Overview
This volume provides a comprehensive account of the valuable tangible and intangible benefits of the development of heritage tourism. Tourism development is widely acknowledged as a crucial tool to foster the development of rural and urban areas. To this end, this book presents nine case studies from international authors that reflect how tourism development is helpful—economically, socially, and otherwise—for community capacity building. The case studies from the countries of Spain, Portugal, Australia, Dubai, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and India demonstrate the uses of various management strategies and methods for rural and urban areas, and cover some of the major topics related to community-based tourism, community capacity building, and community participation in developing heritage tourism. Chapters consider the conservation of heritage resources and tourism promotion of destinations that provide opportunities to local communities to strengthen their economies and social standards. Key features: water conservation in urban landscape as natural, cultural, and historic tourism resources spiritual and religious heritage tourism cultural tourism and the support of public and private funds economic development and its effect on cultural and natural resources public-private-partnerships to ensure sustainable development talent management challenges tribal tourism and tribal festivals, which are the mirror of their culture and could be major tourist attractions The methodologies and proposed management strategies discussed by the book's researchers and professors will be valuable for policymakers, administrators, tourism promoters, researchers, and academicians who are involved with the tourism industry.
Full Product Details
Author: Surabhi Srivastava
Publisher: Apple Academic Press Inc.
Imprint: Apple Academic Press Inc.
Weight: 0.420kg
ISBN: 9781774637647
ISBN 10: 1774637642
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 01 October 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Surabhi Srivastava, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Om Kothari Institute of Management, Kota, Rajasthan. She was formerly a senior researcher at the University of Kota, India. Her core research area is exploring heritage tourism and the possibility of community development. She also studied tribal and nature tourism development with alternative tourism strategies. To date, she has authored five books on tourism development and has participated at and presented many research papers at national and international seminars and conferences. She has been teaching tourism management subjects for the last 20 years at various institutes in Lucknow, Kanpur, and Kota, India.
