Cultural Tourism and Sustainable Local Development.

ISBN:

9781351946919

Title:

Author:

Girard, Luigi Fusco.

Personal Author:

Girard, Luigi Fusco.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 pages)

Series:

New Directions in Tourism Analysis

Contents:

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Narrow Escapes: Pathways to Sustainable Local Cultural Tourism -- PART I: TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AS A SUSTAINABLE STRATEGY -- 2 Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Sustainability: Three 'Golden Rules' -- 3 Tourism and Development: Towards Sustainable Outcomes -- 4 Sustainable Development and Tourism: Opportunities and Threats to Cultural Heritage from Tourism -- 5 Valuing Urban Cultural Heritage -- PART II: POLICIES ON SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AND CUL TURAL RESOURCES -- 6 Cultural Heritage, Local Resources and Sustainable Tourism: Towards an Operational Framework for Policy and Planning -- 7 Juridical and Political Tools for a Sustainable Development of Tourism: Present Context and Future Perspectives -- 8 Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Economic Development: A Proposal for Southern Italy -- 9 Sustainable Tourism, Renewable Energy and Transportation -- PART III: CASE STUDIES -- 10 Local Government and Networking Trends Supporting Sustainable Tourism: Some Empirical Evidence -- 11 Cultural Tourism, Sustainability and Regional Development: Experiences from Romania -- 12 Tourism Sustainability and Economic Efficiency: A Statistical Analysis of Italian Provinces -- 13 Valorisation Strategies for Archaeological Sites and Settings of Environmental Value: Lessons from the Adriatic Coast -- 14 Utility and Visitor Preferences for Attributes of Art Galleries -- PART IV: NEW DEPARTURES FOR EVALUATION -- 15 Tourism, Cultural Heritage and Strategic Evaluations: Towards Integrated Approaches -- 16 Restoring Roadman's Houses in Sardinia, Italy: A Multicriteria Decision Support System for Tourism Planning -- 17 From Cultural Tourism to Cultural E-Tourism: Issues and Challenges to Economic Valuation in the Information Era.

18 Evaluating the Impacts of Heritage Policies: Landmark Preservation in Chicago, 1990-99 -- 19 Culture, Tourism and the Locality: Ways Forward -- Index.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Heritage tourism.

Added Author:

Nijkamp, Peter.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

Florence :

Taylor and Francis,

2009.

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Summary

With the exponential rise in leisure mobility, tourism has increasingly become of great economic significance. Cultural heritage, such as museums, churches, historical landscapes, urban parks, and exhibitions attract many visitors and countries, regions and cities which house such historic-cultural amenities have seen increasingly large waves of tourists. While an avalanche of tourists has a positive impact on the local economy, such modern mass tourism also brings about negative externalities such as congestion, decline in quality of life, low access to cultural amenities and loss of local identity; to the extent that the sustainability conditions of a locality might be endangered. This tourism dilemma is particularly pronounced in cities with a rich cultural past, such as Venice, Naples and Amsterdam. Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars from North America and Europe, this book examines the interface of local cultural resources and modern mass tourism from a sustainability perspective. It puts forward innovative methodologies and best case practice for future cultural conservation policies.

Author Notes

Luigi Fusco Girard is Professor of Conservation of Cultural and Environment Heritage at the University of Naples Federico 2, Italy and Peter Nijkamp is Professor of Spatial Economics at the Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.