Abstract
This conceptual article identifies major changes in the 21st century society that gave birth to a new generation of cultural tourists and to an innovative type of cultural tourism business that meets their needs - transformative tourism. The transformative tourism business is analysed as an integral part of a transition from the paradigm of industrial to post-industrial servitized economic system by implementation of three major paradigm innovations. The research related to the development of paradigm innovations in cultural tourism provides an opportunity to supplement the existing knowledge not only about innovative ways of cultural tourism development in rural regions, but also about general challenges facing the rural development in the post-industrial society.
JEL codes: Q01,R11, R28, O31
Vidickiene, D.; Vilke, R., Gedminaite-Raudone, Z. 2020. Transformative Tourism as an Innovative Tool for Rural Development. European Countryside, Vol. 12, No 3, pp 277-291; DOI:https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2020-0016;[AGRICOLA (National Agricultural Library); AGRIS; Baidu Scholar; CABI (over 50 subsections); CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure); CNPIEC - cnpLINKer; Dimensions; DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals); EBSCO (relevant databases); EBSCO Discovery Service; EconBiz; Engineering Village; ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences); Genamics JournalSeek; GeoArchive; Geobase; Google Scholar; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest); Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST); J-Gate; JournalTOCs; KESLI-NDSL (Korean National Discovery for Science Leaders); Microsoft Academic; MyScienceWork; Naver Academic; Naviga (Softweco); Primo Central (ExLibris); ProQuest (relevant databases); Publons; QOAM (Quality Open Access Market); ReadCube; Reaxys; Research Papers in Economics (RePEc); SCImago (SJR); SCOPUS; Semantic Scholar; Summon (ProQuest); TDNet; Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb; WanFang Data; Web of Science - Emerging Sources Citation Index; WorldCat (OCLC)].