Creating Heritage for Tourism

What does 'heritage' mean in the 21st century? This book furthers understanding on how heritage is socially constructed; how it is created in the present, how it is 'used', interpreted and experienced within different geographic and cultural contexts, in both western and non - western settings.

1 Heritage for tourism: creating a link between the past and the present Catherine Palmer and Jacqueline Tivers 2 Creating a destination through language: Welsh linguistic heritage in Patagonia Kimberly Berg 3 Performing national identity in heritage tourism: observations from Catalonia Venetia Johannes 4 Heritage defined and maintained through conflict re-enactments: the Estonian Museum of Occupations and the Forest Brothers Bunker Brent Mckenzie 5 Constructing heritage, shaping tourism: Festivals and local heritage governance at Hampi World Heritage Site, Karnataka, India Krupa Rajangam 6 Creating heritage for cruise tourists Jacqueline Tivers 7 `It's tango!': communicating intangible cultural heritage for the dance tourist Jonathan Skinner 8 Holmes as heritage: readers, tourism and the making of Sherlock Holmes's England David Mclaughlin 9 Creating heritage for tourism: `consuming history,' `prosthetic memories' and the popularisation of a folk hero's story Michael Fagence 10 Creating (extra)ordinary heritage through film-induced tourism: the case of Dubrovnik and Game of Thrones Tina Segota 11 Amachan: the creation of heritage tourism landscapes in Japan after the 2011 triple disaster Duccio Gasparri and Annaclaudia Martini 12 Bedrock, metropolis and Indigenous heritage: rendering `The Rocks' invisible Felicity Picken, Hayley Saul and Emma Waterton 13 Between the cliffs and the sea: St Kilda and heritage from afar George S. Jaramillo and Alan Hooper 14 Made in China: creating heritage through tourist souvenirs Penny Grennan 15 Creative practices of local entrepreneurs reinventing built heritage Giovanna Bertella and Maurizio Droli 16 Co-creating a heritage hotel for a new identity Philip Feifan Xie and William Ling Shi 17 Turkish coffee: from intangible cultural heritage to created tourist experience Ilkay Tas Gursoy 18 The reinvention of crab fishing as a local heritage tourism attraction in Northeast Brazil Claudio Milano 19 Creating biocultural heritage for tourism: the case of mycological tourism in central Mexico Humberto Thome-Ortiz 20 (Re)creating natural heritage in New Zealand: biodiversity conservation and tourism development Guojie Zhang, James Higham and Julia Nina Albrecht