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Is heritage tourism a panacea for rural decline? A comparative study of the Camino de Santiago and the Canal de Castilla in Spain
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Materia
Despoblación
España
Camino de Santiago
St. James way
Spain
Depopulation
Clasificación UNESCO
5401 Geografía Económica
5404.02 Geografía Rural
5403.01 Geografía Cultural
Fecha de publicación
2023
Editor
Taylor and Francis
Citación
L.A. Hortelano Mínguez & J. Mansvelt Beck (2023) Is heritage tourism a panacea for rural decline? A comparative study of the Camino de Santiago and the Canal de Castilla in Spain, Journal of Heritage Tourism, 18:2, 224-242, DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2022.2159417
Resumen
[En] The aim of this article is to establish whether fostering rural tourism by reuse and promotion of heritage has been able to mitigate the demographic decline in a depopulating area of Spain. Two types of route-based tourism in the north-west of Castile are compared, namely the millenary pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela and the nineteenth-century Castile Canal. For three decades, public authorities have actively stimulated tourism along these routes in order to retain the population. The findings reveal that public-sector investments and promotion have contributed to the growth of tourism along both routes but have not stopped demographic decline. The lack of revitalisation of the countryside is the result of the preceding rural exodus that has destroyed village communities.
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1743-873X
DOI
10.1080/1743873X.2022.2159417
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