Description
Book SynopsisCultural 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.
Trade ReviewProfessor Dallen Timothy is one of the world’s most eminent scholars in the field of cultural heritage tourism. Using an articulate but accessible style, he covers a comprehensive range of pertinent themes from the basics of heritage management to complex issues of authenticity and the interpretation of the contested past. This book provides invaluable material for Cultural Tourism and Heritage Management courses at all levels.
* Melanie Kay Smith, Budapest Metropolitan University, Hungary *
This thought-provoking, comprehensive book, written by ‘unashamedly, a self-proclaimed heritage fanatic’ will assist students, scholars and practitioners to understand, conceptualize and effectively and responsibly manage cultural heritage. Those interested in participating in the academic discussion about cultural heritage tourism, recognizing it as a complex multidimensional phenomenon, must read this clear, well-structured and readable book.
* Yaniv Poria, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel *
Dallen Timothy's second edition of Cultural Heritage and Tourism is a must-read book on heritage, given the accessible style and breadth and depth with which the topic is dealt. The book is an up-to-date synthesis of key thinking on this area, written by an acknowledged expert on heritage tourism.
* Stephen J. Page, University of Hertfordshire, UK *
In compiling the second edition, Dallen J. Timothy successfully devotes space for emerging topics such as the sustainable use of cultural/heritage resources and technology […] Going forward, as the globe struggles to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic, this new edition will conceptually and practically offer a holistic platform for developing transformative/restorative heritage tourism, devoted to moral values, replenishment, and the wellbeing of humanity, for better times, so that it can remain resilient and thriving during catastrophic events.
-- Deepak Chhabra, Arizona State University, USA * Journal of Heritage Tourism, Vol 16 No 5 *
Table of ContentsList 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
