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This PhD thesis aims at responding to the emerging need for theoretical and methodological deepening of the multiple relationships developed between tourism and landscape, attempting, on the one hand to provide an appropriate conceptualization of the term “tourism landscape” and, on the other hand, a methodological framework for its integrated analysis and evaluation. In order to achieve this aim, a deep bibliographic research was performed, exploring research paradigms from various disciplinary fields, such as spatial sciences, landscape ecology, environmental psychology and cultural geography. On the basis of these bibliographic references, a theoretical and methodological framework has been developed, built upon three key factors of the tourism landscape (contextual factors, landscape character and mental images). In order to apply and verify this framework, the case study of Lindos has been adopted. The main reason for which Lindos area has been chosen as a unit of analysis is that the landscape of Lindos belongs to the characteristic typology of the Aegean coastal landscape, where the protected image of traditional settlements paradoxically coexists with great landscape transformations due to tourism development. Research methods used include both those aiming at the acquisition and analysis of objective data based on expert-based techniques (such as remote sensing, statistical analysis of primary and secondary data, application of indicators) as well as those focusing on the acquisition and analysis of subjective data through a questionnaire-based survey from which primary data have been collected from a considerable number of tourists. Using these methods, in the first place it has been possible to draw significant results concerning the case study which have allowed formulating some suggestions for future landscape management; in the second place, from this study, general considerations about the limits and potentialities of an integrated research on tourism landscape have been emerged. |
