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Special Interest Tourism - Garden Tourism, August 2023

Welcome all,

Gardens mean many different things to many different people and the motivation to visit one, or to create one is an individual one. Gardens can add colour to a grey city block, provide a refuge from a busy day,  provide food and shelter, educate and inform and connect to nature.

In today's blog, I've listed some titles available from the library that explain the tourism perspective of gardens and guides and websites to many of the gardens in Tasmania, Australia and other parts of the world. So have a read and inspire yourself to visit a garden. 

Books from the Library 

• Special interest tourism : concepts, contexts and cases / edited by Sheela Agarwal, Graham Busby, and Rong Huang. 910.68 SPE 
• Garden tourism / Richard Benfield. 910.2 BEN 2013 
• Gardens of Europe : a traveller's guide / Charles Quest-Ritson. 635.9094 QUE 
• The garden lover's guide to Australia / Holly Kerr Forsyth. 635.90994 FOR 
• The garden lover's guide to Germany / Charles Quest-Ritson. 712.50943 QUE 

Websites 

Garden Organisations 

https://www.gardencouncil.org/p-tourism-38.aspx 

\https://bloomingtasmania.com.au/  

Botanical Gardens 

Tasmania 

https://www.discovertasmania.com.au/things-to-do/botanical-gardens/garden-views-in-tasmania/  

https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Attractions-g255096-Activities-c57-t58-Tasmania.html 

Australia 

https://www.trulyaus.com/botanic-gardens/ 

https://www.botanicgardens.org.au/whats-on 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_botanical_gardens_in_Australia  

International 

https://www.publicgardens.org/resources/new-perspectives-garden-tourism-building-sustainable-visitor-base 

https://www.greatgardensoftheworld.com/  

YouTube Clips 

15 Most Beautiful Gardens in the World 

Monty Don's 'Around the World in 80 Gardens' (2008) 

Garden Tours 

https://www.asatours.com.au/tours/tasmania-garden-tour/ 

https://www.rosstours.com/tasmania/  

https://www.botanica.travel/destinations/australia  

https://www.travelrite.com.au/garden-tours.php 

https://renaissancetours.com.au/product-category/gardens/