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A Research Agenda for Heritage Tourism
This timely Research Agenda moves beyond classic approaches that consider the relationship between heritage and tourism either as problematic or as a factor for local development, and instead adopts an understanding of heritage and tourism as two reciprocally supported social phenomena that are co-produced.
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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
This timely Research Agenda moves beyond classic approaches that consider the relationship between heritage and tourism either as problematic or as a factor for local development, and instead adopts an understanding of heritage and tourism as two reciprocally supported social phenomena that are co-produced.
Chapters draw on case studies from Europe, North America and Asia, offering important insights on heritage consumption, hypercommodification, war tourism, dissonant heritage, decolonizing heritage and the rising importance of the digital world of tourism. The book commences with a global overview on the changing paradigm of heritage tourism, before focusing on heritage and tourism at different scales and the impacts of globalization on heritagization. It also examines the political nature of tourism heritage construction and the experiential turn of heritage tourism practices.
An invigorating read for students and scholars of tourism and heritage studies, this book offers a multitude of suggestions for pathways for future research. It is also a timely read for those working with heritage sites and looking to better understand the intersection between heritage and tourism.
This timely Research Agenda moves beyond classic approaches that consider the relationship between heritage and tourism either as problematic or as a factor for local development, and instead adopts an understanding of heritage and tourism as two reciprocally supported social phenomena that are co-produced.
Chapters draw on case studies from Europe, North America and Asia, offering important insights on heritage consumption, hypercommodification, war tourism, dissonant heritage, decolonizing heritage and the rising importance of the digital world of tourism. The book commences with a global overview on the changing paradigm of heritage tourism, before focusing on heritage and tourism at different scales and the impacts of globalization on heritagization. It also examines the political nature of tourism heritage construction and the experiential turn of heritage tourism practices.
An invigorating read for students and scholars of tourism and heritage studies, this book offers a multitude of suggestions for pathways for future research. It is also a timely read for those working with heritage sites and looking to better understand the intersection between heritage and tourism.
Critical Acclaim
‘The incomparable Maria Gravari-Barbas has brought together a multinational, multidisciplinary and multi-perspectival group of experts who push the boundaries of how we should approach the sometimes blurred intersections of heritage and tourism. A Research Agenda for Heritage Tourism will appeal to a diverse range of scholars and practitioners interested in issues such as sites’ tangibility and intangibility, impacts on diverse communities, race and politics, and new digital forms of heritage storytelling and consumption.’
– Michael A. Di Giovine, West Chester University, US
‘This is an incisive and exciting book under the leadership of Maria Gravari-Barbas, with her colleagues at IREST and other international and multidisciplinary authors. Examining cases from Asia, the Americas and Europe, they emphasize the ever-growing creation of new and old heritage at the behest of globalized post-colonial and post-communist tourism.’
– Nelson Graburn, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, US
– Michael A. Di Giovine, West Chester University, US
‘This is an incisive and exciting book under the leadership of Maria Gravari-Barbas, with her colleagues at IREST and other international and multidisciplinary authors. Examining cases from Asia, the Americas and Europe, they emphasize the ever-growing creation of new and old heritage at the behest of globalized post-colonial and post-communist tourism.’
– Nelson Graburn, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, US
Contributors
Contributors include: M. Banaszkiewicz, L. Boukhris, L. Cantoni, F. Cominelli, A. Condevaux, M. Derek, M. Gravari-Barbas, S. Guinand, S. Jacquot, D.A. Jelinčić, P. Marcotte, L.K. Morisset, M. St-Pierre, A. Stoffelen, D.J. Timothy, D. Vanneste, Y Zhu
Contents
Contents:
1 Heritage and tourism: from opposition to coproduction 1
Maria Gravari-Barbas
PART I HERITAGE TOURISM: SHIFTING PARADIGMS
2 The deep time of tourism and place: an
historical-critical approach to heritage tourism 17
Lucie K. Morisset
3 Intangible cultural heritage and tourism: research
perspectives 33
Francesca Cominelli, Aurélie Condevaux and
Sébastien Jacquot
4 Integrating natural and cultural heritage assets for
tourism: a critical reflection on bridging concepts
for future research 49
Dominique Vanneste and Arie Stoffelen
PART II HERITAGE TOURISM RESCALINGS
5 Heritage, tourism and globalization: Angkor as
a laboratory of world-heritagization 65
Maria Gravari-Barbas
6 Heritage and tourism in China: challenges and
critical approach 85
Yujie Zhu
7 Packaging Oporto: hypercommodification of its
city centre? 101
Sandra Guinand
PART III HERITAGE TOURISM: POLITICS MATTERS
8 Tourism and dissonant heritage: towards
a dialogical approach 119
Magdalena Banaszkiewicz
9 An unwanted past in a contemporary city:
post-communist heritage and tourism in Warsaw 135
Marta Derek
10 Heritage and war tourism: enemy of the past,
tourist of the future 151
Mathieu St-Pierre and Pascale Marcotte
11 Decolonizing natural heritage: knowledge, power
and the political economy of tourism 167
Linda Boukhris
12 Tourism development of African-American
heritage: a research agenda from Baltimore 183
Maria Gravari-Barbas
PART IV HERITAGE TOURISM: THE EXPERIENTIAL TURN
13 Heritage consumption, new tourism and the
experience economy 203
Dallen J. Timothy
14 When heritage speaks t-emoticons: emotional
experience design in heritage tourism 219
Daniela Angelina Jelinčić
15 Digital transformation, tourism and cultural heritage 235
Lorenzo Cantoni
Index 253
1 Heritage and tourism: from opposition to coproduction 1
Maria Gravari-Barbas
PART I HERITAGE TOURISM: SHIFTING PARADIGMS
2 The deep time of tourism and place: an
historical-critical approach to heritage tourism 17
Lucie K. Morisset
3 Intangible cultural heritage and tourism: research
perspectives 33
Francesca Cominelli, Aurélie Condevaux and
Sébastien Jacquot
4 Integrating natural and cultural heritage assets for
tourism: a critical reflection on bridging concepts
for future research 49
Dominique Vanneste and Arie Stoffelen
PART II HERITAGE TOURISM RESCALINGS
5 Heritage, tourism and globalization: Angkor as
a laboratory of world-heritagization 65
Maria Gravari-Barbas
6 Heritage and tourism in China: challenges and
critical approach 85
Yujie Zhu
7 Packaging Oporto: hypercommodification of its
city centre? 101
Sandra Guinand
PART III HERITAGE TOURISM: POLITICS MATTERS
8 Tourism and dissonant heritage: towards
a dialogical approach 119
Magdalena Banaszkiewicz
9 An unwanted past in a contemporary city:
post-communist heritage and tourism in Warsaw 135
Marta Derek
10 Heritage and war tourism: enemy of the past,
tourist of the future 151
Mathieu St-Pierre and Pascale Marcotte
11 Decolonizing natural heritage: knowledge, power
and the political economy of tourism 167
Linda Boukhris
12 Tourism development of African-American
heritage: a research agenda from Baltimore 183
Maria Gravari-Barbas
PART IV HERITAGE TOURISM: THE EXPERIENTIAL TURN
13 Heritage consumption, new tourism and the
experience economy 203
Dallen J. Timothy
14 When heritage speaks t-emoticons: emotional
experience design in heritage tourism 219
Daniela Angelina Jelinčić
15 Digital transformation, tourism and cultural heritage 235
Lorenzo Cantoni
Index 253
