Comprehensive coverage of international cultural heritage tourism management.Cultural 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.
Dallen J. Timothy is Professor, School of Community Resources and Development, Arizona State University, USA. He is editor of the Journal of Heritage Tourism and his most recent book publication is Archaeology and Tourism: Touring the Past (2020, co-edited with Lina G. Tahan). His tourism research interests include heritage, geopolitics, religious travel, and empowerment.
List of FiguresList of TablesList of PlatesPreface1. Cultural Heritage and TourismPart 12. Consumption of Culture: Heritage Demand and Experience3. The Heritage Supply: Attractions and Services4. Spatial Perspectives and Heritage Resources5. Looking for Something Real: Heritage, Tourism and Elusive Authenticity6. Tourism and the Politics of Heritage7. The Need to Conserve the Past: The Impacts of Tourism8. Protective Legislation and Conservation Organizations9. Protecting the Past for Today: Heritage Conservation and Tourism10. Telling the Story: Interpreting the Past for Visitors11. Planning Principles, Sustainability and Cultural Heritage Destinations12. Marketing the Past for Today13. Raising Revenue and Managing VisitorsPart 214. Museums: Keepers of the Past15. Archaeological Sites and Ancient Monuments16. Landscapes of the Elite and the Ordinary17. The Industrial Past18. Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage19. Diasporas, Roots and Personal Heritage Tourism20. Living Heritage, Intangible Culture and Indigenous People21. Dark Tourism: Atrocity and Human Suffering22. Conclusions: The Future of the PastReferencesIndex
Professor 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.