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
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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... -
Mussert's Wall
In the Dutch memory the World War 2 culture, the discussion on managing and memorializing difficult heritage has long been eluded. Recently, a... -
World Heritage and Tourism in China: Sanqingshan National Park and Jingdezhen
By dr. Chin Ee Ong - This project examines cultural and natural heritage and their interactions with tourism in China. Fieldwork is situated in... -
Moroccan Dreams: colonial and post-colonial landscapes
By prof. Claudio Minca & dr. Lauren Wagner - We examine the role of the Protectorate government, particularly as it was designed and led by... -
Contested Memoryscapes: The Politics of Second World War Commemoration in Singapore
By dr. Hamzah Bin Muzaini - Within human geography, and the social sciences more generally, the literature that has developed around the phenomenon of...
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News on heritage tourism
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Veni grant: Slavery, heritage and tourism in Ghana, Suriname, Netherlands
- Assistant Professor Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong of the Cultural Geography Group has been awarded a Veni grant for a research project which examines how... -
Mussert's Wall: the future of dark heritage
- The Wall of Mussert in Lunteren symbolises a dark page in our history. It is seen as ‘dark heritage’. How to handle this in the best... -
Alumni student publishes on Warfare Tourism
- Joost Gieling, alumnus of the MSc Leisure, Tourism and Environment, published a paper based on his MSc thesis related to warfare tourism in...
Publications
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Municipal strategies for protecting the sense of place through public space management in historic cities : A case study of Amsterdam
Cities 136 (2023). - ISSN 0264-2751 - 9 p. -
Safety and authenticity risks in heritage food preparation at different types of food service establishments : A case study of Saudi Arabia
Heliyon (2023), Volume: 9, Issue: 2 - ISSN 2405-8440 -
Developing context-specific frameworks for integrated sustainability assessment of agricultural intensity change : An application for Europe
Environmental Science & Policy 137 (2022). - ISSN 1462-9011 - p. 128 - 142. -
Tourism and coastal & maritime cultural heritage: a dual relation
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 20 (2022)6. - ISSN 1476-6825 - p. 806 - 826. -
Veni Research Project: Slavery, Heritage and Tourism in the Ghana-Suriname-Netherlands Triangle
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A different view on (world) heritage. The need for multi-perspective data analyses in historical landscape studies: The example of Schokland (NL)
Journal of Cultural Heritage 53 (2022). - ISSN 1296-2074 - p. 190 - 205. -
Perceived authenticity of the Pancasila Sakti Museum by high school students
International Journal of Tourism Anthropology 8 (2021)3. - ISSN 1759-0442 - p. 254 - 275. -
The embodied absence of the past: transformative geographies of slavery heritage tourism
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"This tour was an exceptional surprise": Tourism and the cultural imagination of slavery and colonial heritage in Amsterdam
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Geographies of embodied absences: tracing the transformative role of slavery heritage tourism in unifying the global African family