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The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management is a critical, state-of-the-art and authoritative review of tourism management, written by leading international thinkers and academics in the field. With a strong focus on applications of theories and concepts to tourism, the chapters in this volume are framed as critical synoptic pieces covering key developments, current issues and debates, and emerging trends and future considerations for the field. Part One: Approaching Tourism Part Two: Destination Applications Part Three: Marketing Applications Part Four: Tourism Product Markets Part Five: Technological Applications Part Six: Environmental Applications This handbook offers a fresh, contemporary and definitive look at tourism management, making it an essential resource for academics, researchers and students.
Managing Built Heritage Resources
Managing Built Heritage Resources
Introduction
The awareness about the tourism potential of cultural resources has always been there, yet the exponential and global growth of the tourism market since the 2000s has created new challenges in terms of dynamic preservation, territorial management, inclusion and exclusion, social and economic balances. The concept of (public) heritage was introduced in the twentieth century as a – mainly top down – cultural movement, supported by international lobbies and hidden agendas.
The process of heritagization needs to be understood as the development of a set of cultural values given to the past to recreate cultural identities, eventually becoming economic values to build a future of places ...
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