Tourism Spatial Planning Across Rural–Urban Landscapes: Integrating Economic Growth, Heritage Conservation, and Ecosystem Services

Dear Colleagues,

The preservation of natural landscapes and cultural heritage has become fundamental to tourist development, and existing research has revealed that different aims and forms of landscape-related governance have produced different results in this field. The management of rural landscapes must combine these two aspects to promote multiple functions, thereby increasing the incomes of rural residents, reviving rural communities, protecting authentic rural environments, and raising awareness of rural and urban culture and identity.

This Special Issue emphasises the importance of landscape planning in urban and rural contexts and aims to introduce new theoretical and practical approaches to the subject, as well as potential solutions for issues regarding spatial planning for tourism in rural–urban landscapes that integrate economic growth, heritage conservation, and ecosystem services. Interested authors are encouraged to submit research papers revealing new insights into the concepts of landscape planning, heritage conservation, and ecosystem services in order to add value to the theoretical and practical aspects of these fields. The results of submitted studies should have different implications for tourism and landscape planning stakeholders, offering new perspectives on spatial planning for tourism in rural–urban contexts.

The goal of this Special Issue is to gather together papers (original research articles and review papers) that give insights about “Tourism Spatial Planning Across Rural–Urban Landscapes: Integrating Economic Growth, Heritage Conservation, and Ecosystem Services”.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:

• Natural tourism;
• Rural tourism;
• Urban landscape;
• Landscape planning.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Cristina Lupu
Prof. Dr. Donatella Privitera
Dr. Igor Trišić
Guest Editors

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