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Heritage and Tourism: Place, Encounter, Engagement book cover

1st Edition

Heritage and Tourism Place, Encounter, Engagement

Edited By Russell Staiff, Robyn Bushell, Steve Watson Copyright 2013
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

1. Theoretical Issues  2. Tourism and Heritage - Pluralist Imaginings  3. Heritage Discourse and its Representations  4. Sandals and Togas. The Cinematic Imaginative and the Tourist Experiences of Roman Heritage sites.  5. Empty Promises and Historical Amnesia. The Dangers of Heritage Tourism as a Development Strategy.  6. Complexifying the notion of heritage inscription and the unauthorised interpretation  7. Using immersive and interactive approaches to interpreting traumatic experiences for tourists. potentials and limits  8. Country Matters. the rural historic as an authorised heritage discourse - in England  9. Shanghai Expo. meeting the world, hosting a people  10. Surface Collection… integration of traveller, travel sensibility and discipline. ways of seeing and being in place  11. Cambodian experiences of the manifestation and management dynamics of intangible heritage and tourism at a World Heritage Site  12. Heritage for Sale. the misrepresentation of voice and Indigeneity in Northern Chile  13. Local Heritage Tourism in Cuzco, Peru. Palimpsests of Monumentality and Spatialized Identities in the Land of the Incas  14. Clustering Industrial Heritage Tourists. Motivations for Visiting a Mining Site  15. Indigenous Australian heritage and story telling  16. African natural heritage

Biography

Robyn Bushell is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Culture & Society and the School of Social Science, University of Western Sydney.

Russell Staiff is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Heritage at the Institute for Culture & Society and the School of Social Science, University of Western Sydney.　

Steve Watson is Principal Lecturer at the Business School, York St John University, UK and an Assistant Editor on the International Journal of Heritage Studies.

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