Indicators for Cultural and Creative Industries’ Impact Assessment on Cultural Heritage and Tourism

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

Chapter 88 Creative Tourism and Cultural Heritage : A New Perspective

This chapter analyses how cultural heritage destinations should evolve to keep pace with changes in the demand for cultural tourism. The empirical evidence shows that the most important heritage destinations suffer from a misalignment of their value propositions with respect to the new needs of cultural tourists. These types of gaps can be filled only by understanding the features and evolution...

ICON: Authentic 3D Cultural Heritage Models for the Creative Industries

Many UK museums are developing their expertise in the creation of 3D models of objects in their collection. To-date, these authentic, high-quality models have not been made available to the digital creative industries, who instead have relied on manually created models that cannot be relied on to be accurate. This paper introduces ICON, a cross-sector collaborative R&D project that is developin...

Cultural industries and creative clusters in Shanghai

This paper is based on a 3-year (2008–2011) research project (This project has received funding from Australian Research Council between 2008 and 2011. Project no. LP0991136. The official title of the project is ‘Designing Creative Clusters in Australian and China’. This project works in partnership between Queensland University of Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, ARUP and ‘Creative 10...

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...