Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses the relationships between tourism, creativity and the creative industries in theory, policy and practice, and introduces the subsequent chapters that address these connections in various international sectorial contexts. In Kim and Nam also provide an international policy perspective in their discussion of the opportunities and challenges facing tourism and the creative industries in South Korea, offering a very useful overview of the nascent relationships between creativity and tourism in an Asian context. The fostering of creativity may also of course be considered to be a prime purpose of education at all stages of lifelong learning from playwork in primary school to creative writing and arts courses in adult education classes for retired people such as those provided by the University of the Third Age in the United Kingdom.