Museum and Heritage Studies

Events and the Environment

By Robert Case

Many of our planet’s support systems are in crisis. Climate change, resource shortages and environmental pollution threaten our economy and lifestyles. Society as a whole needs to adopt policies that can meet these challenges. The ever expanding event industry is no exception. Anyone involved in...

Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge

The Cultural Moment in Tourism

Edited by Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson

Series: Advances in Tourism

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. Cultural tourism has become an important and popular aspect of contemporary tourism studies, as well as...

Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Events

Edited by Stephen Page, Joanne Connell

The Routledge Handbook of Events explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies associated with this rapidly expanding discipline. It brings together leading specialists from range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical...

Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge

The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China

A View from Lijiang

By Xiaobo Su, Peggy Teo

Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

This volume unravels the politics surrounding behind China’s hegemonic project of heritage tourism development in Lijiang. It provides a compelling study of the dialectical relationships between global and domestic capital, the state, tourists and locals as they collude, collaborate and...

Published July 6th 2011 by Routledge

Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism

Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor

By Tim Winter

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a...

Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge

Mining Heritage and Tourism

A Global Synthesis

Edited by Michael Conlin, Lee Jolliffe

Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

Many former mining areas have now lost their industrial function and are now turning to tourism for regional revitalization and community economic development. The transformation process of these industrial, and in some cases derelict, mining sites and landscapes into an area of interest for...

Published September 27th 2010 by Routledge

Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World

A Regional Perspective

Edited by Dallen J. Timothy, Gyan P. Nyaupane

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World is the first book of its kind to synthesize global and regional issues, challenges, and practices related to cultural heritage and tourism, specifically in less-developed nations. The importance of preservation and management of cultural...

Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge

Battlefield Tourism

Edited by Chris Ryan

Through a series of case studies that involve past conflict in China, the United States, The South Pacific and Europe, the nature of battlefield sites as tourist locations are explored. As places of past conflict and individual acts of heroism, these sites are places of story telling. How are these...

Published July 29th 2007 by Routledge

Managing World Heritage Sites

By Anna Leask, Alan Fyall

World Heritage Sites are some of the most recognised locations around the world. They include natural sites such as the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier and cultural ones such as the Pyramids at Giza, the Walled City of Baku in Azerbaijan and the Historic Centre of Riga in Latvia. The...

Published May 1st 2006 by Routledge