ABSTRACT
The heritage debate, which became more international and was soon dominated by postmodern theoretical approaches, picked up on Corner and Harvey's analysis of the popularization of heritage as part of a growing leisure industry and examined the heritage boom from three different angles. When it comes to this latter characterization of heritage tourism as experiential tourism, researchers are again split into two camps. Another defining characteristic of heritage tourism on the provider side is the need to integrate the contradictory demands of universalism and particularism. The term "cultural turn" is used in the humanities and social sciences to describe the transformation of cultural knowledge, in the course of which the significance of everyday culture for the constitution of society became the focus of the heritage debate from the late 1990s. Nora's perspective, according to which practices of memory themselves are subject to a process of historical development, was taken up by a group of heritage researchers oriented to cultural studies.
