Heritage Tourism

Irish public histories as an historiographical problem

by john regan

Baia, Portus Julius and surroundings. Diving in the Underwater Cultural Heritage in the Bay of Naples (Italy)

by Michele Stefanile

in 'Oniz, H., Cicek, B. (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Underwater Research - Antalya-Kemer 2012, pp. 28-47'

Tourism to India as popular culture:

by Noga Collins-Kreiner

This paper considers a cultural, educational and religious experience of Western
tourists to Dharamsala in... more This paper considers a cultural, educational and religious experience of Western
tourists to Dharamsala in Northern India. It supplies information on the growing
phenomenon of Western people visiting the East for self-fulfilment, study and belief.
The article aims to deal with tourism in its popular cultural format, as this aspect of the
phenomenon is under-theorized. A structured questionnaire was administered to 127
visitors at seven different sites in Dharamsala. In addition, 20 in-depth interviews were
held with participants. Participant observation was chosen as another research method,
as one of the researchers had lived in Dharamsala from 2004 to 2005. The study
examines and analyses the characteristics of visitors to Dharamsala in terms of their
cultural, educational, religious, and tourist experience and positions the visitors on a
scale of motivations from education to tourism, and from pilgrimage to tourism.

The Ancient Tea Horse Road and the Politics of Cultural Heritage in Southwest China

by Gary Sigley

Published in the China Heritage Quarterly (www.chinaheritagequarterly.org), No. 20, 2012.

In 2005, a tea caravan (mabang 马邦) emerged out of the mists of time and made an epic journey from Yunnan 云南 to... more In 2005, a tea caravan (mabang 马邦) emerged out of the mists of time and made an epic journey from Yunnan 云南 to Beijing, from the 'periphery' to the 'centre'.[1] The caravan, consisting of forty muleteers and over one hundred mules, was transporting a precious four-tonne cargo of Pu'er tea cakes (普洱茶饼) from the tea producing regions of southeast Yunnan to the capital of the People's Republic. The tea was highly valued as 'tribute tea' (贡茶), calling to mind the time when precious commodities from across the empire were offered up to the imperial court, and also reflecting in the present the rapacious demand for luxury and exotic goods amongst China's nouveau riche (and, we might add, as gifts to curry favour with those in positions of power) ...

La posada en valor del patrimoni arqueològic. Noves aportacions pel segle XXI

by Ignacio Soriano

Co-authored with Lluís Vila.
Paper presented at 1st Congress of Leissure and Tourism OCITUR 2012 (in press).

Abstract:
The present communication sets out a series of problems that we consider in the promotion of... more Abstract:
The present communication sets out a series of problems that we consider in the promotion of archaeological heritage and positioning adopted by the authors. We review some issues such as the revolutionary change that The New Museology has in the field of museums; the false dichotomy between communicate, exhibit and display; the importance of the informal education above the rest; the current focus on extremely restricted potential visitors and the need to democratize the cultural heritage; the benefits of the universal accessibility; or the potential of information and communication technologies (ICT). As a final point, we present a specific case of archaeological heritage promotion in which the authors have been involved directly and in what ICTs play a central role: La Roca Prehistoric Park (Vallès Oriental, Barcelona)

Keywords: Museum, Archaeological Heritage, Visitors, Accessibility, ICT, La Roca Prehistoric Park.

Landscape Archaeology: Science, heritage and sustainability

by Guillermo S. Reher

Co-authored with Almudena Orejas, published in Territorial Heritage and Development (José M. Feria ed.). CRC Press, London: 35-53 (ISBN 978-0-415-62145-8)

Landscape studies are closely related, and strongly benefit, from Landscape Archaeology. As a tool to understanding... more Landscape studies are closely related, and strongly benefit, from Landscape Archaeology. As a tool to understanding the past, Archaeology enables the landscape to benefit from the rich heritage it includes. In this paper we outline what this concept truly means, including the diversity of origins and the multiple ramifications it has for society and territorial planning as a whole. Afterwards, an example of applied scientific activity in a particular type of landscape: Roman gold mining areas has resulted in one of the most richly studied and best preserved cultural landscapes in Europe. The pro-active attitude on behalf of research which has been applied in some examples from the Hispanic Northwest is a model which can be applied to many other depressed regions of the continent, where mining activity has left behind only poverty and abandonment.

