ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies in this field of Tourism. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research on this significant stream of tourism and its future direction.
The book is divided into 7 inter-related sections. Section 1 looks at the historical, philosophical and theoretical framework for cultural tourism. This section debates tourist autonomy role play, authenticity, imaginaries, cross-cultural issues and inter-disciplinarity Section 2 analyses the role that politics takes in cultural tourism. This section also looks at ways in which cultural tourism is used as a policy instrument for economic development. Section 3 focuses on social patterns and trends, such as the mobilities paradigm, performativity, reflexivity and traditional hospitality, as well as considering sensitive social issues such as dark tourism. Section 4 analyses community and development, exploring adaptive forms of cultural tourism, as well as more sustainble models for indigenous tourism development. Section 5 discusses Landscapes and Destinations, including the transformation of space into place, issues of authenticity in landscape, the transformation of urban and rural landscapes into tourism products and conservation versus development dilemmas. Section 6 refers to Regeneration and Planning, especially the creative turn in cultural tourism, which can be used to avoid problems of serial reproduction, standardisation and homogenisation. Section 7 deals with The Tourist and Visitor Experience, emphasising the desire of tourists to be more actively and interactively engaged in cultural tourism.
This significant volume offers the reader a comprehensive synthesis of this field, conveying the latest thinking and research. The text is international in focus, encouraging dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and areas of study and will be an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in Cultural Tourism.
This is essential reading for students, researchers and academics of Tourism as well as those of related studies in particular Cultural Studies, Leisure, Geography, Sociology, Politics and Economics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|55 pages
History, Philosophy and Theory
chapter 1|7 pages
The Nineteenth-Century ‘Golden Age' of Cultural Tourism
chapter 7|9 pages
The Multilogical Imagination
part II|72 pages
Politics, Policy and Economics
chapter 8|6 pages
Tourism Policy Challenges
chapter 12|5 pages
The Establishment of National Heritage Tourism
chapter 15|10 pages
The Economic Value of Cultural Tourism
part III|52 pages
Social Patterns and Trends
part IV|51 pages
Community and Development
part V|49 pages
Landscapes and Destinations
part VI|60 pages
Regeneration and Planning
chapter 39|5 pages
Cultural Tourism Development in the Post-Industrial City
chapter 41|8 pages
From the Dual Tourist City to the Creative Melting Pot
part VII|49 pages
The Tourist and Visitor Experience