This book identifies opportunities and challenges for wine tourism and landscapes, illustrating how national and international tourism economics could support regional, national, or international policy establishment and improve territorial sustainability. It does not just focus on wine tourism and how it can contribute to sustainable economic development, it also presents an analysis of the importance of wine landscapes and natural and cultural heritage associated to it. Also, it evaluates how the actual challenges and opportunities could impact on wine landscapes, influencing positively and negatively tourism and also the development of local and regional areas.The book discusses how wine tourism creates multiple opportunities for local and regional sustainable development. It signals the numerous possibilities for the reduction of inequalities between territories of high and low density, the economic involvement of the communities, the creation of work and the increase in local employability, as well as the promotion of visitor and resident well-being. On the other hand, the book discusses the actual challenges, including risks that could endanger the wine landscapes, such as climate change, industrialization, loss of traditional practices, globalization, massification, and gaps in territorial planning and management, among others.

This book identifies opportunities and challenges for wine tourism and landscapes, illustrating how national and international tourism economics could support regional, national, or international policy establishment and improve territorial sustainability. It does not just focus on wine tourism and how it can contribute to sustainable economic development, it also presents an analysis of the importance of wine landscapes and natural and cultural heritage associated to it. Also, it evaluates how the actual challenges and opportunities could impact on wine landscapes, influencing positively and negatively tourism and also the development of local and regional areas.The book discusses how wine tourism creates multiple opportunities for local and regional sustainable development. It signals the numerous possibilities for the reduction of inequalities between territories of high and low density, the economic involvement of the communities, the creation of work and the increase in local employability, as well as the promotion of visitor and resident well-being. On the other hand, the book discusses the actual challenges, including risks that could endanger the wine landscapes, such as climate change, industrialization, loss of traditional practices, globalization, massification, and gaps in territorial planning and management, among others.

This book identifies opportunities and challenges for wine tourism and landscapes, illustrating how national and international tourism economics could support regional, national, or international policy establishment and improve territorial sustainability. It does not just focus on wine tourism and how it can contribute to sustainable economic development, it also presents an analysis of the importance of wine landscapes and natural and cultural heritage associated to it. Also, it evaluates how the actual challenges and opportunities could impact on wine landscapes, influencing positively and negatively tourism and also the development of local and regional areas.The book discusses how wine tourism creates multiple opportunities for local and regional sustainable development. It signals the numerous possibilities for the reduction of inequalities between territories of high and low density, the economic involvement of the communities, the creation of work and the increase in local employability, as well as the promotion of visitor and resident well-being. On the other hand, the book discusses the actual challenges, including risks that could endanger the wine landscapes, such as climate change, industrialization, loss of traditional practices, globalization, massification, and gaps in territorial planning and management, among others.