Conclusion
Heritage and Tourism: Places, Imageries and the Digital Age, Taylor & Francis Ltd, ss.216-220, 2025
- Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2025
- Doi Numarası: 10.5117/9789462985353_ch11
- Yayınevi: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.216-220
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This book has focused on the intricate but symbiotic relationship between heritage and tourism. As reviewed in the ten chapters included in this work, heritage feeds tourism with its stories and myths, ties to a past that is often glorious but may also be troubled and dark. This imagery is carried out and extended with the help of new technologies that play an intrinsic role in creating experiences for the consumption of the visitors. Thus, in cultural studies, geography, and cultural anthropology, heritage tourism is often framed and perceived as a quest for something authentic, as well as a means of escaping from modernity’s sense of alienation. It is associated with turning heritage into a spectacle, an exercise in staged authenticity – in other words, the replacement of a formerly vital tradition that is perceived as more authentic (MacCannell, 1973). Moreover, some believe that the processes of commodification pollute existing cultures (Meethan, 2011). This way of thinking leads Ashworth & van Vroger to assert that “heritage is important to tourism but tourism is not important to heritage” (Ashworth & van Vroger, 2005, p. 196).