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]
Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: The Real, the Virtual, and the Cinematic
1st Edition
Edited
By Erik Champion, Christina Lee, Jane Stadler, Robert Moses Peaslee
December 30, 2022
This book explores ways in which screen-based storyworlds transfix, transform, and transport us imaginatively, physically, and virtually to the places they depict or film. Topics include fantasy quests in computer games, celebrity walking tours, dark tourism sites, Hobbiton as theme park, surf ...
The Economics and Finance of Cultural Heritage: How to Make Tourist Attractions a Regional Economic Resource
1st Edition
By Vincenzo Pacelli, Edgardo Sica
May 06, 2022
This book analyses the economic and financial profiles of heritage assets as tourist attractions. Offering both theoretical insights, methods, and global empirical examples, it considers how heritage assets can create economic and social value for a region. It offers an analysis of micro- and ...
Waterways and the Cultural Landscape
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesco Vallerani, Francesco Visentin
July 12, 2019
Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation. In Europe, the regulation of major rivers, the digging of canals and the wetland reclamation schemes from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, generated new typologies of waterscapes with significant ...
Valuing World Heritage Cities
1st Edition
By Tanja Vahtikari
February 12, 2018
With its celebrated World Heritage List, UNESCO steers the global heritage agenda through the definition and redefinition of what constitutes heritage and by offering the highest-level forum for heritage professionalism. While it is the national governments that nominate sites for inclusion in the ...