strategies, starting from these partnerships and their ability to reach this goal. Recently, some scholars have been investigating CR capability in creating new models of participation in heritage with shifting interest in different players, i.e. local communities and tourists turning from passive recipients to engaged actors. The paper aims to further investigate the specific role of these actors in CR tourism processes and resulting social impacts. It represents a preliminary investigation originating from the findings of a pilot study commissioned in 2016 by the European Institute of Cultural Routes (EICR), aimed at developing a measurement and quality control tool to ensure sustainability of CR, starting from a group of seven selected CR. In particular, this study investigates those findings, focusing mainly on the contribution of communities and tourists in tourism processes. Additional surveys and semistructured interviews with CR managers have been conducted to better identify forms of participation in decisions, product design, and tourism practices. Considerations about engagement effectiveness in relation to typology of actors, interactions, and specific phases of the management process, as well as observed social benefits, are among the key findings.

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“…Terracing can increase arable land and agricultural production [3,4] and contribute to soil and water conservation [5,6] by changing the local topography of slopes and their corresponding water flow process [7] and soil properties [8]. The artificially terraced landscapes that have been developed widely around the world [2,9] can enhance biodiversity and landscape diversity [10,11] and provide aesthetic, cultural, and tourism landscape value [12][13][14]. However, localised movement and erosion are likely to occur on terraced fields due to steep ridges, as manifested by the micro-landforms of terrace damages, including collapse and sinkholes [15][16][17][18].…”

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“…J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10, x FOR PEER REVIEW 2 of 19 versity and landscape diversity [10,11] and provide aesthetic, cultural, and tourism landscape value [12][13][14]. However, localised movement and erosion are likely to occur on terraced fields due to steep ridges, as manifested by the micro-landforms of terrace damages, including collapse and sinkholes [15][16][17][18].…”

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OBIA-Based Extraction of Artificial Terrace Damages in the Loess Plateau of China from UAV Photogrammetry

Fang

Zhu

et al. 2021

IJGI

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Terraces, which are typical artificial landforms found around world, are of great importance for agricultural production and soil and water conservation. However, due to the lack of maintenance, terrace damages often occur and affect the local flow process, which will influence soil erosion. Automatic high-accuracy mapping of terrace damages is the basis of monitoring and related studies. Researchers have achieved artificial terrace damage mapping mainly via manual field investigation, but an automatic method is still lacking. In this study, given the success of high-resolution unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry and object-based image analysis (OBIA) for image processing tasks, an integrated framework based on OBIA and UAV photogrammetry is proposed for terrace damage mapping. The Pujiawa terrace in the Loess Plateau of China was selected as the study area. Firstly, the segmentation process was optimised by considering the spectral features and the terrains and corresponding textures obtained from high-resolution images and digital surface models. The feature selection was implemented via correlation analysis, and the optimised segmentation parameter was achieved using the estimation of scale parameter algorithm. Then, a supervised k-nearest neighbourhood classifier was used to identify the terrace damages in the segmented objects, and additional geometric features at the object level were considered for classification. The comparison with the ground truth, as delineated by the image and field survey, showed that proposed classification can be adequately performed. The F-measures of extraction on three terrace damages were 92.07% (terrace sinkhole), 81.95% (ridge sinkhole), and 85.17% (collapse), and the Kappa coefficient was 85.34%. Finally, the potential application and spatial distribution of the terrace damages in this study were determined. We believe that this work can provide a credible framework for mapping terrace damages in the Loess Plateau of China.

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The Challenge of Tourism in Terraced Landscapes

Cited by 13 publications

References 16 publications

Landscape and Tourism: European Expert Views on an Intricate Relationship

Landscape and Tourism: European Expert Views on an Intricate Relationship

Local Active Engagement as an Effective Tool for Sustainable Tourism Development: First Considerations From the European Cultural Routes Case

OBIA-Based Extraction of Artificial Terrace Damages in the Loess Plateau of China from UAV Photogrammetry

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