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: Received: 28 July 2024 / Approved: 29 July 2024 / Online: 29 July 2024 (13:13:01 CEST)
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Dragan, A.; Crețan, R.; Terian, M. I. Landscapes of Watermills: A Rural Cultural Heritage Perspective in an East-Central European Context. Preprints2024, 2024072310. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2310.v1
Dragan, A.; Crețan, R.; Terian, M. I. Landscapes of Watermills: A Rural Cultural Heritage Perspective in an East-Central European Context. Preprints 2024, 2024072310. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2310.v1
Dragan, A.; Crețan, R.; Terian, M. I. Landscapes of Watermills: A Rural Cultural Heritage Perspective in an East-Central European Context. Preprints2024, 2024072310. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2310.v1
APA Style
Dragan, A., Crețan, R., & Terian, M. I. (2024). Landscapes of Watermills: A Rural Cultural Heritage Perspective in an East-Central European Context. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2310.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Dragan, A., Remus Crețan and Mădălina Ionela Terian. 2024 "Landscapes of Watermills: A Rural Cultural Heritage Perspective in an East-Central European Context" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2310.v1
Abstract
Recent studies in rural heritage tourism have highlighted that an evolutionary economic geography perspective could be helpful in determining whether cultural heritage tourism could stand as a branching-innovating trajectory. Its evolution can be understood by presenting specific mechanisms of layering, recombination and conversion that leads to path development. We contribute to rural heritage tourism by basing our study on perceptions of tourists and local officials on the Rudăria Watermills, Romania. Based on survey and interview data, we document the strengths and limits of local watermills for tourism and describe the entrepreneurial agents involved in path development. Our findings point to the important role played by a local NGO in developing a path for tourism for the watermills, as well as the active involvement of local authorities and other local cultural leaders for including the mills in national and international tourism circuits.
Keywords
watermills; rural heritage; rural tourism; Rudăria; Romania
Subject
Social Sciences, Geography, Planning and Development
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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
