Sharing Cultures 2009 – International Conference on Intangible Heritage, Pico Island, Azores, Portugal, 29 May – 1 June (original) (raw)
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The aim of this special issue of Ottoman: Journal of Tourism and Management Research is to trace the latest trends in the relationship between Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and tourism. Traditional practices, festivities, events, and crafts have existed as resource for sustainable tourism development much before the UNESCO Convention for Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage entered into force in 2003 and before various national and international documents were deployed to intervene in the tourism product formation and marketing processes. In the past several years, the relationship between ICH and tourism is marked by new dynamics, uncovers previously unexplored resources and outlines new prospects of development and interaction. In spite of the significant contributions in several fields of study (culture anthropology, tourism, cultural diplomacy, politics, etc.), the existing scholarly literature does not reflect the rich transformations that the relationship between ICH and tourism is experiencing nowadays. New regulations, administrative and legislative changes on local, national and international national level prompt the reconsideration on ethical issues, valorization of ICH elements, and create a fusion in the strategic and practical realms of tourism interactions with other industries' plans for sustainable development. New paradigms are appearing through the intervention of NGOs initiatives in safeguarding and valorization of ICH, directly or indirectly casting their influence on tourism development. All these transformations are affecting several tourism experiences in the cultural, wine & gourmet, creative, ethno-, eco-, adventure, and rural types of tourism, to mention a few. On their side, the upsurge of new travel industry initiatives on a global scale poses a significant impact on local communities' traditional practices and forms finding expression in their use as a resource to attract tourist attention, their adjustment to market rules, and their susceptibility to over-commercialization and decontextualization.
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