The Southwest has long been an American dreamscape, and inherently this has had its affect on the land and its people. Among other topics discussed in the package of essays is how the area is transformed by tourism and how native people gain autonomy by presenting their experiences and cultures to tourists.
"This book presents a comprehensive and dynamic understanding of cultural tourism. It examines cultural mediators and how they help tourists appreciate foreign cultures. It also shows how tourism experiences are...
Cultural Tourism remains the only book to bridge the gap between cultural tourism and cultural and heritage management.
The Impact of Culture on Tourism examines the growing relationship between tourism and culture, and the way in which they have together become major drivers of destination attractiveness and competitiveness.
This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of cultural tourism. The chapters were originally published in the journal Anatolia.
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and holistic analysis of the intersection between tourism and popular culture.
With contributions from international experts, this book provides a broad discussion of cultural tourism as a concept and the way it is implemented in diverse regions around the world.
This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices that such an interest creates.
CORE CONCEPTS In all jurisdictions, cultural heritage management is the more widely recognized term, except in the United States, where cultural resource management is in common usage (Pearson and Sullivan 1995; Macintosh 1999).
This report highlights the relationship between tourism and culture and the interdependency of the two sectors. The report, based on a UNWTO survey, affirms that cultural tourism plays a major role in global tourism.
This book brings together new ideas about cultural experiences and how communities, creative producers, and visitors can productively engage with competing interests and notions of experience and authenticity in the tourist environment.