Díaz-Andreu, M. 2004. Arqueología y Turismo: La Junta Superior de Excavaciones y Antigüedades (JSEA) y la Comisaría Regia de Turismo

by Marga Díaz-Andreu

Secciones incluidas en Díaz-Andreu, M. 2004. Mélida: génesis, pensamiento y obra de un maestro. In Mélida, J.R. Arqueología española. Clásicos de la historiografía española. Pamplona, Urgoiti: I-CXCIX.

Se sugiere la conexión entre la arqueología profesional y el turismo en España en el primer tercio del siglo XX,... more Se sugiere la conexión entre la arqueología profesional y el turismo en España en el primer tercio del siglo XX, demostrada por
1/ el análisis de las las subvenciones más abultadas dadas por la Junta Superior de Excavaciones y Antigüedades (JSEA), que se realizaron en aquellos yacimientos monumentales que todavía hoy son referentes turísticos (Mérida, Itálica, Medina Azahara, a los que habría que añadir La Alhambra).
2/ el análisis comparativo entre los individuos que dirigían la Junta Superior de Excavaciones y Antigüedades (JSEA) y la Comisaría Regia de Turismo, teniendo ambos como nexo esencial el marqués de la Vega Inclán y otros como José Ramón Mélida y Alinari

Travels to an Ancestral Past: On Diasporic Tourism, Embodied Memory, and Identity (2005)

by Naomi Leite

Antropológicas 9:273-302

This paper explores “roots tourism” as a diasporic identity practice. Drawing on accounts of voyages made by members... more This paper explores “roots tourism” as a diasporic identity practice. Drawing on accounts of voyages made by members of several different diasporic populations, I demonstrate that attention to individual tourist experience reveals a subjective focus on the sensing body as a key component of touristic “return” to ancestral homelands. Through sensory engagement with their physical surroundings, travelers undertake commemorative practices that somatically and imaginatively unite them with their forebears, thus bridging the diasporic rupture of past and present, ancestors and selves, homeland and exile.

(1994) Mégalithisme expérimental au C.A.I.R.N

by Bertrand Poissonnier

Published in :' Les sites de reconstitutions archéologiques. Actes du colloque d’Aubechies, 2-5 septembre 1993'.  Archéosite d’Aubechies, 1994:53-57.

Materializing Absence: Tourists, Surrogates, and the Making of “Jewish Portugal” (2007)

by Naomi Leite

In Things That Move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel, ed. Mike Robinson. Leeds: Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change.

Tourism unfolds in and through encounters with the material world. But what is the role of the material when the... more Tourism unfolds in and through encounters with the material world. But what is the role of the material when the tourist attraction is an absence? How does one tour a world that no longer physically exists? I explore this question in relation to Portugal, a country with a burgeoning Jewish heritage tourism market but little material evidence of past Jewish settlement. The historical narrative that draws thousands of tourists each year highlights the country’s once-thriving medieval Jewish population, wiped out by mass forced conversions and three centuries of the Catholic Inquisition (1536-1821). The medieval community’s synagogues, cemeteries, and ritual objects were also destroyed, leaving few easily identifiable “Jewish” remains for tourists to visit today. And yet package tours of “Jewish Portugal” abound. This paper examines the practices through which tourists and tourism providers imaginatively engage the physical world of the present as a means to experience an invisible past, collaboratively creating their destination in the moment of the tourist encounter. Of particular interest are the ways in which buildings, neighborhoods, and museum objects stand in as surrogates for the medieval material heritage that was lost. The Museu Luso-Hebraico, until recently Portugal’s sole Jewish museum, provides a key example. Housed in the country’s only remaining pre-Inquisition synagogue, its ad hoc collection is made up largely of everyday Jewish items from around the world, sent by tourists who were moved by the lack of Portuguese objects to represent the long-absent medieval Jews.

Anthropological Interventions in Tourism Studies (2009)

by Naomi Leite

in The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies, ed. Mike Robinson and Tazim Jamal. London: Sage, pp. 35-64, 2009 (first author, with Nelson Graburn).

A critical survey of the anthropology of tourism, past and present, and a discussion of emerging areas of future... more A critical survey of the anthropology of tourism, past and present, and a discussion of emerging areas of future research. Written for the interdisciplinary Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies.

