Future of Cultural Tourism

Xavier Matteucci is Adjunct Honorary Professor at IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences and Adjunct Faculty at both FHWien der WKW University of Applied Sciences and Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria. He is particularly interested in the influence of tourism/travel on individual and collective wellbeing as well as in the effects of globalisation processes and politics on regional cultures and cultural identities.Simone Moretti is part of the Research Group Tourism Impacts on Society at Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, where he contributes to research activities and EU-funded projects focused on interventions to maximise the positive impacts of tourism and minimise the negative effects. His research centres on the intersection between tourism, culture, places and identities.

• Figures and TablesContributorsAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Xavier Matteucci: The Future of Cultural Tourism: Utopia, Dystopia, HeterotopiaPart 1: GovernanceChapter 2. Prosper Wanner, Hakan Shearer Demir and Ivana Volić: Communities of Hospitality as a Democratic Governance Model for Host–Guest InteractionsChapter 3. Ella Björn and Monika Lüthje: Envisioning Posthumanist Cultural Tourism: Indigenous Sociomaterial Practices of Teaching Tourists about Local CulturesChapter 4. Lidija Petrić, Ante Mandić and Davorka Mikulić: Fostering Sustainable and Resilient Rural Communities through Cultural Tourism Villages: A Case Study of the Dalmatian HinterlandChapter 5. Rouran Zhang, Weili Zhan, Ying Lyu and Da Kuang: Uncovering the Multifaceted Heritage Values of Longhushan World Natural Heritage Site through Tourists' Lens: An Analysis of Online TraveloguesPart 2: ConsumptionChapter 6. Jelena Farkić: Edifying Slow Cultural Tourism Concepts and PracticesChapter 7. Dallen J. Timothy: Emerging Perspectives on the Future of Cultural TourismChapter 8. Marta Šveb Dragija and Daniela Angelina Jelinčić: Museums of the Future: Cultural Tourism Experiences for Wellbeing and TransformationThis chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at https://zenodo.org/records/14730188.Part 3: TechnologiesChapter 9. Emanuele Mele: Cultural Tourists of the Future: Envisioning How Digital Technologies Can Shape Heritage Experiences in EuropeChapter 10. Daniel W.M. Wright: Beyond Digital Prisons: Counterculture and the Hippie Trail ResurrectedChapter 11. Ulrike Gretzel and Eva Sánchez-Amboage: Cultural Tourism in the MetaversePart 4: General OutlookChapter 12. Muzaffer Uysal and Jiahui Wang: Quality of Life and Cultural and Heritage TourismChapter 13. Maurizio Scarciglia: Cultural Tourism as Cultural Adaptation: Urban Design Scenarios for the FutureChapter 14. Simone Moretti and Xavier Matteucci: Uncharted Territories in Cultural Tourism: Synthesis and Some Personal ReflectionsIndex

A long-awaited and easily accessible volume that moves us into a new era of cultural tourism research and highlights key areas centred on governance, consumption, and technologies. It will be of great interest to those working in the areas of cultural studies, social geography, social anthropology, and tourism.