Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series
About the Book Series
The Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series offers a much-needed forum for original, innovative and cutting-edge research. This series is aimed at upper-level undergraduates, researchers and research students, as well as academics and policy-makers. Titles within the series are empirically and/or theoretically informed and explore a range of dynamic, diverse and topical areas, drawing across the humanities and social sciences to offer interdisciplinary perspectives. This series encourages new theoretical perspectives and showcases ground-breaking work that reflects the dynamism and vibrancy of heritage, tourism and cultural studies.
Areas of interest for the series are broad and multidisciplinary, including but not limited to:
- Industrial heritage
- Religion and spirituality
- Pilgrimage
- Dark tourism
- Health and heritage
- Archaeology and tourism
- Museums
- Social media and technology
- Youth and cultural heritage
- Genealogy and personal heritage
- Cultural trails
- Art and public art
- Heritage cuisine and foodways
- Intangible heritage
- Heritage tour management
- Visitor management and impacts
- The tourist/visitor experience
- Souvenirs
- Cultural tourism and authenticity
- Cultural parks
- Conservation and interpretation
- Heritage politics in tourism
- Slow tourism, culture and heritage
- Urban heritage
- Rural tourism and agriheritage
- Indigenous people and tourism
- Ethnicity and tourism
- Immigration, immigrants and diasporas
- Language and tourism
- Heritage tourism planning
To submit a book proposal or to discuss an idea, please contact Faye Leerink, Commissioning Editor: [email protected]
Navigating Polyvocal Heritage in a Postcolonial Cultural Landscape: Banda Islands, Indonesia
1st Edition
By Joëlla van Donkersgoed
September 30, 2025
This book explores the complex histories and heritage of the Banda Islands in Indonesia. By interweaving oral traditions with colonial and archaeological records, it examines polyvocality in heritage interpretation and the central role of communities in shaping their cultural landscapes. The book ...
Cultural Heritage Tourism Leadership: Perspectives on Human Dignity
1st Edition
By Mark L. Pickel
June 13, 2025
This book proposes a novel transformational humanistic leadership approach applied to cultural heritage tourism, based on humanistic values of human dignity, creativity, and autonomy and supported by a distinctive leadership ethos, purpose, and guiding principles that promote the betterment of ...
Multivocality in World Heritage: Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site, Norway
1st Edition
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By Inger Birkeland, Steffen F. Johannessen, Guro Nordby, Benjamin Richards
June 06, 2025
This book examines multivocality in 21st-century World Heritage management through an in-depth interdisciplinary exploration of the complexity and plurality of voices on the ground at a specific World Heritage site, offering new perspectives and insights into the established inherent tension ...
Adaptive Reuse in Latin America: Cultural Identity, Values and Memory
1st Edition
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By José Bernardi
April 14, 2025
This book seeks to explore the theoretical and architectural connections between memory, values, cultural identity, and adaptive reuse in Latin America. It does so by critically analyzing ideas and works within the context from where they emerge. With rich and layered historic centers, a wealth of ...
Tourism, Memorials and Landscapes of Violence: Remembering the Holocaust and the Pacific War
1st Edition
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By Rudi Hartmann
September 30, 2024
The book focuses on tourism, memorial sites of the Holocaust and the Pacific War and the management practices for the visitors that they attract. It provides an account of landscapes of violence as millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe, China, Japan and the United States were affected by...
Children, Young People and Dark Tourism
1st Edition
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By Mary Margaret Kerr, Philip R Stone, Rebecca H. Price
May 27, 2024
This book is the first its kind to offer an innovative examination of the intersecting influences, contexts, and challenges within the field of children’s dark tourism. It also outlines novel conceptualizations and methods for scholarship in this overlooked field. Presently, tourism research, and ...
Cultural Tourism and Cantonese Opera
1st Edition
By Jian Ming Luo
January 29, 2024
Cultural tourism is an experiential tourism based on searching for and participating in new and deep cultural experiences. This book enhances the tourism literature by testing the tourist attitude toward related issues of Cantonese Opera as a cultural product of the Greater Bay Area. This book ...
Tourism and Development in the Himalaya: Social, Environmental, and Economic Forces
1st Edition
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By Gyan P. Nyaupane, Dallen J. Timothy
January 29, 2024
This book examines the unique characteristics of the Himalaya that mark them as a special region among other orographic regions of the world. The Himalayan range is an important global asset for ecological, climatic, cultural, spiritual, and economic reasons. Its diversity of landscapes, climates, ...
Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Japan
1st Edition
By Takamitsu Jimura
May 31, 2023
This book offers a comprehensive understanding of cultural heritage in Japan and its relationship with both domestic and international tourism. Japan has witnessed an increase in tourism, with rising visitor numbers to both established destinations and lesser known sites. This has generated greater...
Medieval Imaginaries in Tourism, Heritage and the Media
1st Edition
By Jennifer Frost, Warwick Frost
May 31, 2023
This book examines the pervading influence of medieval culture, through an exploration of the intersections between tourism, heritage, and imaginaries of the medieval in the media. Drawing on examples from tourist destinations, heritage sites, fictional literature, television and cinema, the book ...
Resilience, Authenticity and Digital Heritage Tourism
1st Edition
By Deepak Chhabra
May 31, 2023
This book examines the authentication of authenticity in heritage tourism by using a resilient smart systems approach. It discusses the emerging trends in cultural tourism and outlines, in a detailed manner, their significance in negotiating authenticity in tourism experience. Authentication of ...
Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Africa
1st Edition
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By Dallen J. Timothy
March 13, 2023
Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Africa examines the multiple and diverse manifestations of cultural heritage-based tourism in Africa from a regional, social science, and sustainability perspective. This book delivers a comprehensive treatise on the interdependent concepts of cultural heritage and ...