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The global popularity and lucrative potential of tourism has made sustainability a major concern for archaeologists, site managers, politicians, local communities, tourism officials, and other stakeholders. This book establishes new, interdisciplinary ground for tourism and archaeology that will foster a new generation of sustainable thinking and practice. First, three teams of co-authors from both disciplines tackle key conceptual dilemmas: exploration vs. exploitation, education vs. entertainment, and cultural sensitivity vs. embeddedness. Then, international case studies examine site development, marketing, community relations, and other on-the-ground examples of heritage work. The volume launches an important new era of collaboration in this growing field.

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Cameron Walker is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton, and a member of World Heritage Tourism Research Network based at Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She also serves as California Network Coordinator for the Society for American Archaeology. Her interest in the intersection between archaeology, anthropology and tourism are detailed in her book Heritage or Heresy: Archaeology and Culture on the Maya Riviera (Univ. of Alabama Press 2009). Neil Carr is Associate Professor in the Tourism Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and has held positions at the University of Queensland, Australia, and University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers in a variety of academic journals and edited books, is the editor of the new e-journal Recreation and Society in Africa, Asia and South America , and sits on the editorial boards of four academic journals.

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