1st Edition

Capacity Building Through Heritage Tourism An International Perspective

Edited By Surabhi Srivastava Copyright 2021
228 Pages 16 Color & 10 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

228 Pages 16 Color & 10 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

228 Pages 16 Color & 10 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the valuable tangible and intangible benefits of the development of heritage tourism. Tourism development is widely acknowledged as a crucial tool to foster the development of rural and urban areas. To this end, this book presents nine case studies from international authors that reflect how tourism development is helpful—economically,... Read more

1. Water Conservation in the Urban Landscape Through Heritage and Capacity Building: The Case of Guimarães, Portugal

Isabel Vaz de Freitas, Makhabbat Ramazanova, Ricardo Erasun Cortés, and Paulo Pereira Leite

2. Capacity Building for Spiritual Heritage Tourism: The Case of India and Pakistan

Anita Medhekar and Farooq Haq

3. Strategies for Rural Tourism and the Recovery of Cultural Heritage: Case Study of La Vera, Spain

Francisco Javier Castellano-Álvarez, María de la Cruz Del Rio-Rama, Amador Durán-Sánchez, and José Alvarez-García

4. Cultural and Ecosystem Services from Natural Heritage Site: A Case of Sundarban

Shafiqul Islam and Ummul Fatiha Binte Shafiq

5. Subah-e-Banaras and Kashi Vishwanath Dham Corridor: An Addition in Heritage Tourism and New Age Tourism of Varanasi

Pravin S. Rana, Sudhanshu Mani, and Shushant Kumar Kushwaha

6. Heritage and Sustainable Development: Capacity Building through Tourism

Isabel Vaz de Freitas and Michał Ryszard Koskowski

7. PublicPrivate-Partnership: A Probable Panacea for Ecotourism Development in Anambra State, Nigeria

Odum, Chigozie Jude, F. O. F. Onwudufor, and Uchenna Ngozi Arene

8. Talent Management Challenges for Heritage Tourism and Rural Sustainability: A Case Study of Surajgarh Fort Heritage Hotel, India

Ekta Sharma and Sandeep Sharma

9. Tribal Tourism Development through Tribal Fairs in Rajasthan, India

Surabhi Srivastava

Biography

Surabhi Srivastava, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Om Kothari Institute of Management, Kota, Rajasthan. She was formerly a senior researcher at the University of Kota, India. Her core research area is exploring heritage tourism and the possibility of community development. She also studied tribal and nature tourism development with alternative tourism strategies. To date, she has authored five books on tourism development and has participated at and presented many research papers at national and international seminars and conferences. She has been teaching tourism management subjects for the last 20 years at various institutes in Lucknow, Kanpur, and Kota, India.