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Regenerating Landscape Through Slow Tourism: Insights from a Mediterranean Case Study
by
Luca Barbarossa
Luca Barbarossa * and
Viviana Pappalardo
Viviana Pappalardo
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2025, 17(15), 7005; https://doi.org/10.3390/su17157005 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 1 June 2025
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Revised: 16 July 2025
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Accepted: 28 July 2025
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Published: 1 August 2025
Abstract
The implementation of the trans-European tourist cycle route network “EuroVelo” is fostering new strategic importance for non-motorized mobility and the associated practice of cycling tourism. Indeed, slow tourism offers a pathway for the development of inland areas. The infrastructure supporting it, such as long-distance cycling and walking paths, can act as a vital connection, stimulating regeneration in peripheral territories by enhancing environmental and landscape assets, as well as preserving heritage, local identity, and culture. The regeneration of peri-urban landscapes through soft mobility is recognized as the cornerstone for accessibility to material and immaterial resources (including ecosystem services) for multiple categories of users, including the most vulnerable, especially following the restoration of green-area systems and non-urbanized areas with degraded ecosystems. Considering the forthcoming implementation of the Magna Grecia cycling route, the southernmost segment of the “EuroVelo” network traversing three regions in southern Italy, this contribution briefly examines the necessity of defining new development policies to effectively integrate sustainable slow tourism with the enhancement of environmental and landscape values in the coastal areas along the route. Specifically, this case study focuses on a coastal stretch characterized by significant morphological and environmental features and notable landscapes interwoven with densely built environments. In this area, environmental and landscape values face considerable threats from scattered, irregular, low-density settlements, abandoned sites, and other inappropriate constructions along the coastline.
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Barbarossa, L.; Pappalardo, V.
Regenerating Landscape Through Slow Tourism: Insights from a Mediterranean Case Study. Sustainability 2025, 17, 7005.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su17157005
AMA Style
Barbarossa L, Pappalardo V.
Regenerating Landscape Through Slow Tourism: Insights from a Mediterranean Case Study. Sustainability. 2025; 17(15):7005.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su17157005
Chicago/Turabian Style
Barbarossa, Luca, and Viviana Pappalardo.
2025. "Regenerating Landscape Through Slow Tourism: Insights from a Mediterranean Case Study" Sustainability 17, no. 15: 7005.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su17157005
APA Style
Barbarossa, L., & Pappalardo, V.
(2025). Regenerating Landscape Through Slow Tourism: Insights from a Mediterranean Case Study. Sustainability, 17(15), 7005.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su17157005
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