Creative Tourism: Activating Cultural Resources and Engaging Creative Travellers - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1789243548 ISBN 13 : 9781789243543

Editeur : CABI Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

This book provides a synthesis of current research and international best practice in the emerging field of creative tourism. Including perspectives and reflections from practitioners and a range of case study examples, it covers types of creative tourist, trends, designing and implementing creative tourism products, embedding activities in a community and place, and addressing sustainability challenges. Applying lessons learned from the CREATOUR project, the editors present key information in an actionable manner best suited to people working on the ground. The book: Addresses important issues such as local economic benefit, social and collaborative economy, community engagement, social inclusion, youth empowerment, cross\-cultural exchange, and responsible travel. Provides a core, introductory text plus supplementary cases showing creative tourism in practice for each chapter. Includes colour photos, sketches, boxes, and call\-out quotations throughout to help guide and engage readers. A vital resource for tourism agencies, practitioners, planners and policy makers interested in developing creative tourism programmes and activities, this book will also be of interest to cultural and creative tourism researchers, students, and teachers of tourism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nancy Duxbury, PhD, is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, and Co-coordinator of its Cities, Cultures and Architecture Research Group. She is also an Adjunct Professor of the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University and of the School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Waterloo, Canada. She is a member of the European Expert Network on Culture, and was Chair of the Policies group of the European research network &#34;Investigating Cultural Sustainability&#34; (2011-2015).<br /><br />Sara Albino, PhD is a Research Fellow of the Interdisciplinary Centre of History, Culture and Societies of the University of Évora and also a Member of the UNESCO Chair in &#34;Intangible Heritage and Traditional Know-How: Linking Heritage&#34; (University of Évora - Portugal). She is also an associate researcher at the Research Centre in Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Her research has addressed the issue of immaterial heritage in tourism planning and territorial branding using mixed methods in qualitative research.<br /><br />Cláudia Pato Carvalho is a permanent researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra under the ARTERIA project (operation no. CENTRO-07-2114-FEDER-000022, Portugal 2020). Arteria is an action-research project, coordinated by O Teatrão (a professional theatre company from Coimbra) that aims at the development of a cultural programming network in the Centro Region (Portugal) and the creation of artistic intervention projects in eight cities of this Region. She completed her PhD in Sociology, with a specialization in Sociology of Culture, Knowledge and Communication, at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, in collaboration with the Center for Reflective Community Practice (DUSP, MIT).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CABI Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789243548
• ISBN 13: 9781789243543
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Éditeur: Duxbury Nancy, Albino Sara, Pato De Carvalho Cláudia
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible