scholarly journals The Urban Museum as a Sustianble Tourism Attraction: London Museum Lates Visitor Motivation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayeon Choi ◽  
Graham Berridge ◽  
Chulwon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Contextual Model ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Special Events ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
Cultural Construct ◽  
Tourism Attractions ◽  
Contextual Model Of Learning

The urban museum has become a multi-functional institution that transcends the functional display of artifacts. The museum has become, in cities, a hybrid institution that keeps its doors open late to support a wide variety of special events. This study explored London’s ‘Museum Lates’ programs and event characteristics, using museums’ theoretical views as cultural tourism attractions. Furthermore, the study applied the contextual model of learning to understand visitor attendance motivations. Authors employed an interpretive approach using interviews with two types of participants, event visitors, and event coordinators. Findings suggested that attendees possess a complex of personal, physical, and socio-cultural motivations for participating in museum lates events. The characteristics of late events – extraordinary quality and evening time atmosphere – produce different effects than current museum exhibitions held during regular operating hours. Museum lates events can contribute to achieving cultural sustainability, adding cultural construct to the traditional three-pillars of sustainability. Keywords: Museums; special events; late opening; visitors' motivations; sustainability, touristic attractions

scholarly journals The Urban Museum as a Creative Tourism Attraction: London Museum Lates Visitor Motivation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9382
Author(s):  
Ayeon Choi ◽  
Graham Berridge ◽  
Chulwon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Model ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Special Events ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
Cultural Construct ◽  
Tourism Attractions ◽  
Contextual Model Of Learning

The urban museum has become a multi-functional institution that transcends the functional display of artifacts. The museum has become, in cities, a hybrid institution that keeps its doors open late to support a wide variety of special events. This study explored London’s “Museum Lates” programs and event characteristics, theoretical views of museums as cultural and creative tourism attractions. Furthermore, the study applied the contextual model of learning to understand visitor attendance motivations. The authors employed an interpretive approach using interviews with two types of participants: event visitors and event coordinators. The findings suggest that attendees possess personal, physical, and socio-cultural motivations for participating in “Museum Lates” events. The characteristics of late events—extraordinary quality and evening-time atmosphere—produce different effects from those of current museum exhibitions held during regular operating hours. “Museum Lates” events can contribute to achieving cultural sustainability, adding a cultural construct to the traditional three pillars of sustainability.

Cultural Tourism and Economic Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-44
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Tourism Attractions ◽  
Key Aspects

There are many links between cultural tourism and economic development. Governments from entire nations down to cities and counties have made tourism a focal point in their economic development efforts. This chapter discusses 18 types of cultural tourism attractions ranging from architecture to gastronomy to sex. Each of the types of cultural tourism are assessed in terms of the level of interaction between a tourist and an attraction. Travel and tourism's contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) has outpaced overall GDP in 62% of the 185 countries studied by the World Travel and Tourism Council in 2017. Tourism's contribution to GDP exceeds 10% for several countries with Iceland topping the list at 20.1%. Sustainability is a key to the success of any long-term development strategy, and this is certainly the case with cultural tourism. The tradeoff communities face is maximizing short term returns versus managing development (tourism) to maintain the quality of the resource for the long run. Over-tourism results when an attraction or a community experiences numbers of tourists beyond the carrying capacity of the attraction. While the marketplace is better suited for managing much of tourism and its impacts, government is uniquely suited to manage some key aspects of tourism. Government is better able than business to manage for the long term. Additionally, governments can weigh costs and benefits to different groups (e.g., residents versus tourists). Two case studies are presented to highlight these issues.

scholarly journals Challenges and Prospects of Ethiopian Tourism Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-48
Author(s):  
Jember Belete Engda
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Topographic Features ◽  
Economic Contribution ◽  
Tourism Attractions

Tourism is a circulation of people who travel to or stay in places outside their home country. It has being believed as a major ingredient in the economic development strategy. Ethiopia possesses numerous natural, religious,historical, non-natural and cultural tourism attractions;economic contribution and its potential are incomparable. However, various external and internal factors have been affecting the sustainable development of the tourism industry in Ethiopia. Shortage of tourist facilities, lack of skillful human resources, weak promotion, lack of integration and political will are the major negatively contributing forces. Although Ethiopia possesses massive tourism development potentials with its unique biodiversity and spectacular topographic features, its economic contribution to the country is unmatched. A solution could be the implementation of a tourism tax;these taxes can be used to fund the continuous development and improvement of its tourism markets. Thus, relieving the country of the stigma relying on foreign money to help its own industry and giving full of tourist facilities, skillful human resources,promotion, socio-cultural and political will for the tourists.

scholarly journals Tourism and Cultural Sustainability: Views and Prospects from Cyclades, Greece

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
Theano S. Terkenli ◽  
Vasiliki Georgoula
Keyword(s):  
Local Development ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Local Sustainability ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Eu Project

The objective of this paper is to explore cultural tourism perceptions, practices, concerns and prospects among local residents, tourists and business representatives in the Cycladic Islands, specifically three sites (Andros, Syros and Santorini). The concept and framework of cultural sustainability are employed to analyze the variable interrelationships between culture and tourism in the development of cultural tourism and in overall local sustainability, from a bottom-up/destination perspective. The methodological approach was an on-site exploratory questionnaire survey, effectuated in the context of the SPOT Horizon 2020 EU project, on cultural tourism in the Cyclades. Our findings show that the role of culture as an actual tourism attraction and the potential for further growth in cultural tourism, and consequently local development, are broadly recognized. However, the role of tourism in cultural development, management and appropriation is viewed with a certain degree of trepidation and ambivalence. Culture and tourism emerge from the results of this research study as positively interlinked in the minds of the locals, the visitors and the entrepreneurs involved in cultural tourism and tourism more generally. Despite the fact that it is mostly privately driven, the culture–tourism relationship is viewed as holding great potential for all sides involved and for local cultural and overall sustainability.

scholarly journals Food and Drink As Tourism Product

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-108
Author(s):  
Susan Horner ◽  
N.G Vinod
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Secondary Importance ◽  
Adventure Tourism ◽  
Special Events ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Culturally Based ◽  
Beach Tourism ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Food And Drink

India is trying to grow the levels of inbound tourism and it has focussed on a number of tourism products to target the growing number of tourists, including cultural tourism, beach tourism, adventure tourism, ecotourism, and spa and well-being tourism.All of these tourism products emphasize the opportunity that exists for the future development of culturally based tourism as part of the ongoing 'Incredible India' campaign.The growth of cultural tourism relies on a subtle combination of a number of tourism resources to target the post-modern consumer who desires wider holiday experiences (Swarbrooke and Horner,1999).Food and drink can contribute to the development of cultural tourism as it provides an important resource when it is used in combination with another factor such as traditional crafts, heritage, attractions, festivals and special events, and religious sites(Swarbrooke,1999).The opportunities to exploit food and drink as a tourism product are numerous, although it has traditionally been viewed as being of secondary importance compared to another tourism resources

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