Garden tourism /
By: Benfield, Richard W.
Publisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012Description: ix, 257 p. : ill. (some coloured) ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780641959 (pbk.); 9781780641959:; 1780641958 (pbk.).Subject(s): Garden tours -- Tourism | Garden tours | Garden tours -- Case studiesDDC classification: 338.4791| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographic references and index.
Preface -- 1 : introduction -- 2 : a history of garden tourism -- 3 : gardening and gardens today -- 4 : a world garden survey -- 5 : the multiple roles of gardens and the importance of indoor flower festivals -- 6 : outdoor garden festivals -- 7 : managing the garden -- 8 : tourists to gardens and tourists in the garden : motivators and enablers -- 9 : problems and issues in gardens today -- 10 : reflections on the future of garden tourism -- bilbliography -- Index.
More people visit gardens than go to Disneyland and Disneyworld combined, & more than visit Las Vegas annually, making it one of the largest retail sectors in the tourism market. 'Garden Tourism' explores the diverse & huge phenomena of garden tourism.