This book focuses on cultural tourism as it develops into the second decade of the new millennium. It presents recent hospitality and tourism research findings from various sources, including academic researchers and scholars, industry professionals, government and quasi-government officials, and other key industry practitioners. It discusses the latest tourism industry trends and identifies gaps in the research from a pragmatic and applied perspective. It includes specific chapters on innovation in tourism, the virtual visitor, cross-cultural visions of digital collections, heritage and museum management in the digital era, cultural and digital tourism policy, marketing and governance, social media, emerging technologies and e-tourism and many other topics of contemporary significance in global hospitality and tourism. The book is edited in collaboration with the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT) and includes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cultural and Digital Tourism.

This book covers the entire spectrum of cultural and digital tourism and presents the latest findings, examples and cases, highlighting innovations for the tourism industry from both an academic and a practical point of view. The book invites readers to discover ongoing developments and recent trends in fields like heritage and museum management; sports tourism; tourism economics and policy; e-marketing and e-business; and many other fields, making it of value to researchers in tourism management, practitioners and policymakers alike. The book was edited in collaboration with the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism - IACuDiT - and includes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Cultural and Digital Tourism.

Cultural Tourism presents a unique view of global and local cultural tourism issues in four main sections. The first part is a collection of discussions on the tensions caused by globalization, with an emphasis on the issue of authenticity. The second part focuses on cultural tourism demand, with examinations on the motivations and behavior of cultural tourists in various destinations. The third section spotlights the relationship between tourists, residents, and local culture. The final part examines ways cultural events can develop tourism.



Topics in Cultural Tourism include:
interpretation of authentic culture
growth of township tourism
the success or failure of community-based tourism projects
impact of globalization on distinctiveness of place
analysis of tourism development based on new cultural attractions & ethnic diversity
basic steps needed to establish, manage, and market cultural routes
case study of Castilla y Leon in Spain - trying to find ways to effectively compete with coastal areas
new types of cultural attractions, such as ecomuseums
religious tourism
heritage as a tool for formal and informal learning
festivalization



Publisher: Haworth Hospitality Press (October, 2006)

ISBN-13: 978-0789031174

A marketing book for travel professionals, Leisure Travel focuses primarily on the psychology of travelwhy people travel and why they don't, and how to reach and motivate them more effectively. This book emphasizes that to get a greater market share, the travel professional must understand the motivations, thoughts, and lifestyles of their important market segments; thereby ensuring that advertising and promotional dollars for their programs hit their intended targets. A sweeping perspective of the leisure travel industry, this book explains, through examples and real case scenarios, how to provide the best travel products targeted to the right audience, and with the best marketing messages. For managers and executives of marketing and directors of planning at travel supplier companies (airlines, hotel chains, individual hotels, rental car companies, and cruise lines); owners and managers of travel agencies and travel agency conglomerates; and owners, managers, and executives at tour companies and travel packages.

This book describes the state of the art of tourism planning and management in national parks and protected areas. It also provides guidelines for best practice in tourism operations. Other objectives are to: Describe case studies and guidelines that contribute to conservation of biological diversity; consider the role of local communities within or near these areas; outline the development of tourism infrastructure and services; discuss visitor management; provide guidelines to enhance the quality of the tourism experience. The focus is global and the book will appeal to both academics and practitioners.

Des villes connues pour leur intérêt architectural et pour les manifestations qu'elle hébergent sont devenues des pôles touristiques. Certaines parmi elles et d'autres moins célèbres proposent à leurs visiteurs une offre innovante. Toutes s'organisent pour capter les clientèles, développer l'offre et fixer le séjour des touristes. Ces formes d'organisation et ces sortes d'innovation sont présentées ici, à partir d'exemples.


# Broché: 137 pages
# Editeur : L'Harmattan (1 novembre 2003)

Cultural tourism has been identified as one of the most important of the global tourism markets. Europe hosts a vast treasure house of cultural attractions and the level of competition between cities, regions and nations to attract cultural tourists is increasing. This book reviews the cultural tourism market in Europe, based on recent surveys. It analyses the way in which cultural attractions are produced for and used by cultural tourists and pays attention to specific types of cultural attractions including museums, art galleries, monuments and heritage attractions and the management, marketing and cultural issues surrounding them.


Hardcover: 272 pages

CABI Publishing (March 2001)

L'imaginaire transforme un lieu neutre en destination touristique. On redécouvre aujourd'hui ce fait anthropologique d'importance, longtemps négligé par les analystes. Or la mise en tourisme du patrimoine use des thèmes récurrents de l'authenticité, de l'identité culturelle, si ce n'est de l'ethnicité. Cette idéologie, prédominante dans le discours sur le patrimoine culturel, entraîne de nombreux malentendus. Cependant, l'apparition de la notion de patrimoine immatériel, en indiquant que le patrimoine échappe aux seuls critères de l'histoire et de l'art, invite à une nouvelle analyse socio-anthropologique des notions de culture, de tourisme et des politiques qui les concernent.

