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in and around Liverpool that were instrumental in the development of the
group's success and each group member's life (Fremaux & Fremaux, 2013),
and Germany's Fairy Tale Route links places and fairy tales in the Grimm
collection (Hemme, 2005).
Industrial trails
Industrial archaeology is one of the most salient tourism resources today.
There is an abiding interest among travelers to visit the industrial past to be
able to appreciate the engineering feats and industrial wonders of today
(Timothy, 2011a; Timothy & Boyd, 2003). This includes growing numbers
of visits to factories, ports and docks, railway museums, dams and power
stations, historic canals, mines, timber camps, and other such remnants of
past industrial stories. As a result of the increased value of such places and
artifacts, industrial trails have been initiated since the 1990s (Kerstetter et al. ,
1998), including the Route of the Clockmakers in Franche-Comté, France,
and the Pyrenean Iron Route in Spain, Andorra and France. Most industrial
trails are long-distance routes that are best traversed with cars or public
transportation, although some can be traveled by foot in certain sections.
The Iron Road in Central Europe was inaugurated in 2007 as a Cultural
Route of the Council of Europe. Its aim is to trace the ironworks heritage of
Europe from prehistoric times until today and involves geology, technology,
artistry, folklore and social elements of extraction, transportation, production
and trade. It links together individual iron routes in eight Central European
countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia,
Romania, Slovenia and Germany (European Institute of Cultural Routes, 2013).
Mine trails have become a unique product in areas that are famous for
their mining heritage, such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many
places in Europe (Conlin & Jolliffe, 2011; Drew, 1998; Lemky & Jolliffe,
2011; Timcak et al. , 2011). Most of these are drive routes (or horseback trails
between some locations) because of the considerable distances between
associated sites. In 2000, the Otago Goldfields Heritage Trail was designed
as a tourist attraction in the Otago region of New Zealand and is promoted
by regional tourism officials. The interpreted circuit commemorates the
Otago Gold Rushes of the 1860s and links together more than 20 different
goldfield-related sites and field artifacts (Frost, 2005). The Colliery Route in
Nova Scotia, Canada, is a well-marked drive route that tracks an interesting
circuit of museums, mining town architecture and coal mining monuments
(Lemky & Jolliffe, 2011). Most of Australia has a strong mining heritage
that has been utilized for tourism purpose for many years, including mines,
rail lines, museums and ghost towns (Frost, 2011; Prideaux & Timothy,
2011). Several self-guided drive trails were established in South Australia to
link historic copper mining towns together into a single product. The drives
emphasize mines, schools, housing, churches, pubs and other artifacts that
are important parts of the state's mining heritage. As well, there are a