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What does 'heritage' mean in the twenty-first century? Traditional
ideas of heritage involve places where objects, landscapes, people
and ideas are venerated and reproduced over time as an inheritance
for future generations. To speak of heritage is to speak of a
relationship between the past, the present and the future. However,
it is a past recreated for economic gain, hence sectors such as
culinary tourism, ecotourism, cultural tourism and film tourism
have employed the heritage label to attract visitors. This
interdisciplinary book furthers understanding on how heritage is
socially constructed, interpreted and experienced within different
geographic and cultural contexts, in both Western and non-Western
settings. Subjects discussed include Welsh linguistic heritage,
tango, mushroom tourism, Turkish coffee, literary tourism and the
techniques employed to construct tourist accommodation. By focusing
upon heritage creation in the context of tourism, the book moves
beyond traditional debates about 'authentic heritage' to focus on
how something becomes heritage for use in the present. This timely
volume will be of interest to students and researchers in tourism,
heritage studies, geography, museum studies and cultural studies.
What does 'heritage' mean in the twenty-first century? Traditional
ideas of heritage involve places where objects, landscapes, people
and ideas are venerated and reproduced over time as an inheritance
for future generations. To speak of heritage is to speak of a
relationship between the past, the present and the future. However,
it is a past recreated for economic gain, hence sectors such as
culinary tourism, ecotourism, cultural tourism and film tourism
have employed the heritage label to attract visitors. This
interdisciplinary book furthers understanding on how heritage is
socially constructed, interpreted and experienced within different
geographic and cultural contexts, in both Western and non-Western
settings. Subjects discussed include Welsh linguistic heritage,
tango, mushroom tourism, Turkish coffee, literary tourism and the
techniques employed to construct tourist accommodation. By focusing
upon heritage creation in the context of tourism, the book moves
beyond traditional debates about 'authentic heritage' to focus on
how something becomes heritage for use in the present. This timely
volume will be of interest to students and researchers in tourism,
heritage studies, geography, museum studies and cultural studies.
Travel and tourism 'stories' have been told and recorded within
every culture, in every period of oral and written history, and
across the breadth of the fact/fiction continuum. Taking two broad
themes as its starting point - travellers and their narratives, and
place narratives in travel and tourism - the book has a
deliberately wide scope, with different chapters addressing the
subject through various relevant 'lenses' and in relation to a
number of different contexts. The narratives discussed include both
historical and contemporary, as well as 'real-life' and fictional,
narratives contained within travel writing, travel and tourism
stories and different types of media. In relation to the principal
themes of the book, some chapters also explore the importance of
collecting memorabilia and image making in the recording,
remembering, writing, telling or disseminating of stories about
travel and tourism experiences and some examine the ways in which
travel and tourism narratives may construct and reinforce personal,
collective and place identities. The whole book is marked by an
over-arching concern for narrative interpretation as a means of
understanding, and providing a new perspective on, travel and
tourism.
Travel and tourism 'stories' have been told and recorded within
every culture, in every period of oral and written history, and
across the breadth of the fact/fiction continuum. Taking two broad
themes as its starting point - travellers and their narratives, and
place narratives in travel and tourism - the book has a
deliberately wide scope, with different chapters addressing the
subject through various relevant 'lenses' and in relation to a
number of different contexts. The narratives discussed include both
historical and contemporary, as well as 'real-life' and fictional,
narratives contained within travel writing, travel and tourism
stories and different types of media. In relation to the principal
themes of the book, some chapters also explore the importance of
collecting memorabilia and image making in the recording,
remembering, writing, telling or disseminating of stories about
travel and tourism experiences and some examine the ways in which
travel and tourism narratives may construct and reinforce personal,
collective and place identities. The whole book is marked by an
over-arching concern for narrative interpretation as a means of
understanding, and providing a new perspective on, travel and
tourism.
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