The Future of Cultural Tourism
Published on 15. April 2025
Book
Hardback
246 pages
978-1-84541-928-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides multi-layered and nuanced perspectives on how drivers of change may influence cultural tourism on a global, national and local level. As such, it contributes to a greater understanding of how cultural tourism will be governed, performed and experienced within a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous future environment. The volume examines how the cultural tourism sector can address the needs of cultural tourists through product and service development, offers insights into alternative, post-anthropocentric values underpinning cultural tourism governance and consumption, and engages with immersive, collaborative, slow and technology-driven cultural heritage-based tourism experiences. The book includes both empirical and conceptual chapters, with the contributors suggesting various alternatives that are underpinned by utopian and/or dystopian outlooks on the likely future(s) of cultural tourism.
Chapter 8 is free to download as an open access publication under a CC BY NC ND licence. You can download it here: https://zenodo.org/records/14730188.
Chapter 8 is free to download as an open access publication under a CC BY NC ND licence. You can download it here: https://zenodo.org/records/14730188.
Reviews / Votes
A long-awaited and easily accessible volume that moves us into a new era of cultural tourism research and highlights key areas centred on governance, consumption, and technologies. It will be of great interest to those working in the areas of cultural studies, social geography, social anthropology, and tourism. * Kyle Maurice Woosnam, University of Georgia, USA * This book takes an original and critical approach to the study of cultural tourism. The authors engage with topical theories and alternative perspectives, proposing a cautiously optimistic vision of the future. New and inspiring insights are given into the potential for more regenerative, transformative and resilient forms of cultural tourism. * Melanie Smith, Budapest Business University, Hungary * The importance of cultural heritage to tourism and concerns about its fragility and sustainability in a dynamic world, particularly due to climate change and the pace of technological development, makes this edited book an extremely valuable, as well as fascinating read. Its chapters are diverse in their coverage and replete with thoughtful and well-researched analysis. * Jennifer Frost, La Trobe University, Australia * The Future of Cultural Tourism is of particular interest to both practitioners and researchers who wish to be at the forefront of potential changes in the field based on technological and social advancements. This book is also of interest to readers who wish to see how emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the metaverse, are being integrated into the tourism field. As a pioneering work that seeks to answer many 'what ifs' in the field of cultural tourism, this book provides readers with a thoughtful analysis of what the future of cultural tourism could look like while giving readers the chance to envision that future for themselves. * Stephanie A. Longo, Penn State Scranton, USA, Journal of Heritage Tourism, 2025 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Channel View Publications Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84541-928-8 (9781845419288)
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Xavier Matteucci | Simone Moretti
The Future of Cultural Tourism
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Persons
Xavier Matteucci is Adjunct Honorary Professor at IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences and Adjunct Faculty at both FHWien der WKW University of Applied Sciences and Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria. He is particularly interested in the influence of tourism/travel on individual and collective wellbeing as well as in the effects of globalisation processes and politics on regional cultures and cultural identities.
Simone Moretti is part of the Research Group Tourism Impacts on Society at Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, where he contributes to research activities and EU-funded projects focused on interventions to maximise the positive impacts of tourism and minimise the negative effects. His research centres on the intersection between tourism, culture, places and identities.
Simone Moretti is part of the Research Group Tourism Impacts on Society at Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, where he contributes to research activities and EU-funded projects focused on interventions to maximise the positive impacts of tourism and minimise the negative effects. His research centres on the intersection between tourism, culture, places and identities.
