{"title":"Softly enhancing political legitimacy via Red Tourism","authors":"Tony Yan, M. Hyman","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2174440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2174440","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Political legitimacy-building and tourism studies help to explain how and why China’s governing regime advanced Red Tourism to justify and reinforce its governance and legitimacy. A historical analysis of multilevel Chinese sources shows that the expressivity and value-ladenness that characterize visits to select historical sites permit governing regimes to softly augment their political legitimacy via political identity formation, political meaning framing, and nationalistic mobilization.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41751087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Authenticity and tourism development: the simple problem of incense at Cham living heritage sites in Vietnam","authors":"Quang Dai Tuyen, W. Noseworthy","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2022.2149336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2022.2149336","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article details the perception of indigenous Cham communities in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) with regard to the concept of authenticity. Based upon a combination of historical and anthropological methods, including interviews conducted in the Cham and Vietnamese language, and participant observation, between 2012 and 2017, we found government officials have imposed their own concept of authenticity on indigenous heritage sites, favouring tourist development. This includes the apparently mundane use of joss-stick incense. Consequentially, members of the Cham community are distraught. Incensed over incense, in a sense, they contend this is a violation of their customary practices and therefore inauthentic. Hence, we argue that if indigenous culture is over commodified, without respect for what may appear to be simple regulations, tensions will emerge, creating the perception from within the community that outside forces are collaborating to lead to the destruction of the indigenous heritage site. An alternative approach is to view the concepts of living heritage as foundational in cases where indigenous heritage is promoted for the sake of tourists. This alternative approach would lead to a decrease in potential tensions, while balancing needs of the community and tourist industry.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46622767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carbon footprints of travel to World Heritage Sites: communicating climate to potential tourists through a consumption-based life-cycle assessment","authors":"Ellen J. Platts, H. Keifer, K. Samuels","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2171297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2171297","url":null,"abstract":"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 each WHS, reflecting options available to heritage tourists. This study is part of a more extensive study that created a climate communication recognition scheme (CCRS) for UNESCO WHS to communicate information about climate change to potential tourists and heritage site managers, elaborating and extending upon communication tools such as environmental product information schemes, certifications, and ecolabels. The results are intended for educational purposes and contribute to a holistic approach to carbon management in heritage tourism. The results are available online as an ArcGIS StoryMap titled Climate Footprints of Heritage Tourism.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46093678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tourism and sustainability at a crossroads in Shiretoko UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site in Japan","authors":"Abhik Chakraborty, Takeshi Takenaka","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2169614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2169614","url":null,"abstract":"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 seasonal sea ice and the occurrence of several endangered species. However, the natural environment remains fragmented and visitor increase creates new pressure on the fragile ecosystems. Based on a visitor survey, multiple stakeholder interviews, and participant observation, this study identified problems such as low stakeholder awareness of ongoing environmental change and fragmentation of ecosystems in the WNHS area, emergence of tourism and ocular consumption of wildlife as novel stressors, lack of effective science communication skills in guides, and inadequate utilization of visitor centers. In addition, inadequate legal protection of endangered species, prevalence of a species control approach in the local management, and a lack of multilingual skills among local guides affect the site. This situation necessitates an open and critical dialogue between ecological experts, heritage managers, local inhabitants, and tourists, as well as a holistic understanding of the complex challenges affecting the natural environment of the place.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44055320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Thirumaran, Zohre Mohammadi, Simona Azzali, Emiel L. Eijdenberg, Gerardine Donough-Tan
{"title":"Transformed landscapes, tourist sentiments: the place making narrative of a luxury heritage hotel in Singapore","authors":"K. Thirumaran, Zohre Mohammadi, Simona Azzali, Emiel L. Eijdenberg, Gerardine Donough-Tan","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2169151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2169151","url":null,"abstract":"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 contemporary position in the changing hospitality landscape, specifically addressing the concept of place making as a dynamic narrative. Applying sentiment analysis, 454 hotel guest reviews on internationally recognized travel websites were examined. The findings suggest that the dominance of a luxury heritage hotel in the narratives of place making can shift over time, subject to postmodern architectural developments in the hotel landscape and competition from other luxury heritage hotels with iconic and location histories. A key contribution to the hospitality discipline is the measurement of a luxury heritage hotel’s staying power through continuous place making amid glocal challenges. The significance of the findings should alert hospitality practitioners specializing in marketing to potential shifts arising from continuing new competitive narratives in place making.