Garden Tourism

NICHOLAS CATAHAN*, Richard Benfield

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Garden tourism is broadly defined as travel to cultivated grounds open to the public, appealing to a wide range of people, interests, needs, and expectations, offering diverse perceptions, experiences, and outcomes, such as meeting Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Garden tourism involves virtual, augmented, domestic, and international tourism experiences to engage in a destination with the moniker “garden” (Benfield 2013, 2021).

The attraction of gardens as a location for other tourism purposes and motivations has expanded the importance, significance, and evolution of gardens (Shapoval et al. 2020). Garden tourism is not only assisting in the vitality and viability of gardens and greenspace but, in many cases, enables them to serve their numerous multidimensional purposes and resultant, significant environmental, sociocultural, and economic outcomes (Catahan and Woodruffe-Burton 2019).

Research highlights yearly visitor numbers rising in the millions to destinations worldwide,...
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEncyclopedia of Tourism
EditorsJafar Jafari, Honggen Xiao
PublisherSpringer Cham
Pages1-2
Number of pages2
Edition2nd
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-01669-6
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-01669-6
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 29 Jul 2023

Keywords

  • Garden Tourism
  • Green Tourism
  • Heritage
  • Park Tourism
  • Placemaking
  • Sustainability

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