Purpose – This paper aims to determine the role of heritage tourism in Shetland Island destination development and how … exist between tourism stakeholders and their perceptions of the effectiveness of the heritage tourism public policy in … Shetland, though overall stakeholder collaboration succeeds in enhancing heritage conservation and development. Practical …

cultural heritage resources to foster regional development. Design/methodology/approach – Comparison of operational schemes …, market positions and branding of three successful cultural heritage centers in Germany, Great Britain and Russia demonstrates … a variety of regional development models based on cultural resources and tourism development, and reveals their …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of music‐based tourism in the context of the childhood … is chosen using existing work on music‐based tourism as a backdrop. Key informant interviews are the main sources of … primary data with a snowball technique used to gain access. Content and theme analysis is used. Findings – Music‐based tourism …

Assesses the relative saliency of image attributes associated with history, heritage and culture in shaping the … perceptions of places as tourism destinations. Such images tend to have been formed over a long period of time and result from … associated with a destination's history, heritage and culture were found to be the second most salient category. The implications …

Heritage tourism depends on a physical resource based primarily on listed buildings and scheduled monuments. Visiting … or staying in a historic building provides a rich tourism experience, but historic environments date from eras when … legislative protection from adverse change, but now need to balance conservation with public access for all. This paper discusses …

and conservation of heritage, not only to meet the challenges of emerging trends in cultural tourism, but mainly to keep …Cultural/Heritage tourism market has always been seen as very important in tourism development in Albania, even before … cultural/heritage. 2. Defining key success factors of cultural/heritage tourism in Albania, focused especially on sustainable …

/methodology/approach – The nearly four decades‐long application of UNESCO's World Heritage Convention offers a solid basis for a critical … World Heritage property, in order to illustrate major legal issues and how these were addressed by the parties. Originality …/value – As Secretary of the World Heritage Committee as well as Founder Director of the World Heritage Centre viewpoints the …