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Call for Papers
Urban Heritage and
Tourism: Challenges and Opportunities
The gardens in Suzhou, the temples of Kyoto, the mystical streets
of Varanasi and the cobbled walkways of Macao are examples of historic
urban areas that have long captivated and charmed travellers. Although
the benefits, impacts, implications and consequences of tourism
on cultural heritage have been much discussed, there are both persistent
and emerging gaps in our knowledge of particular issues involved
in achieving meaningful and sustainable approaches to heritage tourism
in historic urban areas. Hosted in Macao, a historic city currently
experiencing intense urban development, this conference will explore
these challenges as well as opportunities for tourism in historic
urban areas. The conference will examine the relationship between
the conservation and management of urban heritage and the development
of cultural tourism. To better understand this relationship, we
welcome contributions that:
- Analyse how conservation and tourism management relate to community
development,
- Suggest how to revise the existing frameworks, theories and
methodologies related to conserving and managing urban heritage,
and
- Offer methods to develop new perspectives and approaches related
to cultural tourism.
We encourage submission of papers that analyze best practice examples
and case studies associated with one of the conference themes from
historic urban areas - including, but not limited to, UNESCO World
Heritage Cities in Asia and beyond.
The conference will be structured around the following four
sub-themes within the contexts of historic urban areas:
- Managing change in historic urban areas in the face of tourism
development
- Adaptive re-use of urban heritage resources as hospitality venues
- Heritage interpretation: By whom? For whom?
- Heritage tourism’s contributions to host communities
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