The Cultural Moment in Tourism

摘要

This book is one of many responses to the growing interest in both cultural tourism and heritage studies. It explicitly searches for a better definition of cultural tourism and a more coherent theorised understanding of the practices involved in it. The authors argue that much related literature focuses on simply describing cultural tourism from a supply-side perspective, with the resultant categorisation of cultural tourists according to their level of involvement in cultural tourism and their worth as a particular growing market segment. Hence this book seeks to redirect the approach by providing 'a theoretical account of what it means to be a cultural or heritage tourist'.