Cycling Tourism: A Literature Review to Assess Implications, Multiple Impacts, Vulnerabilities, and Future Perspectives

Cycle tourists are increasingly prominent in the profile of world tourism and, light literature, it is essential, among other things, to examine more closely who they are, what their concerns and motivations that generate choice a cycle product, as priority, level economic, social, environmental impact cause at destination. In this context, literature review aims identifying authors’ publishers’ interest tourism, positive negative effects form on economic environment (direct indirect), well social (benefits potential drawbacks for local communities, along with health benefits practitioners) last but not least, degree vulnerability crises generated by travel restrictions. The conclusions reported article, have been drawn from analyses examples best practice, based natural anthropogenic geographical conditions, will be prioritised future research directions. usefulness approach lies information significant applied novelty aspects, addressed local, regional, national authorities, cycling cycle-tourism associations, various private interested enterprises, view promoting recreational purposes implementing cycling/cycle-tourism infrastructure sustainable way developing small towns rural areas potential.