Visual identity and Indigenous tourism: power, authenticity, hybridity and the Osoyoos Indian Band's Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre

by Katie Bresner

Masters Thesis

The tourism industry is particularly reliant on the use of imagery to create a brand for a destination or attraction... more The tourism industry is particularly reliant on the use of imagery to create a brand for a destination or attraction in order to effectively market its product. In the case of Indigenous tourism, a paradox often exists between maintaining a level of recognition and familiarity that mirror the expectations of the public imagination, and conveying a representation that is locally meaningful and emblematic. Investigation into the visual representation and communication of identity through tourism is a means to illustrate three overlapping issues that are prevalent throughout the literature on Indigenous tourism. These are: control, authenticity, and hybridity. This research project addresses these issues through an extensive review of anthropological and tourism-related literature and its application to the specific case study of one Indigenous tourism business, the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre (NDCC), owned and operated by the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) in Osoyoos, British Columbia (BC), Canada. Semiotic and visual analyses are used to elucidate the messages about OIB identity communicated through the Centre’s visuals, in order to bring the example of the OIB and NDCC into conversation with the larger issues found within Indigenous tourism.

Managing Tourist Space in Pueblo Villages of the American Southwest

by Alan A. Lew

Prepublication version. Published in In Singh, Tej Vir, ed., Tourism Development in Critical Environments, pp. 120-36. Elmsford, NY: Cognizant Communications Corporation.

Keywords: Tourism, Pueblo Indians, Acculturation, Village Design, Tourist Behavior, Environmental Management
more Keywords: Tourism, Pueblo Indians, Acculturation, Village Design, Tourist Behavior, Environmental Management

First paragraph:

Acculturation is defined as the process of culture change that occurs when a society with superior technological sophistication comes into contact with one of inferior technological sophistication.  The latter is most likely to become an acculturated society, experiencing dramatic shifts in social structure and world view.  The North American experience has largely been one in which American Indians have experienced pressure to change under the expanding influence of European settlers (Bodine 1972).  Societies can react in a variety of ways under pressure of this kind (Lew 1989).  In general, these reactions can be classified into two types: innovation diffusion, and cultural adaptation.

The Said and the Unsaid: Performative Guiding In a Jerusalem Neighborhood

by Chaim Noy

Brin, E., and Noy, C. (2010). Tourist Studies, 10(1): 19-33.

This paper describes a guided walking tour of a formerly Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem and an important... more This paper describes a guided walking tour of a formerly Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem and an important battlefield in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The paper assumes a critical performance approach to guided tours in examining how through performative guiding, identities, histories and places are (re)constituted. We conceive of performative guiding as a situated event which both takes place in and simultaneously signifies and reconstructs the environment wherein it transpires. The tour we analyze was given by a Jewish-Israeli guide to a Jewish-Israeli audience, and was attended by the first author. The guide’s apparent inclination towards the Israeli and Zionist narrative regarding the story of the neighborhood is highlighted through an analysis of the commentary given. Through an examination of things said and unsaid, we highlight the dual role of performative guiding: relaying historical information and reaffirming partisan narratives.

Mediation Materialized: The Semiotics of a Visitor Book at an Israel Commemoration Site

by Chaim Noy

Noy, C. (2008). Critical Studies in Media Communication, 25(2): 175-195.

This article deals with visitor books as a dynamic medium of communication, and explores how material aspects of such... more This article deals with visitor books as a dynamic medium of communication, and explores how material aspects of such a book*including its physical affordances and the spatial and institutional environment in which it is located*affect its capacity to create and mediate social meaning. In line with recent studies that set out to rematerialize communication and its devices, and, more specifically, to examine writing as an embodied communicative practice, it is argued that material considerations, while frequently overlooked, constitute preconditions of communication, and are organic to semiotic processes and formative in shaping them. The data analyzed are entries in, and observations on, a visitor book located in a war commemoration museum in West Jerusalem, Israel. It is demonstrated that, within the context of a national commemoration site, the visitor book proves to be a fascinating medium of inscriptive communication which is manipulated to serve as a cultural site of nationalist participation, commitment, and performance. The article draws on sensibilities from material and technological literature in order to shed light on the ways in which individuals interact with written environments and technologies.

Uninherited heritage: tradition and heritage production in Shetland, Åland and Svalbard

by Adam Grydehoj

Published in "International Journal of Heritage Studies"

Negotiating heritage and tradition: identity and cultural tourism in Ærø, Denmark

by Adam Grydehoj

Archaeotourism and the Crux of Development

by Rachel Giraudo

Archaeotourism and the Crux of Development. Anthropology News 51(8):7–8. (2010)

Co-authored with Benjamin W. Porter.

Industrial Heritage - Eliciting Nostalgic Wealth

by Seth Kirby

Recovering and remembering a slave route in central Tanzania

by Stephanie Wynne-Jones

2011. In Slavery in Africa: Archaeology and Memory. P.J. Lane and K.C. MacDonald eds.: 317-342. London: Oxford University Press. 168.