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42842172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tourist photography and heritage. The case of the abandoned city of Pripyat","authors":"Anna Duda","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2022.2161907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2022.2161907","url":null,"abstract":"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 analysis of the photographs taken by tourists, a picture of Pripyat will be outlined, which has started to function anew in the cultural space thanks to, among others, tourist representations. A tourist’s gaze on Pripyat was analysed through the lens of four categories: must-see places, tourist performativity behaviours, the acts and ruin photos. In addition, the article outlines the direct relationship between the tourist imagination, photography, and heritage. Through tourist photography, the heritage is ‘reframed’ and domesticated. Photography also takes an active part in the process of making heritage by fragmenting the world and often putting them into a completely new context and narration and an example is abandoned Pripyat.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46740476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is heritage tourism a panacea for rural decline? A comparative study of the Camino de Santiago and the Canal de Castilla in Spain","authors":"Luis Alfonso Hortelano Mínguez, Jan Mansvelt Beck","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2022.2159417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2022.2159417","url":null,"abstract":"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 authorities have actively stimulated tourism along these routes in order to retain the population. The findings reveal that public-sector investments and promotion have contributed to the growth of tourism along both routes but have not stopped demographic decline. The lack of revitalisation of the countryside is the result of the preceding rural exodus that has destroyed village communities.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41845866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Museums portraying indigenous heritage: the case of Sámi museums in Sweden","authors":"Richard Pettersson, D. Müller","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2022.2158740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2022.2158740","url":null,"abstract":"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, preserve, use, and develop heritage while at the same time appealing to various visitor groups is challenging, not least in a time of Arctification, luring new visitor groups with various touristic imaginaries to the North. This article reports on an assessment of two indigenous museums in Arctic Sweden. The research reveals that the responsible managers at the museums are aware of the dual role of museums, and need to navigate in a complex environment of local and global expectations based on preconceived notions. The museums are important nodes, and contribute to place-making in peripheral localities in the North.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48012801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Antoni Vidal-Matzanke, Hector Esteve-Ibáñez, P. Vidal-González
{"title":"Can cultural heritage be a successful strategy as a tourist experience? The case of tourist establishments in the mountains of Valencia, Spain","authors":"Antoni Vidal-Matzanke, Hector Esteve-Ibáñez, P. Vidal-González","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2022.2149337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2022.2149337","url":null,"abstract":"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 by the different stakeholders in the mountain region of Valencia, Spain. The study used a qualitative method involving interviews. A total of 15 semi-structured interviews lasting between 40 and 70 minutes were conducted in 12 mountain towns in the province of Castellón. The results indicate that there is a wide repertoire of very interesting heritage elements. However, the management of these elements is creating some problems that have had a negative impact on both the local population and visitors. This study has a series of implications for the various stakeholders. Firstly, these findings highlight the huge variety of heritage resources already in the area. Secondly, the study puts forward joint strategies for action in the field of heritage and tourism. Thirdly, we point out the risk of commoditization of tourism products for the natural and cultural environment of these rural areas.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47067694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impacts of armed conflicts on the heritage tourism of Dessie and its environs, Northern Ethiopia","authors":"M. J. Ahmed, Aminat Abdu Oumer","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2022.2145899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2022.2145899","url":null,"abstract":"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 Ethiopia, cultural tourism attractions were attacked, vandalized, pillaged and looted. The act of iconoclasm of historic photos and images was widely practiced. Therefore, this article appraises the impacts of this conflict on cultural institutions such as museums, historical halls and libraries and proposes resilience mechanisms in a post-conflict tourism landscape. The study is an exploratory study that employs qualitative research methods, including extensive systematic field observation, focus group discussions and in-depth interviews. The study findings indicate that the cultural institutions such as heritage houses, churches, mosques, museums, libraries and public spaces that express Ethiopian history and culture were damaged and pillaged during armed conflicts. Vandalism and iconoclasm were widely practiced in Dessie and Merho museums. Tourism infrastructure was damaged, and this, in turn, affected heritage tourism in the post-war periods.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46374435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}