Cultural Sustainable Tourism

This book is an assemblage of diverse yet homogenous research papers that bring together the issues and challenges of cultural heritage conservation and tourism sustainability. The richness of this book stems from its inclusion of diverse case studies from around the globe while scrutinizing the cases of both deterioration and sustainability of cultural heritage belonging to different eras.

This book sheds light on the connections between culture as an essential dimension of local sustainability and cultural dimensions of sustainable tourism, further contributing to the complex discussion between culture and tourism.

This book gives an overview of current research and subjects of discussion that focuses on cultural sustainable tourism through several sections, such as planning and management of sustainable tourism, sustainable cultural tourism development in a digital era, social and economic impacts of cultural tourism, and sustainable tourism development in urban areas

Part 1 - Planning and Management of Sustainable Tourism.- 1. Cultural Heritage Management in Post-Industrial Sites: The Case Study of Seka Paper Museum and Kocaeli Science Center.- 2. The Sanctuary of Bom Jesus Do Monte (Braga) World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism.- 3. Wine tourism as an alternative of sustainable development of the rural region – a case study of the Czech Republic.- 4. Place attachment as a multidimensional construct: a structural equation modelling.- 5. A tool for assessing public space occupation as applied to a historical district: Alfama, Lisbon (Portugal).- 6. “We Gave our Today for your Tomorrow”: Peace Education and Sustainable Tourism in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea.- Part 2: Sustainable Cultural Tourism Development in a Digital Era.- 7. Museums and Digital Mobile Technologies: Proposal Application for the Ducal Palace of the Bragança.- 8. Tourism, territory (ies) and local development practices of participation and governance of the destination Alto Minho (Portugal).- 9. BRENDA Digital Tours: Designing a Gamified Augmented Reality Application to Encourage Gastronomy Tourism and local food exploration.- 10. The Application of Geospatial Information Technology in Heritage Tourism in Plateau State, Nigeria.- Part 3: Social and Economic Impacts of Cultural Tourism.- 11. Perspective of Mapungubwe Descendants Traditional Leaders concerning their traditional values and Cultural Heritage Preservation.- 12. Tourism Economics – Tourists’ Perception of the Tourist Tax in Oporto.- 13. Salzedas/S. João de Tarouca as a possible UNESCO cultural tourism nomination.- 14. An Approach for Documenting the Historic Drinking Water Troughs of Karachi Pakistan.- 15. The Impacts of the cancellation off Historic Re-enactments in Portugal - The Case of Santa Maria da Feira.- 16. Sustainability of Cultural Tourism in East African Community.- Part 4: Sustainable Tourism Development in Urban Areas.- 17. A study of characteristics of vernacular dwellings in Guanzhong Area: Taking Dangjia Village and Guanzhong Folk Museum as Examples.- 18. How do cultural vitality and socio - economic factors influence urban tourism? Evidence from Romanian cities.- 19. Health and Wellness Tourism: Contributions for a local sustainable development strategy.- 20. Alcobaça’s agro-landscape hinterland: new rurality and a sustainable approach to tourism.- 21. Self-sufficient city As Organising Principle for Sustainable Development: Making Bozcaada a Self-sufficient and Sustainable Island.- 22. Tourist demand for railway heritage: The case of the historic train in Douro, Portugal.