Creating Heritage for Tourism

<p>What does ‘heritage’ mean in the twenty-first century? Traditional ideas of heritage involve places where objects landscapes people and ideas are venerated and reproduced over time as an inheritance for future generations. To speak of heritage is to speak of a relationship between the past the present and the future. However it is a past recreated for economic gain hence sectors such as culinary tourism ecotourism cultural tourism and film tourism have employed the heritage label to attract visitors.</p><p></p><p>This interdisciplinary book furthers understanding on how heritage is socially constructed interpreted and experienced within different geographic and cultural contexts in both Western and non-Western settings. Subjects discussed include Welsh linguistic heritage tango mushroom tourism Turkish coffee literary tourism and the techniques employed to construct tourist accommodation. By focusing upon heritage <i>creation </i>in the context of tourism the book moves beyond traditional debates about ‘authentic heritage’ to focus on how something <i>becomes </i>heritage for use in the present.</p><p></p><p>This timely volume will be of interest to students and researchers in tourism heritage studies geography museum studies and cultural studies.</p>