Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World : A Regional Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415776219 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 280 str.

Dallen J. Timothy;Gyan Nyaupane

Opis

Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World is the first book of its kind to synthesize global and regional issues, challenges and practices related to cultural heritage and tourism, specifically in less-developed nations. This seminal book tackles the issues through theoretical discourse, ideas and problems that underlay heritage tourism in terms of conservation, management, economics and underdevelopment, politics and power, resource utilization, colonialism, and various other antecedent notions that have shaped the development of heritage tourism in the less-developed regions of the world.

It comprises two sections. The first highlights the broader conceptual underpinnings, debates, and paradigms in the realm of heritage tourism in developing regions. The second examines heritage tourism and its issues in specific regions, including the Pacific Islands, South Asia, the Caribbean, China and Northeast Asia, South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America.

This volume develops frameworks that are useful tools for heritage managers, planners and policy-makers, researchers, and students in understanding the complexity of cultural heritage and tourism in the developing world. Unlike many other books written about developing regions, it provides insiders’ perspectives, as most of the empirical chapters are authored by the individuals who live or have lived in the various regions and have a greater understanding of the region’s culture, history, and operational frameworks in the realm of cultural heritage.

This book will be of significant interest to students and researchers of tourism, culture and heritage in both the developed and developing worlds.

Spis treści

Section 1: Heritage Issues and Challenges in Developing Regions  1. Introduction: Heritage Tourism and the Less-Developed World  2. Protecting the Past: Challenges and Opportunities  3. The Politics of Heritage  4. Heritage Tourism and Its Impacts  Section 2: Heritage Issues and Challenges: Regional Perspectives  5. The Meanings, Marketing and Management of Heritage Tourism in South East Asia  6. Heritage and Tourism in East Asia’s Developing Nations: Communist-Socialist Legacies and Diverse Cultural Landscapes  7. Heritage Tourism in the Pacific: Modernity, Myth and Identity  8. South Asian Heritage Tourism: Conflict, Colonialism and Cooperation  9. Heritage Tourism in Southwest Asia and North Africa: Contested Pasts and Veiled Realities  10. Tourism and Africa’s Tripartite Cultural Past  11. Heritage Management and Tourism in the Caribbean  12. Heritage Tourism in Latin America: Can Turbulent Times be Overcome?  13. Heritage Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe  14. Heritage tourism in the Developing World: Reflections and Ramifications