Description
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- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Plates
- Tables
- Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The politics of culture
- A theoretical framework for cultural tourism studies
- Structure of the book
- Chapter 1 A framework for cultural tourism studies
- Introduction
- Defining cultural tourism
- Heritage tourism
- Arts tourism
- Creative tourism
- Urban cultural tourism
- Rural cultural tourism
- Indigenous cultural tourism
- Ethnic cultural tourism
- Experiential cultural tourism
- Conclusion
- Suggested reading
- Chapter 2 Demand and motivation for cultural tourism
- Introduction
- The history of demand for cultural tourism
- Motivations and categorisations of contemporary cultural tourists
- Motivations to travel for culture
- Categorising cultural tourists: an overview of previous research
- Sub-segmenting cultural tourists by types of attraction or site
- Experiential cultural tourists
- Summary
- Conclusion
- Suggested reading
- Chapter 3 The geography of cultural tourism
- Introduction
- An overview of global cultural tourism distribution
- Europe
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Southern Europe
- European islands
- Northern Europe
- Middle East and North Africa
- Africa
- The Americas
- Asia
- Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific
- Conclusion
- Suggested reading (for a general geography of tourism)
- Chapter 4 The politics of cultural tourism
- Introduction
- Globalisation and tourism
- Tourism: a new form of global imperialism?
- Glocalisation and tourism
- History and politics: the shaping of cultural tourism
- Tourism and ongoing political regimes
- Post-colonial countries
- ‘New’ nation states
- Countries with indigenous and tribal peoples
- Countries with dissonant or dark heritage
- The politics of religious tourism
- Conclusions
- Suggested reading
- Chapter 5 Heritage, tourism and museums
- Introduction
- What is heritage?
- World Heritage Sites
- Intangible heritage
- Heritage interpretation
- Ownership of and access to heritage
- The new museology
- Dissonant heritage and ‘dark’ tourism
- Ethnic, indigenous and minority heritage
- Conclusion
- Suggested reading
- Chapter 6 Indigenous cultural tourism
- Introduction
- What is indigenous cultural tourism?
- A profile of indigenous peoples
- The role of charities and action groups in support of indigenous peoples
- A community-based approach to indigenous cultural tourism development
- Indigenous involvement in and attitudes to cultural tourism development
- The cultural representation of indigenous peoples
- Conclusion
- Suggested reading
- Chapter 7 Ethnic and minority cultural tourism
- Introduction
- Tourism that focuses on ethnic cultures and communities
- A typology of ethnic and minority tourism
- Managing ethnic and minority tourism
- Host and guest relationships in ethnic tourism
- Conclusion
- Suggested reading
- Chapter 8 The arts, festivals and cultural tourism
- Introduction
- Reconciling the arts and tourism
- Democratising the arts: values, policies and politics
- Multicultural and ethnic arts
- Festivals, events and tourism
- Ethnic festivals and carnivals
- Carnivals
- Melas
- The growing popularity of gay arts events
- Conclusion
- Suggested reading
- Chapter 9 Creative tourism
- Introduction
- The history and development of the cultural and creative industries
- Defining the cultural and creative industries
- An overview of cultural and creative industries policy
- Differentiating the cultural and creative industries
- Creative environments and destinations
- The development of creative tourism
- Conclusions
- Suggested reading
- Chapter 10 The growth of experiential cultural tourism
- Introduction
- The importance of the experience economy in cultural tourism
- Theme parks – the ultimate tourism experience?
- Post-tourism and the experience economy
- Authenticity and the cultural experience
- The ‘experientialisation’ of traditional cultural tourism
- Conclusions
- Suggested reading
- Chapter 11 Sustainable cultural tourism
- Introduction
- A brief overview of sustainability
- Slow, sustainable tourism
- Cultural tourism and paradise lost
- The impacts of cultural tourism
- Maximising the benefits of cultural tourism
- Managing cultural tourism
- Conclusion
- Suggested reading
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Author Index




