“Imported Buddhism” or “Co-Creation”? Buddhist Cultural Heritage and Sustainability of Tourism at the World Heritage Site of Lumbini, Nepal

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

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...

Resource Integration and Value Co-Creation in Cultural Heritage Management

Cultural Heritage-Management (CHM) in Italy appears to chronically suffer from resources fragmentation. The aim of this chapter is to highlight the need for a value co-creation logic based on resource integration in CHM to improve awareness and involve citizens, organizations and other stakeholders in the cultural heritage preservation and enhancement activities. The methodological approach ado...

Cultural Sustainability and Heritage Tourism: Problems in Developing Bun Festival Tourism in Hong Kong

This study contributes to the debate on tourism and local development through evaluating an ambivalent case of traditional festival revival and tourism development in Hong Kong: Bun Festival tourism in Cheung Chau Island. The significance of this case is that it will put into relief the significance of ‘cultural sustainability’— an evaluative factor that is very insufficiently emphasized and th...

Digital Cultural Heritage and Social Sustainability

This research investigated factors that were perceived to contribute to the social sustainability of cultural heritage information services. Semistructured interviews were conducted with sixteen users, guided by three broad questions: 1. What factors they consider are important for DCH services to be socially sustainable or to achieve social sustainability? 2. What indicators they perceive from...