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Title: | The relationships between cycle tourism and sustainable transport in the UK |
Authors: | Weed, M Bull, C Brown, M Dowse, S Lovell, J Mansfield, L Wellard, I |
Keywords: | Cycling;Cycle tourism;Sustainable transport;Environment;Meta-analysis |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | Cognizant Communication Corporation |
Citation: | Tourism Review International, 18(1- 2): 99 - 103, (2014) |
Abstract: | The use of both sustainable transport outcomes and tourism impacts as a mixed justification for investment in cycling infrastructure has led to the two often being seen as synonymous. The environmentally friendly credentials of cycle tourism are predicated on a conceptualization of cycle tourism in which cycling as a form of transport supplants other energy-consuming and -polluting forms of transport within the tourism trip. However, using a recent meta-analysis of UK data, this research note shows that even when the environmental costs of major cycling events are excluded, in absolute terms recreational cycle tourism across its full range of forms in the UK still generates considerable motorized transport use. But, the use of counterfactual models shows that in relative terms, on average across all its forms, recreational cycle tourism in the UK reduces the use of motorized transport to get to and from destinations by 12.2% and reduces motorized transport use at destinations by 7.6%. Consequently, recreational cycle tourism in the UK does have a positive sustainable transport outcome, but this is far smaller than is often visualized. |
URI: | http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/tri/2014/00000018/00000001/art00008?token=00591bfa2f1f2d7fd2441333c4a2f7a6c6a593b47465d7d76343e4f6d62222c227e3725303329762044bf81e4 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10888 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3727/154427214X13990420684644 |
ISSN: | 1544-2721 1943-4421 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers |
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