Cultural heritage and tourism : an introduction /
"This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues, practices, current debates, concepts and management concerns associated with cultural heritage-based tourism, as well as applied knowledge. The 2nd edition expands on timely and emerging topics and includes up-to-date data, statistics,...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit :
Channel View Publications,
[2021]
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| Edition: | 2nd edition. |
| Series: | Aspects of tourism texts.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.22730550 |
Table of Contents:
- Cultural heritage and tourism
- Section 1. Consumption of culture: Heritage demand and experience
- The heritage supply: Attractions and services
- Spatial perspectives and heritage resources
- Looking for something real: Heritage, tourism and elusive authenticity
- Tourism and the politics of heritage
- The need to conserve the past: The impacts of tourism
- Protective legislation and conservation organizations
- Protecting the past for today: Heritage conservation and tourism
- Telling the story: Interpreting the past for visitors
- Planning principles and cultural heritage destinations
- Marketing the past for today
- Raising revenue and managing visitors
- Section 2. Museums: Keepers of the past
- Archaeological sites and ancient monuments
- Landscapes of the elite and the ordinary
- The industrial past
- Religious sites and pilgrimage
- Diasporas, roots and personal heritage tourism
- Indigenous culture
- Dark tourism: Atrocity and human suffering
- Conclusions: The future of the past.