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Key Concepts in Tourist Studies provides a focused, quick reference guide for students exploring the fast growing and diverse field of tourist studies.Chosen by experienced teachers and researchers each concept defines, explains and develops a key topic in tourism and will act as a springboard for further reading and debate. This is an essential resource for all students of tourism.
Cultural Tourism
Cultural Tourism
Cultural tourism could be defined as tourism that focuses on cultural attractions, activities and practices as major motivating factors for travel. It can include a number of sub-sectors, such as Heritage Tourism, Arts Tourism, and Indigenous Tourism.
Cultural tourism has traditionally been difficult to define because of diverse and changing definitions of culture. The cultural theorist Raymond Williams (1976) once described culture as one of the most complex words in the English language, going on to define it as referring to both ‘the arts and learning’ and ‘a whole way of life’ of people. This means that culture is about the past and traditions (e.g. history and heritage), creative expression (e.g. works of art, performances), and also about peoples’ ways of living, their ...
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