Arahan Pengembangan Koridor Basuki Rahmat Kawasan Kayutangan Kota Malang sebagai Heritage Tourism

The Core of Heritage Tourism

The paper challenges the idea that heritage tourism is simply represented by tourists at heritage attractions and suggests rather that perceptions more properly lie at its core. Relationships among four groups of variables (personal characteristics, site attributes, awareness, perceptions) and behavior (before, during, and after) are investigated. The results indicate that the perception of a p...

CONTEMPORARY TOURISM HERITAGE AS HERITAGE TOURISM Evidence from Las Vegas and Gold Coast

Four categories of contemporary tourism heritage were identified in this exploratory study of Las Vegas (Nevada, USA) and Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) based on location, originality and scale: (1) in situ representations that memorialize tourism and related phenomena through plaques, statues and/or festivals, (2) ex situ original items displayed and interpreted in museums, (3) in situ ori...

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

Performing Heritage: Rethinking Authenticity in Tourism

This paper explores how the dongba as the ritual practitioner perceives his authenticity during the marriage ceremony in the Naxi Wedding Courtyard in Lijiang, China. Through the dongba’s life story, the paper indicates that, the power of his making judgment is not entirely related to the toured objects, socially constructed reality or the existential feeling, but also has to do with what happe...

Tourism and Digitization of Cultural Heritage

In the contemporary society memory institutions experience great changes associated with digitization-the new method for preservation, education and access. Since in many cases memory institutions have the insufficient budgets, commercial promotion of cultural heritage can be seen as an alternative financial source indicating the possible niches, like cultural tourism, in the digital services m...