Cultural heritage and tourism : an introduction

Cultural heritage and tourism -- Section 1. Consumption of culture: Heritage demand and experience -- The heritage supply: Attractions and services -- Spatial perspectives and heritage resources -- Looking for something real: Heritage, tourism and elusive authenticity -- Tourism and the politics of heritage -- The need to conserve the past: The impacts of tourism -- Protective legislation and conservation organizations -- Protecting the past for today: Heritage conservation and tourism -- Telling the story: Interpreting the past for visitors -- Planning principles and cultural heritage destinations -- Marketing the past for today -- Raising revenue and managing visitors -- Section 2. Museums: Keepers of the past -- Archaeological sites and ancient monuments -- Landscapes of the elite and the ordinary -- The industrial past -- Religious sites and pilgrimage -- Diasporas, roots and personal heritage tourism -- Indigenous culture -- Dark tourism: Atrocity and human suffering -- Conclusions: The future of the past.