Scenic, Holiday and Theme Routes
Wednesday, 10 August 2011 - 01:10 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General , Bon voyage
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A scenic route is a specially designated road or waterway that travels through an area of natural or cultural beauty.
A holiday route is a road which is marketed as particularly suited for tourists. Tourist highways may be formed when existing roads are promoted with traffic signs and advertising material. Some tourist highways such as the
Blue Ridge Parkway are built especially for tourism purposes. Others may be roadways enjoyed by local citizens in areas of unique or exceptional natural beauty. Still others are former main roads, only designated as “scenic” after most traffic bypasses them.
Theme Routes are special theme-based tours, aimed at providing a visitor or tourist with a better insight on that theme. Being popular in Europe, they can cover anything from an individual city, a German wine growing region, Dutch bulb fields, Swiss Mountains, to Norwegian Fjords. Subjects can be architectural, historical, or cultural.germany-tourism.de – Scenic Routes and Wikipedia Scenic Routes .
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