CULTURAL TOURISM AS A UNIQUE FORM OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM – CULTURAL RESOURCES AS TOURISM OFFER FACTORS

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

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 ...

Cultural tourism: challenges and strategies

Information Technology for Management and Promotion of Sustainable Cultural Tourism

This paper suggests that many of the negative effects of globalization and inadequate tourism growth can be compensate by the use of intelligent ICT solutions in the development of heritage tourism. The encounter between cultural tourism and information and communication technologies represents an opportunity to preserve national culture, create partnership and enhance destinations value in inf...

Sustainable Cultural Tourism in Urban Destinations: Does Space Matter?

Policy makers and tourism developers must understand visitors’ mobility behavior and how they consume space and tourism resources in order to set up sustainable cultural tourism destinations. With this in mind, it should also be pointed out that the mobility patterns of tourists in urban destinations are mainly located in the city center (spatial centrality), the analysis of which enables us to...