Content
Figures and Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Xavier Matteucci: The Future of Cultural Tourism: Utopia, Dystopia, Heterotopia
Part 1: Governance
Chapter 2. Prosper Wanner, Hakan Shearer Demir and Ivana Volic: Communities of Hospitality as a Democratic Governance Model for Host-Guest Interactions
Chapter 3. Ella Bjoern and Monika Luethje: Envisioning Posthumanist Cultural Tourism: Indigenous Sociomaterial Practices of Teaching Tourists about Local Cultures
Chapter 4. Lidija Petric, Ante Mandic and Davorka Mikulic: Fostering Sustainable and Resilient Rural Communities through Cultural Tourism Villages: A Case Study of the Dalmatian Hinterland
Chapter 5. Rouran Zhang, Weili Zhan, Ying Lyu and Da Kuang: Uncovering the Multifaceted Heritage Values of Longhushan World Natural Heritage Site through Tourists' Lens: An Analysis of Online Travelogues
Part 2: Consumption
Chapter 6. Jelena Farkic: Edifying Slow Cultural Tourism Concepts and Practices
Chapter 7. Dallen J. Timothy: Emerging Perspectives on the Future of Cultural Tourism
Chapter 8. Marta Sveb Dragija and Daniela Angelina Jelincic: Museums of the Future: Cultural Tourism Experiences for Wellbeing and Transformation
This chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at https://zenodo.org/records/14730188.
Part 3: Technologies
Chapter 9. Emanuele Mele: Cultural Tourists of the Future: Envisioning How Digital Technologies Can Shape Heritage Experiences in Europe
Chapter 10. Daniel W.M. Wright: Beyond Digital Prisons: Counterculture and the Hippie Trail Resurrected
Chapter 11. Ulrike Gretzel and Eva Sanchez-Amboage: Cultural Tourism in the Metaverse
Part 4: General Outlook
Chapter 12. Muzaffer Uysal and Jiahui Wang: Quality of Life and Cultural and Heritage Tourism
Chapter 13. Maurizio Scarciglia: Cultural Tourism as Cultural Adaptation: Urban Design Scenarios for the Future
Chapter 14. Simone Moretti and Xavier Matteucci: Uncharted Territories in Cultural Tourism: Synthesis and Some Personal Reflections
Index
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Xavier Matteucci: The Future of Cultural Tourism: Utopia, Dystopia, Heterotopia
Part 1: Governance
Chapter 2. Prosper Wanner, Hakan Shearer Demir and Ivana Volic: Communities of Hospitality as a Democratic Governance Model for Host-Guest Interactions
Chapter 3. Ella Bjoern and Monika Luethje: Envisioning Posthumanist Cultural Tourism: Indigenous Sociomaterial Practices of Teaching Tourists about Local Cultures
Chapter 4. Lidija Petric, Ante Mandic and Davorka Mikulic: Fostering Sustainable and Resilient Rural Communities through Cultural Tourism Villages: A Case Study of the Dalmatian Hinterland
Chapter 5. Rouran Zhang, Weili Zhan, Ying Lyu and Da Kuang: Uncovering the Multifaceted Heritage Values of Longhushan World Natural Heritage Site through Tourists' Lens: An Analysis of Online Travelogues
Part 2: Consumption
Chapter 6. Jelena Farkic: Edifying Slow Cultural Tourism Concepts and Practices
Chapter 7. Dallen J. Timothy: Emerging Perspectives on the Future of Cultural Tourism
Chapter 8. Marta Sveb Dragija and Daniela Angelina Jelincic: Museums of the Future: Cultural Tourism Experiences for Wellbeing and Transformation
This chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at https://zenodo.org/records/14730188.
Part 3: Technologies
Chapter 9. Emanuele Mele: Cultural Tourists of the Future: Envisioning How Digital Technologies Can Shape Heritage Experiences in Europe
Chapter 10. Daniel W.M. Wright: Beyond Digital Prisons: Counterculture and the Hippie Trail Resurrected
Chapter 11. Ulrike Gretzel and Eva Sanchez-Amboage: Cultural Tourism in the Metaverse
Part 4: General Outlook
Chapter 12. Muzaffer Uysal and Jiahui Wang: Quality of Life and Cultural and Heritage Tourism
Chapter 13. Maurizio Scarciglia: Cultural Tourism as Cultural Adaptation: Urban Design Scenarios for the Future
Chapter 14. Simone Moretti and Xavier Matteucci: Uncharted Territories in Cultural Tourism: Synthesis and Some Personal Reflections
Index