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Drive Tourism: Cars, Motorcycles and RVs

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Drive tourism is coined interchangeably for self-drive car tourism as well. Indeed, drive tourism is dominated by automobile/car drive tourism. Earlier, Prideaux (2001) noted that the drive tourists travel from the origin point to the destination by car, which can be either owned or rented.

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  1. Kerala Institute of Tourism and Travel Studies (KITTS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

    M. R. Dileep

  2. Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Francesca Pagliara

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Dileep, M.R., Pagliara, F. (2023). Drive Tourism: Cars, Motorcycles and RVs. In: Transportation Systems for Tourism. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22127-9_8

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