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]
Cultural Heritage and Tourism in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
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 ...
Creating Heritage: Unrecognised Pasts and Rejected Futures
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Carter, David Harvey, Roy Jones, Iain Robertson
June 30, 2021
This book investigates the selection process of heritagisation to understand what specific pasts are being selected or rejected for representation, who is selecting them, how and to whom they are being represented and why they are being presented, or dismissed, in the ways that they are. Some ...
Deconstructing Eurocentric Tourism and Heritage Narratives in Mexican American Communities: Juan de Oñate as a West Texas Icon
1st Edition
By Frank G. Perez, Carlos F. Ortega
April 01, 2021
This book attempts to dismantle the unfounded Eurocentric view of US-born and immigrant Mexican peoples, that groups together the identities of Latinx, Chicanx, and other indigenous peoples of the Southwest into Hispanics whose contributions to the cultural, historical, and social development of ...
Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Wicke, Stefan Berger, Jana Golombek
June 30, 2020
Heritage is not what we see in front of us, it is what we make of it in our heads. Heritage sites have been connected to a range of identarian projects, both spatial and non-spatial. One of the most common links with heritage has been national identity. This book stresses that heritage has ...
Heritage of Death: Landscapes of Emotion, Memory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Mattias Frihammar, Helaine Silverman
December 12, 2019
Today, death is being reconceptualised around the world as heritage, replete with material markers and intangible performances. These heritages of death are personal, national and international. They are vernacular as well as official, sanctioned as well as alternative. This book brings together ...
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 ...