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Mapping online viewers’ social and non-social emotions using the lens of watching UNESCO cultural heritage sites’ travel vlogs Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2024-03-18 John Christopher B. Mesana, Allan B. de Guzman, Crisantha Q. Valencia, John Prince C. Basister
Emotions are highly influential variables in tourism. While emotions have gained momentum and have been regularly studied by tourism scholars in various aspects of tourism, social and non-social em...
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How authenticity is negotiated and experienced by clergy and tourists at religious World Heritage sites: taking a closer look into the ‘preserve as found’ strategy Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Alexis Thouki
Drawing on an existing debate regarding the conservation of living heritage, this paper delves into the dissonance and contestation that emerges during the aesthetic treatment of religious wall pai...
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Toward a theoretical framework of diaspora festivals: concepts and typologies Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Ermias Kifle Gedecho
This research aims to conceptualize and categorize diaspora festivals. The study defines diaspora festivals as events organized by diaspora or transnational associations, public organizations, or e...
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Real in virtual or virtual in real? Intersecting virtual and real experience in open-world video games and heritage tourism Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Kyungjae Jang
The increasing numbers of open-world games provide a sense of immersion, as if users were in a virtual world, by guaranteeing free movement within that world. One example is Ghost of Tsushima, a ga...
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Let’s see the whole picture: a multi-platform visual analysis of historic Mission San José on Instagram, Pinterest, Flickr, and TripAdvisor Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Melissa McMullen
Tourists frequently research, plan, and reflect on their travel experiences online via social networking sites (SNSs). While past tourism research suggests that differences exist in the type of con...
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However, what is legitimacy? Residents’ perception of the legitimacy of a Brazilian ethnic-cultural festival Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Thamires Foletto Fiuza, Fabricia Durieux Zucco, Gustavo Behling, Fernanda de Souza Farias
Despite being considered a solid and widely explored topic in the organisational context, legitimacy still needs more academic participation in empirical research in tourism. The same is true of fe...
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Conceptualizing visitors’ experience in heritage hotels using big data Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Rojan Baniya, Brijesh Thapa
The main aim of this study is to conceptualize visitors’ experience in heritage hotels by using organic data in the form of Tripadvisor reviews and ratings of the people who stayed in heritage hote...
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Residents’ emotional and behavioral responses to visiting Maras (Varosha) as a dark tourism spot Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Niusha Talebzadeh, Ilkay Yorganci, Saeid Nosrati, Cemal Kilic
Drawing upon evolutionary explanations of emotions and social appraisal theory, the present study investigated the emotional and behavioral responses exhibited by residents of Varosha during their ...
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Intangible cultural heritage and tourism in China: a critical approach Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Xiaoxiao Fu
Published in Journal of Heritage Tourism (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2024)
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World heritage classification and tourism: divergent trajectories in Marrakech Medina (Morocco) and M’Zab Valley (Algeria) Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Naimeh Rezaei, Jordi Nofre, Zahed Ghaderi
This study aims to explore the reasons that have led to unequal tourism development between the two World Heritage Sites in Little Maghreb, in Northern Africa: the Marrakech Medina in Morocco and t...
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The origins of the Canadian Birkebeiner Ski Festival: invented traditions, winter sportscapes, and heritage sport tourism in sustainability and the UNESCO Beaver Hills Biosphere Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2024-01-10 PearlAnn Reichwein
The Canadian Birkebeiner Ski Festival emerged as the world’s third Birkebeiner cross-country ski loppet in 1985, emulating the Norwegian Birkebeiner and the American Birkebeiner. This study examine...
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Discovering the authenticity of a Liberation Cultural Heritage experience in South Africa: a market segmentation approach Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Babalwa Mgxekwa-Qumba, Martinette Kruger
This research addresses a significant gap in the literature concerning the authenticity of tourism experiences, particularly in the context of cultural heritage sites. It focuses specifically on vi...
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Investigating guest books at heritage hotels: a forensic approach Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Ariel Zoltán Mitev, Anna Irimiás
This paper presents a novel method based on the logic of the criminal approach, which we have called ‘guest book investigation.’ The aim is to uncover a unique, immersive story that can be used in ...
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Having metaphors beyond branding: evidence from a heritage hotel, Pera Palace Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Cevat Tosun, Caner Çalışkan, Seçkin Kodal, Bekir Bora Dedeoğlu
This study examined how some metaphoric historical events, endowed with an important background in literature, culture, policy, and art, contribute to the brand value for hospitality companies, wit...
