nanotourism – characteristics
critical conformist
confronting current realities and presumptions of tourism
participatory passive
fostering co-creation and exchange between users and providers
bottom-uptop-down
processing local information to form higher level systems
site-specificsite-generic
extremely responsive to contexts, therefore perpetually unique
localglobal
produced with local support and supporting locals
socialunsocial
collaborative, community oriented and relating to people
responsibleirresponsible
non-intrusively related to the community and environment
inventiveconventional
progressive, adding new values and creating fresh potentials
educativenon-educative
volunteering knowledge exchange and creating development
confronting current realities and presumptions of tourism
participatory
fostering co-creation and exchange between users and providers
bottom-up
processing local information to form higher level systems
site-specific
extremely responsive to contexts, therefore perpetually unique
local
produced with local support and supporting locals
social
collaborative, community oriented and relating to people
responsible
non-intrusively related to the community and environment
inventive
progressive, adding new values and creating fresh potentials
educative
volunteering knowledge exchange and creating development
mentors and team members nanotourism research group BIO 50, 2014