Cultural Heritage and Tourism An Introduction

Cultural Heritage and Tourism An Introduction

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"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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Main Author: Timothy, Dallen J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK Channel View Publications 2021
Edition:2nd Edition
Series:Aspects of tourism texts 7
Subjects:
Heritage tourism
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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.

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