Cultural Heritage

This book offers excellent contributions to the area of cultural tourism. The importance of heritage and cultural tourism has significantly increased in today's highly specialized tourism service economy. This book emphasizes further the importance of themed tourism with policy and development implications. The scope of the coverage is broad with examples from different international settings. It is a must reading for both students of tourism and also practitioners of tourism managing and marketing destinations. - Associate prof. Albert G. Assaf, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts

These 17 chapters on Cultural Heritage make this edited text an excellent resource that contributes to academic and practitioner understanding of the main themes that underpin the topic, and also provides fascinating insights into real-world cases, and examples of the consumption, management, and marketing of cultural heritage from a wide variety of perspectives. - Dr. Heather Skinner, Chair: Corfu Symposium on Managing & Marketing Places and chair: Visiting Places Special Interest Group - Institute of Place Management

This comprehensive and timely compendium brings together the best international scholarship on cultural heritage from various disciplines. The editors solicited a synthesis of research exploring a variety of themes ranging from authenticity, values, place concepts to conservation, and dark heritage sites. Scholars and practitioners alike will appreciate the breadth and scope of this insightful anthology which stimulates and contributes to the current debates surrounding cultural heritage. - Dr. Nicole Koenig-Lewis, Cardiff University's Business School

This anthology provides a novel and valuable interdisciplinary examination of cultural heritage. Through a diversity of theoretical and empirical perspectives, its chapters illuminate current topics in cultural heritage such as values, authenticity, place branding, commercialisation, looting and dark sites, economic and technological aspects. This anthology is a highly welcomed contribution to the field of cultural heritage. - Associate prof. Ana Maria Munar, Director Center for Leisure and Culture Services, Copenhagen Business School