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Tourism trails as tools for cross-border integration: A best practice case study of the Vennbahn cycling route

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This paper evaluates which processes determine the leverage of cycling tourism trails for mainstreaming cross-border contact and ‘soft’ region-building. Reflecting on the Vennbahn between Germany, Belgium and Luxemburg, the paper shows that the influence of routes on cross-border integration depends on the trail’s strength as a tourism product, its cross-border institutionalization, and the geography and scale of the trail and the involved destinations. Tourism trails could contribute to cross-border integration, vindicating the substantial money spent on such projects in INTERREG programmes. However, border-related barriers remain robust even for tourism projects that are best practices of cross-border cooperation. As such, there is an unfulfilled potential of tourism trails in their contribution to cross-border communication and social cohesion in many European borderlands.

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  • Stoffelen, Arie, 2018. "Tourism trails as tools for cross-border integration: A best practice case study of the Vennbahn cycling route," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 91-102.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:anture:v:73:y:2018:i:c:p:91-102
    DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2018.09.008
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