Introduction : walking : more than pedestrian / C. Michael Hall, Yael Ram & Noam Shoval -- Walking in the capitalist city : on the socio-economic origins of walkable urbanism / Anja Hälg Bieri -- Radical twenty-first century walkers and the romantic qualities of leisure walking / Phil Smith -- Long-distance walking in films : promises of healing and redemption on the trail / Warwick Frost & Jennifer Laing -- Walking as pedagogy / Karein K. Goertz -- Walking in Germany : between recreation and ideology / Dirk Reiser & Vanessa Jansen-Meinen -- Walking and art : perambulating pleasures / Ray Boland & Bryan Wheeler -- Dog walking as a leisure activity / Yoshitaka Iwasaki -- Walking in Switzerland : urban and not so leisurely / Derek P.T.H. Christie, Emmanuel Ravalet & Vincent Kaufmann -- Purposeful leisure mobilities : reframing the walk to school / Debbie Hopkins & Sandra Mandic -- Spiking : the quest for challenge and meaning among hikers / Ron McCarville & Chantel Pilon -- On the beaten track : how do narratives from organised hiking differ from "real" hiking narratives? / Outi Rantala & Seija Tuulentie -- Comparisons between hikers and non-hikers in Iceland : attitudes, behaviours and perceptions / Anna Dóra Saeþórsdóttir, C. Michael Hall & Þorkell Stefánsson -- Passeggiata nuova : social travel in the era of the smartphone / Andrew Mondschein -- Walking online : a netnography of China's emerging hiking communities / Alexandra Witte & Kevin Hannam -- Hiking trails and pilgrimage routes -- Hut-to-hut-hiking trails : a comparative analysis of popular hiking destinations / Sven Gross & Kim Werner -- Taking you home : the Masar Ibrahim al-Khalil in Palestine / Rami Isaac -- The Wales Coast Path : the world's first national coastal footpath / Stephen Miles -- Improving the experience quality of hiking trails : a setting-experience-relationship approach / Diana Müller, Heinz-Dieter Quack, Kathrin Schumacher, Franziska Thiele -- Hikers preferences and dmo strategies : contrasting perspectives and conflicting views? / Ingeborg M. Nordbø -- Re-signifying smuggling : cross-border walking trails as a tourist experience in the Spanish-Portuguese border / Heriberto Cairo & María Lois -- The solo-hike : a journey of distance and closeness / Hannelene Schilar -- Walking to care : pilgrimage as slow tourism development Kumano-kodo pilgrimage, Wakayama, Japan / Kumi Kato -- Hindu pilgrimage in India and walkability : theory and praxis / Subhajit Das & Manirul Islam.