Cultural attractions and European tourism /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2001.
• Subjects: Heritage tourism > Europe.; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Arts, Entertainment and Cultural Heritage.; Tourism and Travel.; Case studies.; Cultural heritage.; Cultural tourism.; Tourism development.; Tourist attractions.; Electronic books.
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This book presents the findings of field research undertaken in 1997 under the European Cultural Tourism Research Project managed by the European Association for Tourism and Leisure Education. It looks at the relationship between tourists and specific cultural attractions in the Netherlands. In part...

Table of Contents:

• The development of cultural tourism in Europe / Greg Richards
• The market for cultural attractions / Greg Richards
• The experience industry and the creation of attractions / Greg Richards
• The cultural attraction distribution system / Greg Richards, Saskia Goedhart and Carla Herrijgers
• The Bonnefanten museum, Maastricht / Wil Munsters
• Urban regeneration and Glasgow's galleries with particular reference to the Burrell collection / David Leslie
• Clonmacnoise : a monastic site, burial ground and tourist attraction / Frances McGettigan and Kevin Burns
• Cultural heritage sites and their visitors : too many for too few? / Sue Berry and Graham Shephard
• Urban heritage tourism : globalization and localization / Michael Green
• The Budapest spring festival : a festival for Hungarians? / László Puczkó and Tamara Rátz
• The consumption of cultural tourism in Poland / Barbara Marciszewska
• Creative industries as milieux of innovation : the Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam / Caro Bonink and Erik Hitters
• European cultural attractions : trends and prospects / Greg Richards.