Creating Heritage for Tourism

• Other Authors: Palmer, Catherine (Editor), Tivers, Jacqueline (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2019
• Series: Current Developments in the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism
• Subjects: Heritage tourism
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• Physical Description: xv, 269 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781138572713

What does 'heritage' mean in the twenty-first century? Traditional ideas of heritage involve places where objects, landscapes, people and ideas are venerated and reproduced over time as an inheritance for future generations. To speak of heritage is to speak of a relationship between the past, the present and the future. However, it is a past recreated for economic gain, hence sectors such as culinary tourism, ecotourism, cultural tourism and film tourism have employed the heritage label to attract visitors. This interdisciplinary book furthers understanding on how heritage is socially constructed, interpreted and experienced within different geographic and cultural contexts, in both Western and non-Western settings. Subjects discussed include Welsh linguistic heritage, tango, mushroom tourism, Turkish coffee, literary tourism and the techniques employed to construct tourist accommodation. By focusing upon heritage creation in the context of tourism, the book moves beyond traditional debates about 'authentic heritage' to focus on how something becomes heritage for use in the present. This timely volume will be of interest to students and researchers in tourism, heritage studies, geography, museum studies and cultural studies.