Tourism and Natural Amenity Development: Real Opportunities?
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Journal/Book Title
Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century
Publication Date
2003
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
First Page
190
Last Page
199
Abstract
The mountains, forests, rivers and lakes, open spaces, and scenic vistas that characterize portions of America's rural landscape have for many years attracted population growth, tourism and recreational visitation, and associated economic development to certain locales where natural amenity values are high. As McGranahan (1999b) notes, natural amenities involving mild climate conditions, topographic variation, and the presence of water areas are closely liked to population growth. From 1970 through 1996 nonmetropolitan counties in the United States that rated high on six natural amenity factors1 grew by an average of 125 percent, compared to an average growth of just 1 percent among counties that rated low on those same measure (McGranahan 1999b; see also Beale and Johnson 1998; Johnson and Beale 1994; Rudzitis 1999; Rudzitis and Johansen 1989; Shumway and Davis 1996).
Recommended Citation
Richard S. Krannich and Peggy Petrzelka. 2003. “Tourism and Natural Amenity Development: Real Opportunities?” in Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Brown, David L. and Louis E. Swanson. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 190-199.
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