Cultural sensitivity: Engaging difference in tourism

Engineers Engaging with Community: Negotiating Cultural Difference on Mine Sites

In this paper we scrutinize the concepts of culture and cultural relativism and argue that, despite difference in academic interpretations, they have relevance for engineers in their working lives. Engineers, particularly those who work for transnational resource companies, often confront different belief systems when they work on site. This article looks at the misunderstandings that can arise...

Cultural tourism: challenges and strategies

Ethnic Tourism and Cultural Representation

The representation of minority culture is central to ethnic tourism development. However, only limited attention has been paid to cultural representation in ethnic attractions. This research examines representations of multiple ethnic cultures in the Yunnan Ethnic Folk Villages, China. The perspectives from four key groups of stakeholders— governments, park managers, employees and tourists—are ...

Personal and Cultural Memories in War Tourism

The history and memories of past events are relayed through popular culture, the media and the public sphere. City tours organized for tourists can be said to be a special part of popular culture and the public sphere. Since 2006 there has been an organised war tour in the City of Dubrovnik which follows the “routes” of war aggression and the devastation of the town. In this paper, one such spe...

Intelligent Interactive Information Presentation for Cultural Tourism

Cultural heritage appreciation is a privileged area of application for innovative, natural– language centred applications. In this paper we discuss some of the opportunities and challenges with a specific view of intelligent information presentation, that takes into account the user characteristics and behaviour and the context of the interaction. We make reference to the new PEACH project, aim...