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Emerging issues and directions of cultural heritage tourism in the Asia pacific region
No full text[Extract] The chapters in this book have made abundantly clear how important cultural heritage is in the Asia Pacific as a resource upon which much of the region's tourism is based. Parts of the region are among the world's fastest growing tourist destinations, thanks in large part to cultural heritage. This collection of essays spans a wide spectrum of countries and brings to the fore many empirical examples of living and built culture that draw visitors from around the globe in both the developing and developed areas of the Asia Pacific. The book highlights many issues that are of considerable interest to heritage and tourism scholars and which directly affect the management of heritage resources and heritage tourism. Several conceptual foundations underlie the chapters in this book: the vast array of heritage resources, the idea of impact and unacceptable change, heritage branding and demand, and power/politics. Each of these is examined below in greater depth and ideas are formulated regarding future trends and research needs
Dark tourism and spectral geographies: ghosts, memories, and the rupturing of absence and presence
No full textThis paper explores the intersection of dark tourism and spectral geographies, offering a critical examination of how spaces of death, disaster, trauma, and painful memories are shaped by hauntings and spectral presence. Drawing on hauntology and the work of Derrida, as well as on work in spectral geographies, it proposes spectrality not as a metaphor to analyse places connected with literal ghosts and supernatural presence, but as an analytical framework that reconfigures our understanding of temporality, spatiality, and presence within dark tourism sites. This article, as introduction to a collection of works on the nexus between dark tourism and spectral geographies, argues that spectrality offers a qualitative and transformative rethinking of dark tourism, revealing how disruptions in linear understandings of absence and presence, and past-present-future temporalities can produce sites that are emotionally and politically charged, and ethically complex. The collection interrogates how ghostly traces—whether of colonialism, disaster, or ecological loss—complicate linear historical narratives. It positions spectrality as a transformative and generative lens through which to engage with dark tourism’s critical potential in negotiating memory, justice, and intergenerational trauma
Themes in cultural and heritage tourism in the Asia Pacific region
No full textCultural and Heritage Tourism in Asia and the Pacific is the result of lengthy discussions between the editors and colleagues in many countries and is based partially on a double special issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of
Tourism Research. The call for papers for the special issue generated such a large response in submissions that two issues of the Journal (Vol. 9(3), Heritage in the Asia
Pacific and Vol. 9(4), Cultural Tourism in the Asia Pacific) were required to publish some of the papers submitted. There were still a number of excellent papers remaining, and given that there is an ongoing debate occurring on many of the issues raised, the editors
decided to publish the collection of papers from the special issue with a number of new chapters as a book. We believe that collectively the contributions provide a benchmark of current scholarly research into the main
issues of heritage and culture in the Asia Pacific Region. While we acknowledge that the collection of chapters is not a definitive statement of the breath of research currently
underway, it does provide a useful summary and highlights the ongoing nature of the issues that are the subject of scholarly debate.
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Travellers’ Tales:How Human Stories Portray ‘Elsewhere’
No full textOften common sense and philosophy assume that human imaginaries begin in human immobility, so the ground of our imagined world is a fixed location. Yet, the oldest of human stories concern the relationship between mobility and immobility, and attempt to negotiate between “Here” and “Elsewhere”. The author presents a typology of these “travellers’ tales” that address human movement, as a tool to analyse their ontological and political significance in accommodating Here and Elsewhere. The author’s account provides five (not mutually exclusive) types: travel as “challenge”, “discovery”, “reconfiguration”, “pilgrimage”, and “commentary”. These types appear in a loosely progressive historical order. For example, the oldest narratives present a protagonist able to conquer the dangers of Elsewhere. Conversely, many long-surviving narratives see Elsewhere as a terrain of discovery, often supported by an assumption of universality—that is, that the same power (typically one God) reigns over both Here and Elsewhere. Some narratives actively reconfigure the world in the service of such a power. Narratives of pilgrimage and commentary seek enlightenment or a standpoint to judge in the protagonist’s travels. The chapter closes with some observations about how such narratives can shape the national politics of bordering
Exhibiting power: dark tourism and crime in the police museum
No full textThis chapter discusses the representations of crime in state-run police museums, which are found around the world with varying foci. As state institutions, these museums function as an expression of official narratives of justice, control, and state-sanctioned morality, all of which come in the guise of edutainment. The approach taken here is a critical stance on ideologies, hegemony, and power. Methodologically, this chapter employs critical discourse analysis to appraise how information is presented within three diverse contexts: the Polismuseet in Stockholm, Sweden; the Police & Justice Museum in Sydney, Australia; and the Police Museum in Hong Kong, China. Through a comparative analysis, this chapter critically engages with the dichotomy inherent in crime as an attraction within the context of state power
Growing agri-heritage tourism in Africa: Challenges and opportunities
No full textAfrican nations have diverse and rich agricultural landscapes and systems, suggesting potential for a range of agri-heritage tourism offerings incorporating both tangible (e.g., built structures, landscape elements) and intangible elements (e.g., customs, beliefs, traditions, knowledge, language). This chapter considers the opportunities for growth of agri-heritage tourism in sub-Saharan Africa and provides two case studies of coffee tourism in Ethiopia and cocoa tourism in the Ivory Coast. Along with the above opportunities, we identify the potential for indigenous and traditional food crops to feature in agri-heritage tourism initiatives in Africa, capitalising on global trends in food production and consumption that have seen a revisiting of traditional sustainable approaches to producing food, as a means of coping with climate change and as an antidote to our widespread poisoned agri-industrial systems. Agri-heritage tourism may provide opportunities to diversify income streams, offering employment and income security for farms reliant upon unstable and unprofitable globally determined prices for their produce. However, barriers exist to the development of agri-heritage tourism, linked to a lack of inter-sectoral synergy between the agriculture and tourism sectors. Likewise, infrastructural, financing, product development, and marketing challenges exist, producing challenges for optimising livelihood benefits for the many small-holders who characterise the agriculture sector in Africa
Deciphering ‘Arab hospitality’: Identifying key characteristics and concerns
Get PDFThere exists a symbolic and socio-cultural relationship between hospitality and Arab populations, which also has its origins in the three Abrahamic (monotheistic) faiths—Christianity, Islam and Judaism. This ‘Abrahamic legacy’ continues to be embedded in ‘Arab Hospitality’ but is being challenged by socio-political and economic transformations in the contemporary world. Deciphering Arab hospitality from the theology of Islam considers the many relations between the Arab host and the Arab, non-Arab and ‘othered’ guest, and the way in which this form of hospitality is associated with and guided by Islamic scripture. However, the chapter recognises that there are instances of authentic Arab hospitality rooted in the pre-Islamic era and embedded in Bedouin societies and cultures. The work further contextualises hospitality within the private and informal spheres of everyday life, particularly in relation to duties and obligations as well as conceptions of generosity. A subsequent discussion also recognises the role of Arab hospitality within commercial spaces, illustrating staged and commodified versions of hospitality, especially for tourists (non-Arabs) to consume. Such distancing of hospitality from its Abrahamic Bedouin legacy is further supported by an observation that some social spaces are being penetrated with inhospitable relations with the ‘other’ (non-Arab guest), thereby challenging pre-modern perceptions of Arab (or Bedouin) hospitality. The discussion finally indicates a concern that the rise of Islamophobia and its relationship to Arab communities further complicates and challenges socio-cultural-based notions of Arab communities as being hospitable and accommodating
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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