Cultural Routes as a Tool for Sustainable Tourism and Socio-Economic Development

Abstract

Connecting various attractions and tourist destinations within a country or across many countries, cultural routes rely on a region's cultural legacy to give learning opportunities and tourist delight. These heritage-based routes that exist in all parts of the world, on various scales, features, and purposes, are considered an important tool for the social and economic development of tourism destinations via cultural tourism and feature in tourism marketing that offers various interests such as gastronomy, arts, linguistics, architecture, spirituality, religion, and sports. This chapter examines the contribution of cultural routes to sustainable tourism and socio-economic development due to the significance they have. The methodology will be literature review and critical evaluation of the findings.