Provides an analysis of the key political and social debates in the field of cultural tourism, using a range of international examples. This book highlights the complex dynamism of cultural tourism and its potential to transform destinations and people in a rapidly changing world

Explores the linkages between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, this book examines the festivals as ways of responding to various forms of crisis