1st Edition

Innovative Cultural Tourism in European Peripheries

290 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Cultural tourism can play an important role in social and territorial cohesion. Focusing on European peripheral regions, this book illuminates the importance of local communities in heritage management for sustainable development. This book provides insights into the use of innovative business models and tools, such as ecosystem services contracts and digital narrative platforms, to enhance the... Read more

1 Introduction. visiting the margins: innovative cultural tourism in European peripheries

Karol Jan Borowiecki, José María Martín Civantos and Antonella Fresa

2 Tourism as a tool for social and territorial cohesion: exploring the innovative solutions developed by INCULTUM pilots

Flore Coppin and Vincent Guichard

3 Place branding from scratch: naming, framing, and finding Campina de Faro

Viktor Smith and Maximilian Block

4 Innovative business models for cultural tourism: advancing development in peripheral locations

Carsten Jacob Humlebæk and Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen

5 Navigating landscapes: approaches to data collection and analysis in tourism

Karol Jan Borowiecki, Maja Uhre Pedersen, Sara Beth Mitchell and Shahedul Alam Khan

6 Participatory models and approaches in sustainable cultural tourism

Kamila Borsekova and Katarina Vitališova

7 Tourism and reception of visitors as a lever for inclusiveness and resiliency of heritage communities: two case studies in Hungarian peripheries

Eszter Gyorgy, Gabor Olah and Gabor Sonkoly

8 Participatory platform for sustainable cultural tourism: the case of Central Slovakia

Darina Rojikova, Kamila Borsekova and Alexandra Bitušikova

9 Water heritage and community‑based cultural tourism. The case of the Algarve’s Coastal Agrarian plain, in Southern Portugal

Desiderio Batista, Manuela Guerreiro, Miguel Reimao Costa, Bernardete Sequeira, Marisa Cesario and Dora Agapito

10 Historical water management systems and sustainable tourism: the case study of Altiplano de Granada (Spain)

Jose Maria Martin Civantos, Elena Correa Jimenez and Maria Teresa Bonet Garcia

11 Ancient paths to the future: an integrated approach to territorial communities and entrepreneurship

Flore Coppin and Vincent Guichard

12 Measuring rural tourist behaviour and engagement: inside the mind of the visitor

Sabine Gebert Persson, John Osth, Mikael Gidhagen, Marina Toger and Anna‑Carin Nordvall

13 Cultural tourism, cutting‑edge technologies and participatory planning in the context of worth‑living integrated development

Vaios Kotsios and Sotiris Tsoukarelis

14 Experimental reconstruction, cultural memory and cultural tourism: Vlach minority heritage in the Upper Vjosa Valley, Southern Albania EGLANTINA SERJANI AND ARDIT MITI

15 Community genealogy as a tool for heritage tourism

John Tierney, Maurizio Toscano and Amanda Slattery

Biography

Karol Jan Borowiecki is Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark, and President-Elect of the Association for Cultural Economics International.

Antonella Fresa is Director of Implementations at Promoter srl, Vice-President of Photoconsortium: international association and contracted professor of Tourism Science at the University of Pisa, Italy.

José María Martín Civantos is Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Granada, Spain.