Cultural heritage is one of the most important tourism resources in the world. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical overview and applied knowledge of the issues, practices, current debates, concepts and management concerns associated with cultural heritage-based tourism. The second edition has been updated to include timely and emerging topics such as geopolitics, conflict, solidarity tourism, overtourism and climate change. It also expands on important areas such as environmental change, technology, social media, heritage economics, Indigenous knowledge and co-created experiences. This edition includes up-to-date data, statistics, references, case material, figures and pedagogical tools. It remains an important and accessible text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural and heritage tourism, cultural resource management, and museum management.
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Plates
Preface
1. Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Part 1
2. Consumption of Culture: Heritage Demand and Experience
3. The Heritage Supply: Attractions and Services
4. Spatial Perspectives and Heritage Resources
5. Looking for Something Real: Heritage, Tourism and Elusive Authenticity
6. Tourism and the Politics of Heritage
7. The Need to Conserve the Past: The Impacts of Tourism
8. Protective Legislation and Conservation Organizations
9. Protecting the Past for Today: Heritage Conservation and Tourism
10. Telling the Story: Interpreting the Past for Visitors
11. Planning Principles, Sustainability and Cultural Heritage Destinations
12. Marketing the Past for Today
13. Raising Revenue and Managing Visitors
Part 2
14. Museums: Keepers of the Past
15. Archaeological Sites and Ancient Monuments
16. Landscapes of the Elite and the Ordinary
17. The Industrial Past
18. Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
19. Diasporas, Roots and Personal Heritage Tourism
20. Living Heritage, Intangible Culture and Indigenous People
21. Dark Tourism: Atrocity and Human Suffering
22. Conclusions: The Future of the Past
References
Index
Circa l’autore
Dallen J. Timothy is Professor, School of Community Resources and Development, Arizona State University, USA. His research interests include tourism and geopolitics, tourism in the Global South, sustainability and tourism development. His most recent publication is Cultural Heritage Tourism in Africa (ed., Routledge, 2023).
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