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1 online resource (321 pages) |
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Key Issues in Cultural Heritage |
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Key issues in cultural heritage.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; List of contributors; Series Editors' foreword; 1 Introduction -- place, encounter, engagement: context and themes; PART I The intimacy of encounters; 2 Gateway and garden: a kind of tourism in Bali; 3 Authorising the unauthorised: liquidity, complexity and the heritage-tourist in the era of social media; PART II Heritage, tourists and the work of representation; 4 Heritage tourism and its representations; 5 Swords, sandals and togas: the cinematic imaginary and the tourist experiences of Roman heritage sites |
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6 Country matters: the rural-historic as an authorised heritage discourse in EnglandPART III Tourism and performance at heritage places; 7 Cuzcotopia: imagining and performing the Incas; 8 Using immersive and interactive approaches to interpreting traumatic experiences for tourists: potentials and limitations; PART IV Heritage, 'tradition', tourism and the politics of change; 9 Cultures of interpretation; 10 Heritage for sale: Indigenous tourism and misrepresentations of voice in northern Chile; 11 Discourses of development: narratives of cultural heritage as an economic resource |
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PART V Managing the heritage-tourism engagement12 Cambodian experiences of the manifestation and management of intangible heritage and tourism at a World Heritage site; 13 Heritage tourism in Africa; 14 Clustering industrial heritage tourists: motivations for visiting a mining site; Index |
| Summary |
The complex relationship between heritage places and people, in the broadest sense, can be considered dialogic, a communicative act that has implications for both sides of the 'conversation'. This is the starting point for Heritage and Tourism . However, the 'dialogue' between visitors and heritage sites is complex. 'Visitors' have, for many decades, become synonymous with 'tourists' and the tourism industry and so the dialogic relationship between heritage place and tourists has produced a powerful critique of this often contested relationship. Further, at the h |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Heritage tourism.
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cultural tourism.
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Heritage tourism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bushell, Robyn
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Watson, Steve
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| ISBN |
9781135114251 |
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1135114250 |
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