ABSTRACT
Cultural Sustainability, Tourism and Development considers how tourism provides a lens to examine issues of cultural sustainability and change. It discusses how cultural and natural assets, artistic interventions, place identity, policy strategies, and community well-being are intertwined in (re)articulations of place and local dynamics that occur in tourist locations.
With a primary focus on culture in sustainable development, the book clarifies connections between culture as a core dimension of local sustainability and cultural dimensions of sustainable tourism. It highlights the roles and place of cultural expression, artistic activity, and heritage resources in local or regional sustainable development contexts. Chapters critically examine the dimensions of tourism-invoked dynamics of change and the cultural impacts of tourism-related activities. The book concludes with proposals for new culture-informed and creativity-based approaches, mediations, and relations to encourage a better balance between visitors and residents’ quality of life and the broader sustainability of the area. Interdisciplinary and international in scope, contributions reflect on communities and rural areas located in Brazil, Canada, Croatia, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and the United States.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of cultural development and policy, heritage studies, cultural tourism and sustainable tourism, cultural geography, and regional development.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|30 pages
Relational modes of tourism and culture-informed placemaking dynamics
part II|36 pages
Artistic interventions for regional revitalization
chapter 5|16 pages
Bonavista Biennale – Art Encounters on the Edge
part III|59 pages
Leveraging culture-based tourism for local development
chapter 6|23 pages
Small growth
chapter 7|18 pages
Positive and negative effects of cultural tourism development
chapter 8|16 pages
Engaging culture and tourism under international hallmark programmes
part IV|50 pages
Generative approaches to cultural stewardship and tourism
chapter 9|12 pages
Casa Grande Foundation
chapter 11|17 pages
The dichotomies of local tourism and cultural development in the city of Dubrovnik
part V|18 pages
Closing remarks