Sustainable Tourism, Culture and Heritage Promotion (eBook)

Development, Management and Connectivity

Jorge Chica-Olmo, Miroslav VUJIČIĆ, Rui Alexandre Castanho, Uglješa Stankov, Eliana Martinelli (Herausgeber)

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2024
XVII, 290 Seiten
Springer Nature Switzerland (Verlag)
978-3-031-49536-6 (ISBN)

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This proceedings book explores future prospects of cultural, heritage, and religious tourism and how it can impact the socioeconomic complexity of a community and future developments. It includes chapters on contemporary digital age pilgrimage, digital interpretation as a management strategy, tourism in the era of digital communication, and the role of social media in conserving intangible cultural heritage.

 

This book focuses on policies and mechanisms for heritage preservation. It includes cultural heritage tourism management, how the digitalization of data has impacted and further developed tourism, World Heritage classification in urban tourism destinations, cultural tourism products, and experiences. Moreover, it discusses the sustainable environment and geography in tourism. It covers topics such as ecotourism and rural sustainable development, heritage in socioeconomic sustainable development, and tourists' perceptions of tourism.

 

Another part of the book explores the social and economic impacts of tourism. It includes chapters on cycling tourism along the Elbe, residents' perceptions of the socioeconomic benefits of restaurants, architecture of historical mosques, tourism as a driver of soft power, tourists' perceptions of service quality, tourism during the Covid-19 pandemic, gastronomic narratives in tourism, and residents' perceptions of festivals. Also, it pinpoints the focus on user interaction-based development. It includes chapters on the role of community-led initiatives in heritage revitalization and addressing connectivity issues between historical and natural touristic heritage sites.

 

These research papers provide valuable insights into the multidimensional nature of cultural sustainable tourism, covering a wide range of topics and offering diverse perspectives on its development, management, and impact.

Jorge Chica-Olmo

Jorge Chica-Olmo is Full Professor at the University of Granada, Spain, in the Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business. Its research is about spatiotemporal analysis of socioeconomic phenomena. He interested in the development and application of geostatistics, spatial econometrics, and geographic information systems in different areas as real estate, tourism, transport, violence, energy, wellbeing, public administration, etc. He published numerous articles in journals such as Urban Studies, Journal of Real Estate of Finance and Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, The Geographical Journal, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Cities, Tourism Management, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Energy Economics, Social Indicators Research, etc.

 

Prof. Dr. Miroslav Vujicic is Associate Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences. He is Main Evaluator for impact assessment of European Capital of Culture Novi Sad 2022 and Chief Researcher for sustainability and impact assessment for Expo 2020 Dubai. Main field of interest is decision making processes, sustainability and impact assessment, project management, green events, accessible and meaningful communication, sustainable cultural tourism and has proficiency skills in data gathering, analysis and interpretation of mathematical and statistical methods. He has published 53 research papers at Scopus indexed journals and has more than 753 citations in Scopus database. He is Experienced Project Manager as he participated on more than 30 international projects. He also participated as External Evaluator for European projects.

 

Rui Alexandre Castanho

Rui Alexandre Castanho holds an International Ph.D. in Sustainable Planning in Borderlands and is the Vice-Coordinator of the Research Center on Innovation in Tourism, CITUR-Madeira (Portugal). Nowadays, he is a Professor at WSB University (Poland), a Professor at UNIR (Spain), and a visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Besides, he conducted post-doc research on the GREAT Project at the University of Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal. Furthermore, he collaborates with the VALORIZA - Research Center for the Enhancement of Endogenous Resources, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), Portugal; CITUR - Madeira - Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, Madeira, Portugal; ECIDES - UNIR, Spain and AQUAGEO Research Group - University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Moreover, he graduated in Green Spaces Engineering and Agricultural Engineering and holds a Master's Degree in Planning, Audit, and Control in Urban Green Spaces. Furthermore, he was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa for improving Borderlands communities' living standards and the connections enabled between Latin American and Central European Institutions by the UPCI - Lima, Peru.

 

Uglješa Stankov

Dr. Uglješa Stankov is Full Professor at the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. His main research areas are the strategic role of information technology in designing services and co-creating experiences.

 

Eliana Martinelli

Eliana Martinelli is an architect and Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia. Since 2012, she has carried out academic and professional research in Italy, Germany, Turkey, and Morocco. In 2017, she completed a PhD in Architectural Composition with honors at the IUAV University of Venice, with the first dissertation in Italy on the work of the Turkish architect Turgut Cansever, later published in the book Recomposing Unity. Turgut Cansever in Istanbul (2022). She has held teaching positions at the Université Euro-Méditerranéenne de Fès (Morocco), SRH Hochschule Heidelberg (Germany), the University of Pisa, the University of Florence, and the Federico II University of Naples. She has been a research fellow in the field of architectural and urban regeneration, specializing in memory and the involvement of communities in the enhancement of tangible and intangible heritage. She has published numerous essays and articles, and she is the co-founder of DAr: international biannual journal of architecture in the Islamic world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 290 p. 121 illus., 112 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Cultural Development • Cultural Identity • Development of tourism • Geocultural and Diversity Effect • Heritage Perseverance • Socioeconomic Tourism Impact • sustainable economy • sustainable ecotourism • Sustainable tourism
• ISBN-10: 3-031-49536-5 / 3031495365
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-49536-6 / 9783031495366