Sustainability of Rural Tourism and Promotion of Local Development

This Special Issue contains articles include, but not limited to, empirical, analytical, or design-oriented approaches to the following topics:

- Monitoring of carrying capacity and mechanisms for managing tourist flows in rural areas;

- Systems and tools to measure the social, economic, and environmental sustainability of rural tourism;

- Integration between public tourism policies and private strategies in the promotion and implementation of sustainable practices;

- Policies for promoting public participation in the planning and development of sustainable rural tourism;

- The impacts of tourism on traditional agricultural activities;

- Identity enhancement of the territory and its productions;

- "Good practices" in the implementation of rural tourism sustainability.