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Understanding a virtual heritage site through the lens of telepresence and virtual destination image Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Chris Zhu, Lawrence Hoc Nang Fong, Colin Michael Hall, Silin She, Sara Naderi Koupaei
The experience of heritage sites through digital technology is an increasingly important topic for researchers and practitioners. Drawing upon telepresence theory, this study explores how a visitor...
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Demystifying dark tourism to develop a future agenda for research: a structured review with bibliometric and TCCM analysis Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Poornima, Shailesh Pandita, Hari Govind Mishra, Aasif Ali Bhat
This study aims to conduct a systematic review of the literature on dark tourism to summarize the multiple studies under one paper and identify the latest trends that have influenced dark tourism. ...
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Assessing the impact of selfie-taking tourists on local tour guides in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: a netnographic analysis of a dark tourism location Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Sofia Heleena Laaksonen, Peter Varga
Self-portrayed photographs, more commonly known as selfies, are a modern way of expressing oneself at popular tourist destinations. Selfies enable individuals to be seen by others on the web. There...
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Using destination reviews to explore tourists’ sensory experiences at Christmas markets in Germany and Austria Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Murray Parker, Dirk H. R. Spennemann, Jennifer Bond
Christmas markets in Germany and Austria exhibit historic, mercantile, social and experiential dimensions, entrenching them both as a form of heritage and as visitable sites of society and culture,...
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Heritage trails and the framing of place authenticity in Belfast’s Titanic memoryscape Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Jason Grek-Martin
Titanic heritage tourism has recently become a major objective in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as civic leaders look to leverage the infamous liner’s local origins to advance the city’s post-industri...
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A re-positioning of post-industrial heritage in upper Silesia, Poland, into an integrated thematic tourist route Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Adam R. Szromek, Richard W. Butler
Cultural heritage tourism illustrated by tourists visiting post-industrial facilities became one of the ways to counteract the negative consequences of declining heavy industry at the end of the tw...
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Reflections on tourists’ experiential engagement with Scotland’s whisky heritage Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Prokopis A. Christou, Dallen J. Timothy, Katerina Pericleous
This study investigates how tourists engage with heritage at contemporary experiential sites that have become popular amongst visitors and vital ambassadors of a destination’s heritage. Grounded in...
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Smart positioning: how smart technologies can increase the attractiveness of heritage tourism destinations? The case of a small-scale Hungarian heritage city Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Ivett Pinke-Sziva, Krisztina Keller, László Kovács
Small-scale heritage towns usually face fierce competition from surrounding destinations, particularly in peripheral rural areas where tourism holds important possibilities for regional development...
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Bending history into heritage at hidden Christian sites in Nagasaki, Japan: UNESCO World Heritage site designation and tourism Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Atsuko Hashimoto, David J. Telfer
A UNESCO World Heritage site designation is seen as a pathway to developing sustainable tourism and increasing opportunities to receive funding for the maintenance and management of the site. Howev...
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‘We gave the city its image and put it on the map.’: intangible cultural heritage and city branding in Buenos Aires and Valencia Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Camila del Mármol, Beatriz Santamarina
In this article, we propose an analysis of the intangible heritagization of elements in urban settings as it relates to the promotion of a city brand, within the context of a fast rise of urban pla...
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The rise of paranormal investigations as virtual dark tourism on YouTube Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Nicole Basaraba
This paper proposes the rising popularity of paranormal investigations on YouTube as a new form of armchair travel, namely virtual dark tourism. To support this discovery, this study gathered stati...
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Let’s listen: the voices of ethnic villagers in identifying host-tourist interaction issues in the Central Highlands, Vietnam Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Kieu T.T. Nguyen, Laurie Murphy, Tingzhen Chen, Philip L. Pearce
Host-tourist interaction is a core attraction of ethnic tourism. Yet both parties may confront challenges in such interactions because of different cultural backgrounds. This study aims to investig...
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Globalisation, crafts, and tourism microentrepreneurship in the South Pacific: economic and sociocultural dimensions Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Alexander Trupp, Chetan Shah, Michael Hitchcock
ABSTRACT This research assesses the economic and sociocultural dimensions of the handicraft and souvenir sector from the perspectives of predominantly female market vendors and microbusinesses in the South Pacific region. It focuses on two countries, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, which vary in their levels of tourism development, tourist characteristics, and available research on tourism impacts
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Slovenian folk-pop music as a place and nation making strategy between heritage and popular culture Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Jasmina Šepetavc, Natalija Majsova
Cultural heritage tourism partly depends on authorized heritage definitions, and partly on complex bottom-up processes of heritage identification, interpretation, and communication. This paper addr...
