scholarly journals Creating a Heritage Tourism Experience. The Power of the Senses

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (40) ◽  
pp. 109-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Angelina Jelinčić ◽  
Matea Senkić
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
The Senses

scholarly journals Towards Sustainable Heritage Tourism: A Space Syntax-Based Analysis Method to Improve Tourists’ Spatial Cognition in Chinese Historic Districts

Buildings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yabing Xu ◽  
John Rollo ◽  
David S. Jones ◽  
Yolanda Esteban ◽  
Hui Tong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Cognition ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Historic Districts ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Street Networks ◽  
Tourist Town ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
The Grand Canal ◽  
The Relationship

Historical and cultural blocks in Chinese historic districts are important components of sustainable heritage tourism. In towns along the Grand Canal, historical and cultural blocks are generally integrated with modern commerce, forming a complex space characterized by multi-elements, multi-cultures, and multi-functions. The understanding of tourists’ spatial cognition thus becomes extremely important to support heritage conservation and encourage sustainable heritage tourism. This study proposes a space syntax-based methodology to help inform heritage consultants and urban designers in understanding the tourists’ spatial cognition of canal town cultural blocks, and thereby assists designers and managers in identifying where cognitive experiences can be improved. The proposed method is applied to Nanyang, which is a canal town currently in decline in Shandong Province, and is contrasted with the ancient town of Wuzhen in Zhejiang Province, China, a highly successful tourist town. By using this proposed method, the relationship between street networks and tourists’ spatial cognition has been explored. The results of the analysis were evaluated in order to inform a range of design concepts that could enhance the sustainable heritage tourism experience of these two towns.

Heritage as a Source of Competitive Advantage

2020 ◽  
pp. 177-197
Author(s):  
Antonio Almeida ◽  
Luiz Pinto Machado ◽  
Tiago Pimenta Silva
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Relevant Market ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
Cultural Component ◽  
Competitive Products ◽  
The Relationship

Heritage tourism, as one of the most relevant market niches in the tourism sector, plays a key role in furthering the competitiveness of destinations in general. The relationship between cultural heritage and tourism development has received an increasing amount of attention by academia, owing to the persistent efforts of the DMOs to incorporate heritage resources in tourism plans. This chapter explores the potential impact of heritage tourism in the development of tourism products to increase overall competitiveness based on new combinations of heritage resources and traditional competitive advantages of the tourism sector. To this end, the chapter examines data pertaining to respondents hosted in one of the Quintas da Madeira. Findings suggest initiatives to increase the cultural component of the tourism experience to reinforce the capacity to transform heritage and culture in competitive products.

scholarly journals Jewish Heritage Tourism in Krakow. Authenticity and Commodification Issues

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-152
Author(s):  
Andrea Corsale
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Mass Tourism ◽  
Jewish Heritage ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Tourism Image ◽  
Made In

Tourism destinations located within rich and complex cultural contexts tend to offer a wide range of different experiences to visitors, spanning from standardized to more alternative ones. The quest for authenticity is central in the construction of tourism image and business, but easily raises questions related to appropriation, commercialization and trivialization. This study focuses on Jewish heritage tourism, a niche segment gradually turning into a mass tourism experience, through a qualitative research made in Krakow, Poland. Jewish-themed tourism in the area has gone through intense growth in spite of its dwindling Jewish population. As a consequence, the representation and consumption of the related heritage mostly occurs independently from the Jewish community itself and shows clear signs of commercial exploitation. The study results show that, in spite of the issues related to simplified narratives and staged practices, commodification, with its partial and functional reconstruction of the past, does not interfere with the religious or secular activities of the Jewish community, which is more pragmatically focused on present-day life.

Authenticity and Commodification of Cultural Events for the Maldivian Tourism Industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zakiyya Moosa
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
Long Time

Authentication and commodification of cultural events for the tourists has been practiced for a long time. These practices have had both positive and negative effects on the host community and its cultural heritage. Tourism deals with experiences sold to tourists which has had to be authentic. Therefore, this paper aims to look at the authenticity and commodification of cultural events presented for the benefit of tourists throughout the resorts in the Maldives and its implications on authenticity of cultural products offered to the tourists. Authenticity played a wide role in tourist experiences and repeat business for the destination. Commodification on the other hand is a byproduct of making the events authentic in order for it to be presented to the tourists since these events cannot be presented in its original form or length. Hence, the events are ‘staged' for the benefit of the tourists because cross cultural encounters drive authenticity of the tourism experience and create more business to the destination.

ANOTHER LOOK AT THE HERITAGE TOURISM EXPERIENCE

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 236-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching-Fu Chen ◽  
Pei-Chun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Tourism Experience

scholarly journals A Conceptualization of the Senses, Emotions, and Memories in Memorable Tourism Experiences

2020 ◽  
pp. 208-231
Author(s):  
Rui Mendonça Pedro ◽  
Julio Mendes ◽  
Nelson de Matos ◽  
Mário Passos Ascenção
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Meaningful Information ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
Meaning Creation ◽  
Five Senses ◽  
The Senses ◽  
And Storage

This chapter explores a conceptualization of the elements that create a memorable tourism experience – senses, emotions, and memories. A comprehensive and coherent theoretical model is established to explain the complexities involved in the tourism experience creation (tourism experience relational model) and in the memorable tourism experience (conceptual model). The data suggest that, first, the senses developed an important role in the experiential stimuli perception; second, the emotions are fundamental to these experiential stimuli understanding and meaning creation, and third, memory is essential in the codification and storage process and anticipation of meaningful information to future experiences. The conceptual model is based on the five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch), three positive emotions (joy, love, and positive surprise), and two memorable elements (recollection and vividness). Future research opportunities in the memorable tourism experience are explored, such as the relation between the sense, emotions, and memories.

scholarly journals Senses, Emotions and Memories in Tourism Experience: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 538-563
Author(s):  
Rui Manuel Mendonça Pedro ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Sensory Stimuli ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Positive Memories ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sequential Relationship

Today, memorable experiences are the leading economic value proposition that the tourism industry holds. This article aims to theoretically investigate the relationship between the senses, emotions and memories in the tourist experience and present a conceptual model about the senses, emotions and memories in the tourism experience establishment. Based on the literature review, we concluded that the construction of the tourism experience is the result of multi-sensory stimuli and perception, positive emotions, high emotional states, surprising events, extraordinary moments and pleasant and positive memories. It was also found that the senses, emotions and memories have a sequential relationship in the tourism experience establishment. We also concluded that the senses paly a important role in the experiential stimuli perception, the emotional states are vital to the stimuli interpretation and meaning achievement and memories are essential to coding, storage and anticipation the experiential information.

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