The Future of Cultural Tourism

Edited by Xavier Matteucci, Simone Moretti

Publication date:

15 April 2025

Publisher

Channel View Publications

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781845419288

This book provides multi-layered and nuanced perspectives on how drivers of change may influence cultural tourism on a global, national and local level. As such, it contributes to a greater understanding of how cultural tourism will be governed, performed and experienced within a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous future environment. The volume examines how the cultural tourism sector can address the needs of cultural tourists through product and service development, offers insights into alternative, post-anthropocentric values underpinning cultural tourism governance and consumption, and engages with immersive, collaborative, slow and technology-driven cultural heritage-based tourism experiences. The book includes both empirical and conceptual chapters, with the contributors suggesting various alternatives that are underpinned by utopian and/or dystopian outlooks on the likely future(s) of cultural tourism.

Chapter 8 is free to download as an open access publication under a CC BY NC ND licence. You can download it here: https://zenodo.org/records/14730188.

A long-awaited and easily accessible volume that moves us into a new era of cultural tourism research and highlights key areas centred on governance, consumption, and technologies. It will be of great interest to those working in the areas of cultural studies, social geography, social anthropology, and tourism.