Strengthening the Capacity of Partnership-Based Cultural Heritage Management to Increase Tourism Visits

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...

Virtual visits to cultural heritage supported by web-agents

The integration between information technologies and cultural heritage can impact on everyday life, both from the point of view of institutions and of users. The cultural heritage community have recently been attracted by the chance offered by information technology, and, in particular, by the possibility of making cultural information available to a wide range of people. Museums, exhibitions a...

Cultural Heritage and Identity in the Contemporary Tourism Development

Culture and heritage have been increasingly recognised as means of sustainable social and economic development and an important element of tourist motivation. However, the recent development of cultural tourism indicates the problem of massification, offering conventional products based on serial reproductions of culture. Due to factors such as globalisation and the importance of cultural diver...

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...