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Thermal impact of tourist visits on the microclimate in the Cap Blanc shelter, Dordogne, France Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Fabien Salmon, Louis Hartz, Marc Martinez, Jean-Christophe Portais, Philippe Malaurent, Delphine Lacanette
Tourism is a growing concern for the conservation of heritage sites. In the Dordogne, the Cap Blanc shelter attracts many visitors and their presence may affect its parietal frieze by altering the ...
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Reproduction of catacomb paintings in postcards and their use as museum tools between the nineteenth and the twentieth century: the case of the catacomb of Calixtus Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Chiara Cecalupo
This article presents a set of old postcards of the catacombs of Callixtus and an unpublished tourist booklet belonging to the same timeframe. It analyses them from the point of view of heritage to...
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A review and SWOC analysis of natural heritage tourism in sub-Saharan Africa Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Chiedza N. Mutanga, Oluwatoyin D. Kolawole, Reniko Gondo, Joseph E. Mbaiwa
The paper analyses the state of natural heritage tourism in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and assesses its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges (SWOC), accordingly. Data were obtained fr...
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Exploring travel blogs on tourism and landscape heritage: representations of the Swiss Alps Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Emanuele Mele, Linde Egberts
Alpine tourism is one of the most popular forms of travel. Despite the prominence of information and communication technology in shaping travel perceptions and behaviour, a research gap has been id...
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Space, identity and festivals. Spatial empowerment and the construction of identity discourses through the lens of heritage festival organizers Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Francesc González-Reverté
The study analyzes the discourse on local identity developed by festival organizers in a heritage city with emerging tourism development (Tarragona, Spain). Drawing on the concept of spatiality and...
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Hokkien Chinese diaspora visitors’ image construction of their ancestral hometown: the role of the tourist gaze Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Qiang Wang, Alexandra Witte
This study examines how diaspora tourists’ secondary and primary image of their ancestral home is constructed and how the tourist gaze is implied within. The study focuses on the Hokkien Chinese di...
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Evaluating resident attitudes on German industrial heritage and tourism using the sustainable tourism attitude scale in Vojvodina, Serbia Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Aleksandra Dragin, Maja Mijatov Ladičorbić, Vladimir Stojanović, Lazar Lazić, Biserka Komnenić, Jelena Damnjanović, Adam Carmer, Brooke Hansen
The main aim of this study was to research the way in which the local community members' socio-demographic characteristics, on the one hand, and presentation of the industrial heritage, on the othe...
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Contagious behaviour or not? Tourists’ skills and practices in a Norwegian church Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Kjersti Karijord Smørvik
Tourist-to-tourist interaction takes place in many forms at attractions such as museums, churches and historical sites. In many settings, this interaction is a well-functioning part of the tourist ...
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Professional competence development of heritage guides Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Xinyi Jiang, Sharif Shams Imon, Zhaoyu Chen
ABSTRACT This paper explores the critical issues regarding heritage guides’ professional competence development in Macao – a prominent tourist destination – by analysing the current competence development system. The data is collected through semi-structured interviews with professional heritage guides and trainers who lead the guide training programme in Macao. Additionally, official documents and
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Participatory governance of intangible heritage to develop sustainable rural tourism: the timber-raftsmen of La Pobla de Segur, Spain Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Isabel Paulino, Carlos Burgos-Tartera, Silvia Aulet
ABSTRACT Rural areas face the challenge of managing intangible heritage in ways that avoid problems such as the loss of authenticity linked to over-tourism, or living heritage becoming disconnected from the local community due to overprotection. This study explores an innovative method for promoting a participatory governance process for intangible heritage currently managed on a non-participatory
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Heritage storytelling in destination marketing: cases from Malaysian states Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Andreas H. Zins, Adamu Abbas Adamu
ABSTRACT Destination image ranks top of the most prominently researched topics in tourism. Storytelling will probably follow soon but shares already today the same attention bias, particularly in the research community: Studies into the planning and managerial perspective of intended and projected destination images are as scarce as studies into the use, structure, and content of storytelling principles
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Bonnie and Clyde’s extrajudicial killing: Gibsland, Louisiana’s dark tourism Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-07-14 William N. Holden
ABSTRACT Discussing Gibsland, Louisiana’s Authentic Bonnie and Clyde Festival as dark tourism, this article asks whether the site of two peoples’ extrajudicial killing constitutes a dark tourist destination. Dark tourism is tourism associated with death. Gibsland is where Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed, and extrajudicially killed, by a posse of law enforcement officers on 23 May 1934
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Using social exchange theory to examine residents’ responses to heritage tourism: case studies of Samarqand and Bukhara in Uzbekistan Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Azizbek Allaberganov, Pippa Catterall
There have been numerous studies of the impact of tourism on local communities. This qualitative study uses social exchange theory to examine tourism’s effects on local communities in Samarqand and...
