European waterways as a source of leisure and recreation Erfurt-
Cooper, P. (2009) European waterways as a source of leisure and
recreation. In: River Tourism. CABI, pp. 95-116. |PDF (Published
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http://bookshop.cabi.org/?page=2633&pid=... Recent interest in
travel along European waterways has revived a form of passenger
transport that predates the Roman occupation of much of Europe
almost two millennia ago (Steinbach, 1995; Baranowski and
Furlough, 2001). Europe's waterways have a long history of
having been utilized to transport freight and travellers from
one settlement or country to another (Davies, 1998). Europe's
geography provides an extensive network of natural waterways
which, over time, have been connected by numerous canals. A
number of European countries including France built many short
canals to connect rivers while other countries including Germany
focused on large cana