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... -
A new economic base for the Gulp Valley herd
In the valley of the river Gulp it is still possible to meet a shepherd with his herd. This shepherd and his herd represent a cultural heritage and... -
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...
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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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Geographies of slavery heritage tourism: places of remembrance and dialogue
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Slavery heritage tourism: places of remembrance and spaces of dialogue
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The globalisation of slavery heritage tourism in Ghana
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Geographies of slavery heritage tourism: place, practices & performativity in embodied tourism encounters
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Geographies of slavery heritage tourism: places of remembrance and dialogue
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Slavery heritage tourism: places of remembrance and spaces of dialogue
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Tending to Destinations: Conceptualising tourism’s transformative capacities
Tourist Studies 19 (2019)3. - ISSN 1468-7976 -
A Review of “World heritage sites and tourism: global and local relations” Edited by Laurent Bourdeau, Maria Gravari-Barbas and Mike Robinson, New York, Routledge, 2017, 206 pp., £110.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781409470618
Tourism Geographies 20 (2018)3. - ISSN 1461-6688 - p. 577 - 579. -
Designing Heritage Tourism Education by Friction
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Europe: the paradox of landscape change : A case-study based contribution to the understanding of landscape transitions
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): B.J.M. Arts, co-promotor(en): G.B.M. Pedroli. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463438094 - p.