Alternative forms of sustainable development: the case of thermal tourism
| Autor: | Delitheou Vasiliki, Georgakopoulou Stavroula |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Sustainable development
biology Natural resource economics Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Euros Management Monitoring Policy and Law biology.organism_classification Natural resource Natural (archaeology) Cultural heritage Quality (business) Business Alternative tourism Tourism media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development. 19:367 |
| ISSN: | 1478-7466 1474-6778 |
| DOI: | 10.1504/ijesd.2020.110637 |
| Popis: | Thermal tourism is a special form of providing tourist services at special facilities that use recognised thermal natural resources. Thermal tourism blooms in Europe with pioneer country Germany. There are 1,400 developed bathing sites in Europe, visited by millions of patients from all over the world. This industry employs about 750,000 people and has an annual turnover of approximately 45 billion euros. In Greece, thermal tourism is an important part of the country's cultural heritage and not only because Greece is one of the richest countries in natural sources with excellent quality water. Despite the fact that Greece is the first country in Europe in the quality and uniqueness of natural thermal resources, its thermal tourism is declining. Furthermore, in this article, efforts will be made to identify the causes that contribute to the reduction of thermal tourism, as well as to draw some conclusions with a view to improving and sustaining the thermal tourism. |
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