Industrial Tourism Otgaar, Alexander H.J.; van den Berg, Leo; Berger, Christian ...
2010, 20160523, 2016-05-23, 2016-05-26, 2010-06-01
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Industrial tourism presents opportunities, both in terms of income and as a tool of management, for individual firms who open their doors - and consequently their local regions - to the public. But ...how can these opportunities be organised in a way that enables both the city and the enterprise to take advantage? This book analyzes the conditions for successful industrial tourism development using case studies of Wolfsburg, Cologne, Pays de la Loire, Turin, Shanghai and Rotterdam, and makes astute recommendations for cities and companies with ambitions in this field.
For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destination. As the first full-length ethnography of sex tourism in Brazil, this pioneering study treats sex ...tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic connections, from sex work to romantic transnational relationships. Erica Lorraine Williams explores sex tourism in the Brazilian state of Bahia from the perspectives of foreign tourists, tourism industry workers, sex workers who engage in liaisons with foreigners, and Afro-Brazilian men and women who contend with foreigners' stereotypical assumptions about their licentiousness. She shows how the Bahian state strategically exploits the touristic desire for exotic culture by appropriating an eroticized blackness and commodifying the Afro-Brazilian culture in order to sell Bahia to foreign travelers.
This reprint contains articles published as part of the Special Issue of "Sustainable Tourism: Ways to Counteract the Negative Effects of Overtourism at Tourist Attractions and Destinations" in the ...journal Sustainability in the "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage" section. It contains 13 articles presenting research on various aspects of overtourism: the attitudes of city dwellers towards overtourism, e.g., Krakow and Wrocław; the effects of tourism development in regions of natural value, e.g., the Tatra National Park; and areas adjacent to tourist routes. It looked at night-time tourism and the sharing economy, as well as how business models can be used to manage sustainable tourism. The phenomenon of overtourism in Tunisia, Brazil, and South Korea is described. The articles published in 2020 are very popular. They have been viewed by several thousand researchers and have been cited 300 times by other authors.
This book focuses on ethnic and minority communities in urban contexts and the ways in which their cultures are represented in tourism development. It offers a multi-disciplinary approach which draws ...on examples and case studies of ethnic and minority communities and cultural tourism development from all around the world, including slums in India, favelas in Brazil, Chinatowns in Australia, Jewish quarters in Central and Eastern Europe, ethnic villages in China, the African district of Brussels, the gay quarter in Cape Town and a desert town in Israel. It offers a positive perspective on ethnic and minority cultures and communities at a time when social and political support is lacking in many countries. This book will be a useful resource for those studying and researching cultural and urban tourism, urban planning and development, community studies and urban and cultural geography.
This book analyses the economic and financial profiles of
heritage assets as tourist attractions. Offering both theoretical insights, methods,
and global empirical examples, it considers how heritage ...assets can create economic
and social value for a region.
It offers an analysis of micro- and macroeconomic characteristics of heritage assets
and their financial management. The importance of innovation in light of
technological and market transformations is considered, as well as the sustainable
management of heritage assets environmentally and in terms of sustainable tourism.
The book delves into the financial assessment of heritage assets with a focus on
evaluation models, the technique of project financing and wealth management in the
art sector. These topics are illustrated with cases studies of heritage assets
managed as tourist attractions to outline successful management strategies. The book
draws on examples from a range of sites and locations across Italy, Spain, the
United Kingdom, New Zealand, and the United States to show how heritage assets can
be an economic stimulus for the development of local economies.
The book will be of interest to academics and students at both undergraduate and
postgraduate levels in the fields of tourism economics, cultural studies and
environmental studies.
