Culture and Cultures in Tourism: Exploring New Trends
About this ebook
This comprehensive volume explores new trends in cultural tourism, demonstrating how and why culture has become a central factor in tourism. The authors analyse a wide range of relevant issues, including: how heritage-based and cultural tourism could contribute to the sustainability of destinations; the increase of religious travels to and within Arab countries; and how cultural tourism fosters understanding among people and cultures, and could even potentially help to consolidate peace at a regional level. The book also analyses interactions between hosts (the local residents) and guests (the cultural visitors), revisiting the pioneer hippy travelling experiences in Turkey of the 1960s and how they shaped youth culture.
This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of cultural tourism. The chapters were originally published in the journal Anatolia.
About the author
Andres Artal-Tur is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Cartagena, Spain. He is a member of the Research Excellence Group EMODs; Research Associate at the Institute of International Economics (IEI-UV) at the University of Valencia, Spain; and a founding member of the FEMISE Network. His main research interest is in the analysis of tourist behaviour, destination planning, and culture and sustainability.
Metin Kozak is Full Professor at the Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey. He is Editor-in-Chief of Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research. His main research interests focus on consumer behaviour, benchmarking, cross-cultural research, destination management and marketing, and European tourist markets.
