ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book examines the pervasive impact of creative artifacts, performances, and performers that are appropriated in the service of enhancing heritage or bringing tourist populations to sites to engage in cultural exchange. It argues for further research on cultural tourism from the tourist perspective and draws attention to the way in which creative tourism is a unique learning and participative experience. The book discusses the role of spectacles as a mechanism of cultural tourism development appears in the studies of Macau and that city's vernacular heritage, as well as in the analysis of former convict sites in Australia. It examines the way in Eurocentric frameworks of tourism are becoming diversified in the face of Chinese tourism where the development of vernacular tourism has a major role to play in tourism development.