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Embarking on a ‘(birth)rite of passage’: exploring the role of liminality and youth transitions in diaspora tourism motivation Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Julia Kantek
ABSTRACT Motivations to participate in diaspora tourism ‘birthright’ programs have widely encompassed themes of heritage exploration, including a desire to develop personalised attachments to people, places, and memories connected to ancestral heritage or a ‘homeland’. Despite the popularity of such programs among young members from the diaspora, the additional role that life course positioning plays
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Residents’ perception of tourism impacts and their support for tourism development: a study of a Bektashi faith destination in Türkiye Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Ibrahim Cifci, Orhan Akova, S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, Mert Ogretmenoglu
ABSTRACT Prior research has broadly addressed the link between residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts and their support for tourism development (STD) in different destination-based contexts. However, the literature on residents’ perceptions of the impacts of tourism on their faith and how these perceptions affect their STD in a faith tourism destination remains tenuous. This study seeks to fill
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50 dark destinations: crime and contemporary tourism Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Brianna Wyatt
Published in Journal of Heritage Tourism (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The solo pilgrim phenomenon on the Journey to Santiago de Compostela in Spain Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Jiri Malis, David Masilka, Kristyna Janeckova
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the advantages of pilgrimage for modern-day people, trying to find and describe phenomena that are integral to the pilgrim experience. The aim is to investigate this experience holistically, without any a priori focus on a specific phenomenon. The qualitatively-oriented research was based on semi-structured interviews conducted with seven Czech pilgrims, after their experience
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Nostalgia and tourism Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Anna Earl, C. Michael Hall
ABSTRACT For most of the past 300 years, the concept of nostalgia has been regarded as a medical condition. However, since the 1980s, it has become heavily associated with the ‘heritage industry’ and the creation of consumer experiences, especially in a tourism and leisure context. This special issue on nostalgia and tourism aims to encourage and advance the scholarly conversation about the relationship
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Promoting the thrills: a study of emotional reactions to advertisements for fright tourism heritage attractions Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Susan Weidmann, Sebastian Filep, Brent Lovelock
ABSTRACT The paper examines emotions generated in potential visitors through the promotional imagery used in fright tourism, a form of dark heritage tourism. In fright tourism, an unusual combination of human emotions of fun and fear are experienced by tourists through activities such as haunted house visits and ghost tours. A modified model, based on Russell’s [1980. A circumplex model of affect.
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Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy: towards a people-centred heritage branding approach Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Mohamed Amer, Manal Ginzarly, Maria-Francesca Renzi
ABSTRACT The valorization of the UNESCO WHC emblem as a brand icon overlooks the marketing statement of local heritage sites that are not designated as world heritage. This practice leads to competition rather than collaboration which could result in endangering the intangible cultural heritage expressions and authentic cultural knowledge. Moreover, the tourism market deals mostly with the cultural
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Heritage tourism and terrorism: media coverage of the destruction and rebuilding of Jahanabad Seated Buddha in Pakistan Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Farhad Nazir, Ana Maria Caldeira, Cláudia Seabra
ABSTRACT This paper scrutinizes the media coverage regarding Jahanabad Seated Buddhist statue, in Pakistan, considering both its destruction in 2007 and the subsequent restoration campaign, using content analysis of audio-visual and textual news. Based on 41 online news archives (broadcast on national, regional, and global news outlets), the findings unravel the marginalized narratives of the local
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Effects of heritage on destination image: multi-method research based on an appraisal approach to emotional response in-situ Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Marcelo Royo Vela, Alexis Garzón Paredes
ABSTRACT The research objective is to test the effects of heritage on the Tourist Destination Image formation. A multi-method quantitative approach applying surveys and neuromarketing were applied. Three different surveys were carried out in three different moments of the touristic visit to measure the heritage impact on the dynamics of destination image. Furthermore, a neuromarketing experiment using
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Generativity and inheritance: understanding Generation Z’s intention to participate in cultural heritage tourism Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Guan-Ming Wu, Shi-Ru Chen, Yu-Hua Xu
ABSTRACT Cultural heritage tourism (CHT) has become increasingly popular among the general public, enriching tourists’ cultural experiences and realizing their generative needs. However, limited academic attention has been paid to the research on young people’s generative needs in CHT. Therefore, this study investigated college students’ generativity and developed an extended TPB model to explore the
