A Research Agenda for Heritage Tourism

Elgar Research Agendas

Edited by Maria Gravari-Barbas, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France

This timely Research Agenda moves beyond classic approaches that consider the relationship between heritage and tourism either as problematic or as a factor for local development, and instead adopts an understanding of heritage and tourism as two reciprocally supported social phenomena that are co-produced.

‘The incomparable Maria Gravari-Barbas has brought together a multinational, multidisciplinary and multi-perspectival group of experts who push the boundaries of how we should approach the sometimes blurred intersections of heritage and tourism. A Research Agenda for Heritage Tourism will appeal to a diverse range of scholars and practitioners interested in issues such as sites’ tangibility and intangibility, impacts on diverse communities, race and politics, and new digital forms of heritage storytelling and consumption.’
– Michael A. Di Giovine, West Chester University, US

‘This is an incisive and exciting book under the leadership of Maria Gravari-Barbas, with her colleagues at IREST and other international and multidisciplinary authors. Examining cases from Asia, the Americas and Europe, they emphasize the ever-growing creation of new and old heritage at the behest of globalized post-colonial and post-communist tourism.’
– Nelson Graburn, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, US