The Heritage Tourist Experience

Critical Essays, Volume Two
Herausgeber: Timothy, Dallen J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides the most influential articles and papers on tourism, heritage and culture. This work focuses on the nature of the heritage experience, the demand for heritage, and managing visitors and their experiences. It is suitable for scholars and students in geography, tourism and heritage studies, cultural studies and beyond.

Produktdetails

• The International Library of Essays in Tourism, Heritage and Culture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 548
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 176mm x 252mm x 116mm
• Gewicht: 1100g
• ISBN-13: 9780754626978
• ISBN-10: 0754626970
• Artikelnr.: 57044159

Autorenporträt

Dallen J. Timothy is Professor and Program Director, Tourism Development and Management, School of Community Resources and Development, Arizona State University, USA. He has published extensively on tourism and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Heritage Tourism.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction; Writing on the Graceland wall: on the importance of authorship in pilgrim landscapes
Derek H. Alderman; Cultural and heritage tourism in Canada: opportunities
principles and challenges
Stephen Boyd; Tourism in Ghana: the representation of slavery and the return of the black diaspora
Edward M. Bruner; Travel motivation of heritage tourists
Joseph S. Chen; Conceptualizing the latent visitor to heritage attractions
Andrea Davies and Richard Prentice; Mines and quarries: industrial heritage tourism
J. Arwel Edwards and Joan Carles Llurdés i Coit; Maori culture and heritage tourism in New Zealand
C. Michael Hall
Ian Mitchell and Ngawini Keelan; Literary places
tourism and the heritage experience
David Herbert; Encounters with Aboriginal sites in metropolitan Sydney: a broadening horizon for cultural tourism?
Melinda Hinkson; Staying away: why people choose not to visit museums
Marilyn G. Hood; Historic houses and special events
Robert L. Janiskee; Industrial heritage: a nexus for sustainable tourism development
Myriam Jansen-Verbeke; Industrial heritage attractions: types and tourists
Deborah Kerstetter
John Confer and Kelly Bricker; Ethnic tourism: a Canadian experience
Yiping Li; Characteristics of the audience for 'events' at a heritage site
Duncan Light; Market-based product development in heritage tourism
Duncan Light and Richard Prentice; The importance of US historic sites as visitor attractions
James C. Makens; Into the tourist's mind: understanding the value of the heritage experience
Alison J. McIntosh; Tourists' appreciation of the Maori culture in New Zealand
Alison J. McIntosh; Attributes of popular cultural attractions in Hong Kong
Bob McKercher
Pamela S.Y. Ho and Hilary du Cros; Visitor experiences at heritage sites: a phenomenological approach
Barbara A. Masberg and Lois H. Silverman; The core of heritage tourism
Yaniv Poria
Richard Butler and David Airey; Benefits received by visitors to heritage sites: a case study of Warkworth Castle
N.A. Powe and K.G. Willis; Visitor learning at a heritage attraction: a case study of Discovery as a media product
Richard Prentice
Sinéad Guerin and Stuart McGugan; Tourism and legends: archaeology of heritage
John G. Robb; Guided by the dark: from thanatopsis to thanatourism
A.V. Seaton; Tourism and tradition: from healing to heritage
Bob Simpson; The cultural values of literary tourism
Shelagh J. Squire; Travelling to the ancestral homelands: the aspirations and experiences of a UK Caribbean community
Marcus L. Stephenson; The varied colors of slave heritage in West Africa: white American stakeholders
Victor B. Teye and Dallen J. Timothy; Museums: a supply-side perspective
Steven Tufts and Simon Milne; Tourism in European heritage cities
Jan van der Borg
Paolo Costa
and Giuseppe Gotti; Name index.