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Abstract
British Waterways' business today is about facilitating change along its 2000-mile (3200 km) network. British Waterways acts as the trustee for future generations of a world-class working heritage and environmental asset. Through restoration, regeneration and conservation, it is ensuring its waterways are made viable and sustainable for future generations through a sensitive change from their historic use to the current: and increasing leisure, tourism, recreational and business uses.
This paper examines the transformation of the Scottish Canals network for the purposes of leisure visitation as an element of tourism. It focuses on 2 iconic developments, The Kelpies and the Falkirk Wheel, which are considered in relation to their impact on destination awareness and tourism development in a particular locale. The key attraction sites illustrate successful brownfield regeneration, enduring visitation and the role of canals as multifaceted tourism assets in a specific region of Scotland. In addition, the paper provides a context for the decline and resurgence of canals in lowland Scotland.
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