Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415467117 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 251 str.

Melanie Smith

Opis

The extensively revised second edition of Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies provides a new framework for analysing the complexity of cultural tourism and its increasing globalisation in existing as well as emergent destinations of the world. The book will focus in particular on the need for even more creative tourism strategies to differentiate destinations from each other using a blend of localised cultural products and innovative global attractions. At the interface between the global and the local, a people-centred approach to planning and development will be advocated to ensure that benefits are maximised for local areas, a sense of place and identity are retained, and the tourist experience is enhanced to the full.

The book explores many of the most pertinent issues in heritage, arts, festivals, indigenous, ethnic and popular cultural tourism in urban and rural environments alike. This includes policy and politics; impact management and sustainable development; interpretation and representation; marketing and branding; and regeneration and planning. The new edition has been reorientated towards global rather than just European issues.  This is reflected in an increased number of topical case studies that serve to contextualise the issues discussed.  As well as exploring the inter-relationships between the cultural and tourism sectors, local people and tourists, the book provides suggestions for more effective and mutually beneficial collaboration.

As well as providing a new framework for the analysis of cultural tourism supply and demand and a re-visitation of significant issues, the book includes two brand new chapters– one on the role of the cultural and creative industries in tourism development, and another on the changing nature of consumption and the growth of the experiential consumer. The text is unique in that it provides a summary and a synthesis of all of the major issues in global cultural tourism, which are presented in an accessible way using a diverse range of international case studies.

Spis treści

1. A Framework for Global Cultural Tourism  2. The Geography of Cultural Tourism  3. The Politics of Global Cultural Tourism  4. Heritage, Tourism and Museums  5. Indigenous Cultural Tourism  6. The Arts, Festivals and Cultural Tourism  7. The Growth of Creative Tourism  8. Urban Cultural Tourism and Regeneration  9. Experiential Cultural Tourism  10. The Future of Cultural Tourism

O autorze

Melanie Smith is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Tourism Management at Corvinus University, Budapest. She is also currently Chair of ATLAS (the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education). Her research interests are in Cultural Tourism, Health and Wellness Tourism, and Cultural Regeneration.