The Future of Cultural Tourism

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-84541-927-1
Verlag: Channel View Publications

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 409 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matteucci, Xavier

Moretti, Simone

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialprognosen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Björn and Monika Lüthje: 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 Šveb 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 Sánchez-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

Über Autor(innen)

Matteucci, Xavier
Xavier Matteucci is Honorary Professor at IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences and Lecturer at FHWien der WKW 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.

Moretti, Simone
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.

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.