International Journal of Tourism Cities: Volume 4 Issue 3

Walking tourism in cities: introducing the special issue

Yael Ram, Colin Michael Hall

Making cities more walkable for tourists: a view from Singapore’s streets

Joan Henderson

The purpose of this paper is to explore the meanings of walkability and relevance for tourism in modern Asian cities, including barriers to its implementation. Particular…

Walking the public: re(visiting) Athens’s historical centre

Dimitra Kanellopoulou

Since the 1980s, planning public spaces for leisure walking is largely linked with economic and cultural objectives. Parallel to this tendency and the priorities of local…

The Walking Institute: a reflexive approach to tourism

Blake Morris

The purpose of this paper is to discuss Deveron Project’s (DP) Walking Institute, the only programme in the UK dedicated to commissioning artists to create walks. The author…

Assessment of factors influencing walkability in shopping streets of tourism cities: case of Bursa, Turkey

Tulin Vural Arslan, Selen Durak, Fatma Dizdar Gebesce, Belcin Balcik

The purpose of this paper is to identify the principal factors affecting walkability from the viewpoint of the inhabitants of Bursa. It is intended to discover whether…

Analysing the flow pattern in the tourism city of Eskisehir

Saidazim Sharipov, Hatice Günseli Demirkol

The purpose of this paper is to analyse pedestrian movement and traffic flow in one of the touristic destinations with several public spaces and buildings in the city of Eskisehir.

Walkability assessment and tourism cities: the case of Venice

Andrea Gorrini, Viola Bertini

The purpose of this paper is to propose a systematic review of the contributions present in the literature about walkability. This is aimed at defining a set of criteria and…

Walk Score and tourist accommodation

Yael Ram, C. Michael Hall

The purpose of this paper is to extend the research on tourist walkability and Walk Score® by posing the question “does tourist accommodation benefit from being located in…

Tourist cities as embodied places of learning: walking in the “feelds” of Shanghai and Lisbon

Wendelin Küpers, Desmond Wee

Walking is considered as a particular relationship for rhythmic moving in cityscapes and as method for understanding. The purpose of this paper is to explore the significance of…

Difficulties for enjoyment of public spaces by residents: Maldonado-Punta del Este conurbation

María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández, Daniel Álvarez-Bassi, Jose Ramon Cardona

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the various types of negative impacts have an effect on the general attitude toward tourism and the difficulty for the enjoyment…