Cultural Heritage and Tourism: An Introduction

by Dallen J. Timothy

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845417703
Publisher:	Channel View Publications
Publication date:	12/03/2020
Series:	Aspects of Tourism Texts , #7
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	6.85(w) x 9.65(h) x 1.15(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Plates

Preface

1. Cultural Heritage and Tourism

Part 1

2. Consumption of Culture: Heritage Demand and Experience

3. The Heritage Supply: Attractions and Services

4. Spatial Perspectives and Heritage Resources

5. Looking for Something Real: Heritage, Tourism and Elusive Authenticity

6. Tourism and the Politics of Heritage

7. The Need to Conserve the Past: The Impacts of Tourism

8. Protective Legislation and Conservation Organizations

9. Protecting the Past for Today: Heritage Conservation and Tourism

10. Telling the Story: Interpreting the Past for Visitors

11. Planning Principles, Sustainability and Cultural Heritage Destinations

12. Marketing the Past for Today

13. Raising Revenue and Managing Visitors

Part 2

14. Museums: Keepers of the Past

15. Archaeological Sites and Ancient Monuments

16. Landscapes of the Elite and the Ordinary

17. The Industrial Past

18. Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

19. Diasporas, Roots and Personal Heritage Tourism

20. Living Heritage, Intangible Culture and Indigenous People

21. Dark Tourism: Atrocity and Human Suffering

22. Conclusions: The Future of the Past

References

Index

Editorial Reviews

This thought-provoking, comprehensive book, written by ‘unashamedly, a self-proclaimed heritage fanatic’ will assist students, scholars and practitioners to understand, conceptualize and effectively and responsibly manage cultural heritage. Those interested in participating in the academic discussion about cultural heritage tourism, recognizing it as a complex multidimensional phenomenon, must read this clear, well-structured and readable book.

Yaniv Poria

Dallen Timothy's second edition of Cultural Heritage and Tourism is a must-read book on heritage, given the accessible style and breadth and depth with which the topic is dealt. The book is an up-to-date synthesis of key thinking on this area, written by an acknowledged expert on heritage tourism.

Stephen J. Page

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.

Melanie Kay Smith

In compiling the second edition, Dallen J. Timothy successfully devotes space for emerging topics such as the sustainable use of cultural/heritage resources and technology […] Going forward, as the globe struggles to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic, this new edition will conceptually and practically offer a holistic platform for developing transformative/restorative heritage tourism, devoted to moral values, replenishment, and the wellbeing of humanity, for better times, so that it can remain resilient and thriving during catastrophic events.

Journal of Heritage Tourism, Vol 16 No 5 - Deepak Chhabra

This refreshingly new text combines the author's passion for heritage with the latest research in the area to produce a comprehensive and engaging publication. Readers are offered a rich menu of scholarly analysis, comprehensive listing of heritage sites and an extensive catalogue of references. This book can only be described as a must use text for heritage studies.

Prof Bruce Prideaux

The extensive experience, knowledge and overriding passion of the author on the subject of cultural heritage and tourism are evident in each and every chapter of this highly valuable text. The ease with which the reader can navigate the material is testament to the expertise and engaging manner of the author with the text providing a highly informative, thought-provoking and contemporary read for students, academics and practitioners in the field. Set within a very logical and coherent structure, the text challenges the reader to engage with the material with the copious supply of examples, case material, review questions, web links and reading lists delivering a valuable resource to those that share the author's zeal for the subject.

Professor Alan Fyall

This book on cultural heritage and tourism is an important contribution. It sets out the concepts and issues and provides plenty of examples from around the world. In doing so it becomes the key starting point for the study of what it describes as the "most encompassing type of tourism yet to be identified."

Professor David Airey