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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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. -
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
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Heritage and heritage tourism in Africa: historical overview and contemporary issues
In: Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Africa / , Novelli, M., Adu-Ampong, E.A., Riberio, M.A.. - : Routledge - ISBN 9781138496088 - p. 69 - 84. -
Historic landscape and water heritage of Suzhou beyond the tourist gaze
In: Suzhou in Transition / , Tang, B., Cheung, P.. - : Taylor and Francis - ISBN 9780367439903 - p. 42 - 86. -
"Today is party A, tomorrow is party B" : The Elmina 2015 Strategy and the politics of tourism-led local economic development planning in Ghana
In: The Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Africa / , Novelli, M., Adu-Ampong, E.A., Ribeiro, M.A.. - London : Routledge - ISBN 9781138496088 - p. 199 - 219. -
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