Exploring empowerment within the Gullah Geechee cultural heritage corridor: implications for heritage tourism development in the Lowcountry

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Bynum Boley ◽  
Cassandra Johnson Gaither
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development

scholarly journals Resident-Tourist Value Co-Creation in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Tourism Context: The Role of Residents’ Perception of Tourism Development and Emotional Solidarity

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1369
Author(s):  
Tianning Lan ◽  
Zhiyue Zheng ◽  
Di Tian ◽  
Rui Zhang ◽  
Rob Law ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Emotional Solidarity ◽  
Cultural Heritage Tourism

The value co-creation behavior of residents can contribute to the sustainable development of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) tourism. This paper aims to provide a theoretical framework that uses “cognition–affection–behavior” theory to explain how the two variables of tourism development perception and emotional solidarity affect the value co-creation participation behavior of the local residents in the context of intangible cultural heritage tourism while considering the mediating role of emotional solidarity. This study empirically investigates Meizhou Island in Fujian Province, China as an example by using a structural equation model (SEM). Results show that the perception of local residents toward the benefits of tourism development has a significant positive impact on their emotional solidarity and value co-creation participation behavior, whereas their perception toward the costs of tourism development has a significant negative impact. In addition, the emotional solidarity of these residents has a significant positive impact on their value co-creation participation and plays a mediating role in the relationship between the tourism development perceptions of local residents and their value co-creation participation behavior. This study has important theoretical and practical significance for the management of ICH tourist destinations.

The Potential of Cultural Heritage Tourism to Promote Sustainable Urban Development: The Case of Tainan City

2013 ◽  
Vol 316-317 ◽  
pp. 446-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsing Ping Kuo ◽  
Kang Li Wu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Tainan City ◽  
Cultural Heritage Tourism

As cultural heritage tourism is widely regarded as a key element of promoting sustainable urban development and making a city competitive, allocating suitable budget for developing cultural heritage tourism thus becomes an important issue. Tainan City is an ancient cultural city with many cultural heritages, up to 112 attractions, in Taiwan. As the budget of local governments to promote tourism activities is limited, it is exceptionally important to assess the potential of cultural heritage tourism. Modified the cultural tourism assessment indicators proposed by Mckercher and Ho, this study assessed the potential of eight cultural heritage attractions in Tainan City by surveying visitors who have visited these attractions to verify the positioning of tourism development and to prioritize the resources for enhancing these attractions. The outcomes can provide a reference for decision-makers to promote sustainable tourism and allocate resources.

scholarly journals Cultural heritage as a means of heritage tourism development

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-95
Author(s):  
Alexandra Bitušíková
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

A large number of studies within the social sciences have been devoted to the relationship between cultural heritage and cultural/ heritage tourism development in recent years and even decades. This area of study has been an object of interest for numerous disciplines, from economics, geography, sociology and history, to ethnology, sociocultural anthropology, museology and cultural studies. The study aims to present selected theories on cultural heritage and heritage tourism based on recent theoretical concepts, and to reflect their implementation within a particular national and regional context based on a case study of the Banská Bystrica Self-Governing Region, Slovakia.

Research on Cultural Heritage Tourism Development Based on Tourist Perception: Taking Beijing Olympic Park of China as an Example

2013 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiong Hua Li ◽  
Rosalind Sia ◽  
Ying Bo Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Beijing Olympics ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Cultural Heritage Tourism

Cultural heritage tourism is one of the most essential components in tourist industry while tourist perception is of considerable referential importance for the development of cultural heritage destination. As one of the touristic hot spots after Beijing Olympics games as well as a typical sports cultural heritage tourist attraction, Beijing Olympic Park has become a new tourism landmark and tourist destination in Beijing. Based on a tourism market questionnaire survey, this paper analyses the present situation and existing problems of the tourism development in Beijing Olympic Park from the tourists perspective. This paper also tests five research hypotheses and makes some suggestions on the tourism market, tourism branding, tourism activities, tourism support system etc. specifically for Beijing Olympic Park.

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