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Title: Territorial marketing based on Non-Wood Forest Products (NWFPs) to enhance sustainable tourism in rural areas: a literature review
Author: Rovira Pérez, Marta  
Tutor: Garay, Lluis  
Abstract: We have often seen how a distinctive feature of a territory is used as a brand to create an image and thus boost tourism and attract more visitors to the region. This is "territorial marketing", a marketing strategy in which the local government works together with relevant actors to promote their region and generate social and economic development. Along with this image, territorial marketing offers connected products and services, usually related to tourism, recreation and gastronomy. Non-wood forest products (NWFPs), such as mushrooms, truffles, aromatic and medicinal plants, berries or honey, are good candidates for becoming “image products” of a territory, because they are a natural product and its collection and elaboration are, in many cases, related to traditional practices and local culture. In rural areas, NWFPs can play an additional economic role when used as 'image' products in territorial marketing initiatives to identify a geographical area and network its actors (e.g., the "Chestnut Route ", the" blueberry valley "," the truffle road "). However, although the NWFP is a very broad sector that includes multiple products and sectors, there are few studies that analyse the NWFPs-based territorial marketing strategy, and little is known about how this issue is developing. For this reason, in this study a literature review has been made with the aim of, first, to know in a general way the study of territorial marketing in rural areas, from which disciplines it is being analysed, what are the main theoretical and methodological approaches used, as well as the different application models, and the elements of success; and second, based on the previous analysis, to know the scope of the study of territorial marketing based on NWFPs and related services (tourism, recreation, gastronomy). The results of the literature review show a growing interest in territorial marketing in rural areas, and several authors consider this strategy appropriate to enhance the use of local NWFPs and related services, such as mycotourism, but there is virtually no focused study. in case study analysis or in the process of implementing this PFNF-based marketing strategy. Therefore, more studies are needed to better understand the potential of this product as a territorial image to promote a rural area and attract more tourists to the area.
Keywords: territorial marketing
territorial branding
rural areas
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: 12-Feb-2022
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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