In cities around the world, urban culture is threatened as commercial pressures overwhelm concerns for architectural integrity. Recognizing that isolated efforts at architectural renovation do not automatically restore the historic integrity of cities, planners are seeking new methods and tools to save the structure and history of cities. In this book Nahoum Cohen establishes the emerging discipline of urban conservation as crucial to the future of urban planning and to the survival of cities in the twenty-first century.


This is the first comprehensive presentation of the wide range of issues involved in urban conservation. The author examines such cities as Athens, Budapest, Istanbul, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, Sofia, Tel Aviv, and Vienna, as well as Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and European archeological sites. He shows how preservation is the direct result of urban conservation and how it is enhanced by in-depth knowledge of city structure and history.


Paperback: 380 pages

The MIT Press, February 1999

Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions. She talks about how objectsand peopleare made to "perform" their meaning for us by the very fact of being collected and exhibited, and about how specific techniques of display, not just the things shown, convey powerful messages. Her engaging analysis shows how museums compete with tourism in the production of "heritage." To make themselves profitable, museums are marketing themselves as tourist attractions. To make locations into destinations, tourism is staging the world as a museum of itself. Both promise to deliver heritage. Although heritage is marketed as something old, she argues that heritage is actually a new mode of cultural production that gives a second life to dying ways of life, economies, and places. The book concludes with a lively commentary on the "good taste/bad taste" debate in the ephemeral "museum of the life world".

Essays and case studies by anthropologists provide insight into what measures might be necessary to mitigate the potentially harmful effects of tourism on host communities.


Anthropologists and other social scientists have only recently undertaken systematic studies of modern tourism. The need for such research is apparent given the fact that the travel and tourism industry has become one of the largest industries in the world. Major cities, entire countries, and even some of the most seemingly remote places on the globe, have become increasingly dependent on attracting tourists to their locales. The transformations that are occurring as a result of tourism are not solely economic--tourism can bring about profound cultural changes, can have important consequences for a region's ethnic and historic identity, and can produce significant social and political transformations to host communities. Few human activities have such great potential as does tourism for exposing on a personal level the considerable inequalities that do exist between people, particularly between people of different countries and different color.

Tourism and Culture provides detailed case studies that explore the complexity of modern tourism relationships. The book challenges the often assumed primacy of the relationships between "hosts" and their "guests," arguing that virtually all forms of tourism are mediated by parties who stand outside of such immediate relationships. Individual contributions to the book describe tourism developments in specific locales, offering a variety of perspectives on both positive and negative human consequences of the industry. Another unique feature of the book is development of tourism activities in different parts of the world.
"This book is an interesting and exciting collection that promises to significantly advance the tourism research field. Chambers has provided us with a collection of essays that focus on social adaptation and response to tourism. Thoughtful, critical essays on the meaning of the tourism experience from the native's point of view are rare and Chambers has, through his selection of pieces, suggested the incredible complexity of the tourism experience." -- Barbara Rose Johnston, Center for Political Ecology, Santa Cruz

Erve Chambers is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. His previous books include Applied Anthropology: A Practical Guide and (coedited with Setha M. Low) Housing, Culture, and Design: A Comparative Perspective.


Table Of Contents


1. Introduction: Tourism's Mediators, by Erve Chambers

2. The Town that Debates Tourism: Community and Tourism in Broome, Australia, by Elvi Whittaker

3. Tourism, Cultural Authenticity, and the Native Crafts Cooperative: The Eastern Cherokee Experience, by Betty J. Duggan

4. Urban Tourism in Revitalizing Downtowns: Conceptualizing Tourism in Boston, Massachusetts, by R. Timothy Sieber

5. Women as a Category of Analysis in Scholarship on Tourism: Jamaican Women and Tourism Employment, by A. Lynn Bolles

6. Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Impacts of Tourism among Kalahari Bushman, by Robert K. Hitchcock

7. Tourism with Race in Mind: Annapolis, Maryland Examines its African American Past through Collaborative Research, by George C. Logan and Mark P. Leone

8. Tourism in the Lower Mississippi Delta: Whose Field of Dreams?, by Stanley E. Hyland


9. Dilemmas of the Crossover Experience: Tourism Work in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, by Catherine Mary Cameron

10. Tourism as a Subject of High Education: Educating Thailand's Workforce, by Erve Chambers

11. Hegemony and Elite Capital: The Tools of Tourism, by M. Estellie Smith


Contributors

Index

Managing Quality Cultural Tourism is an authoritative look at how to manage cultural tourist sites to best meet the needs of the visitors, the presenters and the site itself. As cultural tourism increases the management of heritage sites becomes more complex. Priscilla Boniface addresses these crucial management issues using a marketing approach to identify the needs of all concerned. This volume is specifically aimed at professionals and students of leisure, tourism and heritage management. It provides an invaluable background to cultural tourism and then focuses on some important issues involved with managing a heritage site - education, entertainment and preservation - and considers appropriate ways of dealing with the needs of the tourist, the presenters and the cultural site. Managing Quality Cultural Tourism suggests a way forward for cultural tourism. It is an indispensable tool for all involved in tourism and heritage industries.


# Hardcover: 127 pages

# Publisher: Routledge (2 Nov 1995)