Sustainability of Rural Tourism and Promotion of Local Development

<p>This Special Issue contains articles include but not limited to empirical analytical or design-oriented approaches to the following topics:</p><p>·        Monitoring of carrying capacity and mechanisms for managing tourist flows in rural areas;</p><p>·        Systems and tools to measure the social economic and environmental sustainability of rural tourism;</p><p>·        Integration between public tourism policies and private strategies in the promotion and implementation of sustainable practices;</p><p>·        Policies for promoting public participation in the planning and development of sustainable rural tourism;</p><p>·        The impacts of tourism on traditional agricultural activities;</p><p>·        Identity enhancement of the territory and its productions;</p><p>·        Good practices in the implementation of rural tourism sustainability.</p>