Heritage tourism

Wageningen University & Research scholars use critical and post-structural approaches to examine the intersections between (in)tangible heritage, tourism and development.

Employing their expertise in the dynamics of cultural landscape, heritage, memory and conflict, the researchers look at conflicts and governance arrangements surrounding natural, agricultural, urban, migratory and personal heritage policies and practices. The focus lies specifically on heritage-from-below approaches and practices.

Research on heritage tourism

The strange place called ‘our half of the city’: identity, place and landscape in divided Mostar By Ana Aceska - The aim of this project is to critically examine and juxtapose two often separated research objectives: on the one hand, it looks at...

Publications

Authenticity and the Contradictions of the Ecotourism Script
Büscher, Bram , Bremer, Renée van den , Fletcher, Robert , Koot, Stasja (2017) Critical Arts 31 (2017)4. - ISSN 0256-0046 - p. 37 - 52.
Trilateral Wadden Sea World Heritage Foundation, Exploring added value, strategy and organisation
During, R. , Coninx, I. , Simeonova, V. (2014) Wageningen : Alterra, Wageningen-UR (Alterra-rapport 2505) - p.
The Bushman brand in cultural ecotourism: indigenous modernities in a neoliberal political economy
Koot, Stasja (2015)
Performing "Chinese-ness" in Singkawang
Ong, C.E. , Ormond, M.E. , Sulianti, Dian (2017) Asia Pacific Viewpoint 58 (2017)1. - ISSN 1360-7456 - p. 41 - 56.