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A cognitive appraisal perspective of emotional accessibility at heritage sites: empirical evidence from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Petra Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Zaid Alrawadieh, Girish Prayag, Ziad Alrawadieh
ABSTRACT The emotional aspects of heritage experiences remain so far under-researched with the emotional accessibility at such sites ignored. Using cognitive appraisal theory (CAT) and reversal theory, this study evaluates the role of motivation, tourism impacts, emotional accessibility, and felt emotions in determining tourist satisfaction at heritage sites. Based on a sample of 1531 international
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Carbon footprints of travel to World Heritage Sites: communicating climate to potential tourists through a consumption-based life-cycle assessment Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Ellen J. Platts, Holly L. Keifer, Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels
ABSTRACT In this study, an input-output-based hybrid life cycle assessment method is used to calculate the carbon footprint of a tourist’s travel to sixteen United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites (WHS) including direct and indirect emissions. The carbon footprint of three trip styles (budget, mid-range expenses, and high-end) is calculated for
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Tourism and sustainability at a crossroads in Shiretoko UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site in Japan Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Abhik Chakraborty, Takeshi Takenaka
ABSTRACT Sensitive natural environments of World Natural Heritage Sites (WNHS) are prone to damage from anthropogenic stressors including tourism. This article analyzes the case of Shiretoko Peninsula in Japan and identifies several challenges for natural heritage tourism. Shiretoko Peninsula is known for the connectivity between rich marine and terrestrial ecosystems symbolized by the formation of
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Transformed landscapes, tourist sentiments: the place making narrative of a luxury heritage hotel in Singapore Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-02-01 K. Thirumaran, Zohre Mohammadi, Simona Azzali, Emiel L. Eijdenberg, Gerardine Donough-Tan
ABSTRACT The position of heritage hotels in place making narratives is not secure, given the challenges of new local developments and larger international forces. This research examines Singapore’s iconic luxury heritage hotel, Raffles Singapore, against the relatively new hotels, The Fullerton Hotel Singapore and Marina Bay Sands, to identify the nexus between the island city-state’s historical and
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Tourist photography and heritage. The case of the abandoned city of Pripyat Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Anna Duda
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to present photography as an effective method for exploring abandoned heritage sites. The example of Pripyat – a city a few kilometres away from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant – will show the attitude of tourists towards a place which today is of undoubted cultural and historical value, but which is also an abandoned place. By means of semiotic and hermeneutic
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Is heritage tourism a panacea for rural decline? A comparative study of the Camino de Santiago and the Canal de Castilla in Spain Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Luis Alfonso Hortelano Mínguez, Jan Mansvelt Beck
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to establish whether fostering rural tourism by reuse and promotion of heritage has been able to mitigate the demographic decline in a depopulating area of Spain. Two types of route-based tourism in the north-west of Castile are compared, namely the millenary pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela and the nineteenth-century Castile Canal. For three decades, public
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Museums portraying indigenous heritage: the case of Sámi museums in Sweden Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Richard Pettersson, Dieter K. Müller
ABSTRACT A major attraction in Arctic tourism is the presence of indigenous cultures. However, many tourists have only limited opportunities to access indigenous culture and sites, as long as they are not spatially and temporally fixed. This puts museums at the center of attention and gives them a core role in portraying and interpreting indigenous heritage. A dual role with the responsibility to collect
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Can cultural heritage be a successful strategy as a tourist experience? The case of tourist establishments in the mountains of Valencia, Spain Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Antonio Vidal-Matzanke, Hector Esteve-Ibáñez, Pablo Vidal-González
ABSTRACT The relationship between tourism and heritage has increased exponentially in recent years. According to the scientific literature, linking heritage to tourism promotes and improves the quality of the visitor experience. The main objective of this research is to identify the main heritage elements linked to tourism and the problems that may arise due to poor management of these heritage elements
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The impacts of armed conflicts on the heritage tourism of Dessie and its environs, Northern Ethiopia Journal of Heritage Tourism Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Mohammed Jemal Ahmed, Aminat Abdu Oumer
ABSTRACT This study focuses on the impacts of war on cultural tourism within the context of northern Ethiopia, which is a known cultural tourism destination in the country. Ethiopia, one source of ancient civilization in the African continent, has kept a unique heritage treasure in different parts of its land. Its northern part is particularly rich in cultural heritage. During the ongoing war in northern