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ATLAS Cultural Tourism Group Publications
2024
This document provides a summary of publications produced by the ATLAS Cultural Tourism Research Group from 1991 to date. For more details about the group and the research programmes it has developed, please go to: https://www.richardstourism.com/atlas-cultural-tourism-project
ATLAS CULTURAL TOURISM BIBLIOGRAPHY 2019
This is the latest update to the ATLAS Cultural Tourism Bibliography, which is a work in progress rather than a comprehensive listing of cultural tourism research sources. All suggestions for additional references gratefully received. In line with the multilingual nature of ATLAS, we are happy to receive suggested references in languages other than English, preferably with an English language translation of the title. The latest revision includes references from the UNWTO report Tourism and Culture Synergies (2018).
ATLAS CULTURAL TOURISM BIBLIOGRAPHY
This bibliography is a work in progress rather than a comprehensive listing of cultural tourism research sources. All suggestions for additional references gratefully received. In line with the multilingual nature of ATLAS, we are happy to receive suggested references in languages other than English, preferably with an English language translation of the title. The latest revision includes references from the UNWTO report Tourism and Culture Synergies (2018).
ATLAS Cultural Tourism Survey Report 2007
An overview of the data collected for the ATLAS Cultural Tourism Project worldwide in 2007. Includes data from Mexico, Greece, Latvia, Italy, Austria, Romania, Portugal and Vietnam.
ATLAS 25 Years: Overview of the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (ATLAS)
ATLAS emerged 25 years ago as one of the first European bodies dedicated to furthering tourism and leisure research and education. The original focus was European, because the newly-created ERASMUS programme was at that time beginning to provide funds for international educational collaboration and exchange. EU funding helped the new network to develop by producing publications and reports, many of which were based on international conferences and seminars. In the early 1990s many of the institutions dealing with tourism and leisure had a background in leisure studies, and so this was one of the early focus areas of the network. During the 1990s, however, tourism overtook the longer-established leisure field, basically because of its perceived economic power. This shift from leisure to tourism has been clearly marked in the publications output of ATLAS, which in the early days devoted much attention to leisure and tourism education. The leisure and tourism tandem is therefore reflected in the title of Bill Burnett's contribution to the ATLAS Conference in 1998, even though Bill himself was based firmly in the field on tourism development. One of the signs of the emerging dominance of tourism in the work of ATLAS was the development of a 'Body of Knowledge' for tourism education in the late 1980s. At that time there was still a lot of discussion about just what constituted tourism education, and there were many different models emerging in different countries. Although this diversity was seen as a good thing, it was also felt that some 'core' knowledge was needed for this emerging field, particularly with a view to facilitating student exchange. This work, which eventually culminated in the ATLAS publication (Richards and Onderwater, 1998) is summarised in David Airey's contribution in Chapter 2. David was able to contribute a considerable depth of knowledge to this task thanks to his work on similar issues in the UK tourism education field. One of the other early drivers of tourism knowledge creation in the ATLAS network was another EU project on cultural tourism, which was launched in 1991. The ATLAS Cultural Tourism Project (Richards, 2010) developed a standard questionnaire that is still in use today. This generated a wealth of information on cultural tourism at sites across Europe in the early 1990s (Richards, 1996), and was later extended to other areas of the world as the ATLAS network grew (Richards, 2007). One of the outputs of this project is a more philosophical take on the 'baggage' of cultural tourism by Jim Butcher, which contains early rumblings of his later work on ethical and moral tourism (Butcher, 2015). Another offshoot of the ATLAS Cultural Tourism Project was the development of the 'creative tourism' concept. The idea of facilitating the development of creativity among producers and consumers was first mooted in the EUROTEX project run by ATLAS from 1996 to 1998 (Richards, Onderwater and Stam, 1998). The concept of using creativity to get tourists more involved with the places they visit, and to provide more relevance, dignity and income for local people was first piloted
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism
2012
""The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies in this field of Tourism. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research on this significant stream of tourism and its future direction. The book is divided into seven inter-related sections. Part I looks at the historical, philosophical and theoretical framework for cultural tourism. This section debates tourist autonomy role play, authenticity, imaginaries, cross-cultural issues and inter-disciplinarity. Part II analyses the role that politics takes in cultural tourism. This section also looks at ways in which cultural tourism is used as a policy instrument for economic development. Part III focuses on social patterns and trends, such as the mobilities paradigm, performativity, reflexivity and traditional hospitality, as well as considering sensitive social issues such as dark tourism. Part IV analyses community and development, exploring adaptive forms of cultural tourism, as well as more sustainable models for indigenous tourism development. Part V discusses landscapes and destinations, including the transformation of space into place, issues of authenticity in landscape, the transformation of urban and rural landscapes into tourism products, and conservation versus development dilemmas. Part VI refers to regeneration and planning, especially the creative turn in cultural tourism, which can be used to avoid problems of serial reproduction, standardization and homogenization. Part VII deals with the tourist and visitor experience, emphasizing the desire of tourists to be more actively and interactively engaged in cultural tourism. This significant volume offers the reader a comprehensive synthesis of this field, conveying the latest thinking and research. The text is international in focus, encouraging dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and areas of study and will be an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in cultural tourism. This is essential reading for students, researchers and academics of Tourism as well as those of related studies, in particular Cultural Studies, Leisure, Geography, Sociology, Politics and Economics. ""
International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences , 2021
This review article traces the development of cultural tourism as a field of research over the past decade, identifying major trends and research areas. Cultural tourism has recently been reaffirmed by the UNWTO as a major element of international tourism consumption, accounting for over 39% of tourism arrivals. Cultural tourism research has also grown rapidly, particularly in fields such as cultural consumption, cultural motivations, heritage conservation, cultural tourism economics, anthropology and the relationship with the creative economy.