Wine Tourism and Landscapes - Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Approach

This book identifies opportunities and challenges for wine tourism and landscapes, illustrating how national and international tourism economics could support regional, national, or international policy establishment and improve territorial sustainability. It does not just focus on wine tourism and how it can contribute to sustainable economic development, it also presents an analysis of the importance of wine landscapes and natural and cultural heritage associated to it. Also, it evaluates how the actual challenges and opportunities could impact on wine landscapes, influencing positively and negatively tourism and also the development of local and regional areas.
The book discusses how wine tourism creates multiple opportunities for local and regional sustainable development. It signals the numerous possibilities for the reduction of inequalities between territories of high and low density, the economic involvement of the communities, the creation of work and the increase in local employability, as well as the promotion of visitor and resident well-being. On the other hand, the book discusses the actual challenges, including risks that could endanger the wine landscapes, such as climate change, industrialization, loss of traditional practices, globalization, massification, and gaps in territorial planning and management, among others.

List of contents

Part 1. Impact of Climate Change on Wine Tourism.- 1. Impact of Climate Change on the Sustainability of Wine Tourism and Landscape: from a Critical Review of Literature to a Framework for Future Research (Diogo Moleiro).- 2. Spain's Wine Industry and Climate Change: Past Trends, Present Challenges, and Future Scenarios to 2050 (Enric Bas, Ana Bossler).- 3. New Grapes for a New Climate: Hybrid Grapes and Sustainability (Gregory Gardner, Lorraine Hems, and Julie Purpura-Martin).- 4. From Wine Appreciation to Wine Tourism: Likely Impacts of Climate Change on Wine Tourism Choices (Gregory Gardner, Dawn Robinson, Storm Turck, and Sarah Wilder).- Part 2. Sustainability in Wine Tourism and Hospitality.- 5. Wine Tourism and Sustainable Territorial Development: Analysis of Worldwide Scientific Coverage (Miriam Edith Pérez-Romero, Donaji Jiménez-Islas, José Álvarez-García, María de la Cruz del Río-Rama).- 6. Exploring sustainable Innovation in the Wine Industry. A Dual Focus on Production and Tourism (Giovanna Bagnato, Mara Normando, Stefania Denise Escobar).- 7. Water Conservation in Wine Tourism (Cristina Araújo, Elisabeth Kastenholz, Isabel M. Santos, Carlos Costa).- 8. Sustainability and Wine Tourism through the Vineyard Landscape: The Braided Cord System at Bodegas Tajinaste (Canary Islands) (Agustín Dorta Rodríguez, Helena Albuquerque, Joana A. Quintela, Javier Martínez Falcó).- 9. The Wine Tourist cannot Live by Wine alone: Considerations for Conceptualizing a Restaurant at an Established Wine Tourism Site. (Raul Guizzo, José Luís Braga, Catarina Mota, Sandra Brás, Isabel Borges).- Part 3. Wine Tourism and Cultural Landscape.- 10. The Wine: Tradition, Health and Culture (János Debreceni, Zsófia Fekete-Frojimovics, Beatrix Lenkovics, Andrea Lugasi, Norbert Magyar and Gabriella Soós).- 11. Cultural Wine Landscape Characterization: The Vinho Verde Region as an Example of an Approach (Isabel Vaz de Freitas, Helena Albuquerque, Alexander Cornejo, Gregory Gardner).- 12. Wine Tourism in Azores Opportunities for Sustainable Growth and Heritage Preservation (Helena Albuquerque, Joana Quintela, Agustín Dorta Rodríguez).

About the author

Helena Albuquerque is an Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture at Portucalense University, Portugal, and a member of the REMIT Research Unit (Research on Economics, Management, and Information Technologies). She holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Engineering. She has supervised numerous internship reports and master’s dissertations and has served as a jury member for both master’s and doctoral theses. Her academic work includes the publication of several peer-reviewed articles focusing on territorial sustainable development and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applied to tourism. She is actively involved in research projects across the fields of sustainable tourism, environmental conservation, research management, climate change, wine tourism, and cultural heritage. Her main research interests include: Sustainable Tourism, GIS Applications in Tourism, Nature-Based Tourism, Wine Tourism, and Territorial Sustainable Management.
 
Isabel Vaz de Freitas, Full Professor at Portucalense University, PhD in History, research at REMIT (Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies). She is a correspondent of the Portuguese Academy of History, Head of the Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture, Director of the Conservation and Restauration Center at Portucalense University. She has supervised numerous internship reports and master’s dissertations and has served as a jury member for both master’s and doctoral theses. One of the main areas of research is heritage safeguard and tourism, the water heritage and sustainability, and cultural landscapes. In this area, she has integrated financed projects, as coordinator and as a researcher. In this study area, she has published several articles and book chapters.
 
Gregory Gardner, Professor of Business Administration at SUNY, USA, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in international management, and strategy. Extensive experience developing and teaching online courses and working with international students and with executive learners. Full time tenured faculty member. Fulbright Scholar, teaching graduate and undergraduate economics courses at Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine 2007/2008, and at Eszterhazy Karole Technical University in Eger, Hungary in Fall 2015. State Department Senior Specialist in Ukraine/Eastern Europe, advising universities on program development, international partnership models, and faculty development. Non-academic experience includes management assignments in marketing, industrial engineering, and strategic planning. He is also a Principal in a small consulting practice specializing in strategic planning, marketing strategy and research, and general business practices. Clientele includes private firms, not–for-profit organizations, and government agencies. A retired military officer (colonel), his assignments were in combat communications and intelligence.

Summary

This book identifies opportunities and challenges for wine tourism and landscapes, illustrating how national and international tourism economics could support regional, national, or international policy establishment and improve territorial sustainability. It does not just focus on wine tourism and how it can contribute to sustainable economic development, it also presents an analysis of the importance of wine landscapes and natural and cultural heritage associated to it. Also, it evaluates how the actual challenges and opportunities could impact on wine landscapes, influencing positively and negatively tourism and also the development of local and regional areas.
The book discusses how wine tourism creates multiple opportunities for local and regional sustainable development. It signals the numerous possibilities for the reduction of inequalities between territories of high and low density, the economic involvement of the communities, the creation of work and the increase in local employability, as well as the promotion of visitor and resident well-being. On the other hand, the book discusses the actual challenges, including risks that could endanger the wine landscapes, such as climate change, industrialization, loss of traditional practices, globalization, massification, and gaps in territorial planning and management, among others.

Product details

• Assisted by: Gregory A Gardner (Editor), Helena Albuquerque (Editor), Isabel Freitas (Editor), Gregory A. Gardner (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 12.09.2025
• EAN: 9783031979330
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3197933-0
• No. of pages: 325
• Illustrations: Approx. 325 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Wirtschaftsgeographie, Economic Geography, Tourism Management, Human Geography, Gastgewerbe, Sport-, Freizeit- und Tourismusindustrie, Wine landscape sustainability, Climate change and wine tourism, Natural and cultural wine landscapes management, Wine landscapes and natural and cultural heritage, Sustainable economic development in wine tourism, Wine tourism and development of local and regional areas