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{"title":"Smart positioning: how smart technologies can increase the attractiveness of heritage tourism destinations? The case of a small-scale Hungarian heritage city","authors":"Ivett Pinke-Sziva, Krisztina Keller, László Kovács","doi":"10.1080/1743873x.2023.2276271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2023.2276271","url":null,"abstract":"Small-scale heritage towns usually face fierce competition from surrounding destinations, particularly in peripheral rural areas where tourism holds important possibilities for regional development. This study examines on-site smart tourism technology as a tool to increase attractiveness and differentiation of heritage destinations using examples of Hungarian destinations. The research seeks to answer the question whether a small-scale heritage destination can become a more attractive destination due to technology from the perspective of potential tourists. The paper analyzes quantitative data collected from 537 potential tourists. Principal component analysis was used to identify the factors considering attractive and differential on-site technologies. A regression model was created to examine how these factors affect the potential tourist's decision-making: whether heritage towns with smart on-site tools are too similar to towns that do not use such technologies. Three factors of on-site technologies have been identified: digital sightseeing, smart attractions, and smart infrastructure. According to the regression model, digital sightseeing is the key pull factor, but smart attractions and smart infrastructure also have a positive effect in small towns. The study presents the first empirical research on the effect of smart technology on positioning small-size heritage towns based on demand-side research.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135540051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bending history into heritage at hidden Christian sites in Nagasaki, Japan: UNESCO World Heritage site designation and tourism","authors":"Atsuko Hashimoto, David J. Telfer","doi":"10.1080/1743873x.2023.2276869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2023.2276869","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTA UNESCO World Heritage site designation is seen as a pathway to developing sustainable tourism and increasing opportunities to receive funding for the maintenance and management of the site. However, the designation of sites is often highly political with criticisms raised regarding the processes used by UNESCO. The inflexibility of selection criteria and the demand for tangible evidence of authenticity are inevitably jeopardising the selection of important heritage sites that need to be preserved. Outsider interference, distortion of historical facts, staging, and the Disneyfication of heritage are other contentions raised over how applications are manipulated to achieve a UNESCO designation. Through a qualitative narrative analysis and site visits, this paper examines the case of Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region of Japan to examine how the intervention of ICOMOS significantly altered its application for World Heritage site designation and the resulting challenges the applicants faced in satisfying the selection criteria, thereby staging their heritage for tourism in the process. Greater recognition of local voices and alternative narratives is critical in the designation process to be true to history in an age dominated by heritage.KEYWORDS: UNESCO World Heritage sitesICOMOSNagasaki Hidden ChristiandistortionDisneyficationtourism Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAtsuko HashimotoAtsuko Hashimoto is Professor in the Department of Geography and Tourism Studies at Brock University, Canada. Her areas of research include Green Tourism in rural Japan, socio-cultural issues in tourism, culinary tourism, heritage tourism, and social justice in tourism.David J. TelferDavid J. Telfer is Professor in the Department of Geography and Tourism Studies at Brock University, Canada. His areas of research include the relationship between development theory and tourism, tourism planning, heritage tourism, and Green Tourism in rural Japan.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135636709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intangible cultural heritage and tourism in China: a critical approach <b>Intangible cultural heritage and tourism in China: a critical approach</b> , by Junjie Su, Bristol, UK and Jackson, TN, Channel View, 2023, 232 pp., £109.95 (hbk), ISBN: 978-1845418632","authors":"Xiaoxiao Fu","doi":"10.1080/1743873x.2023.2278943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2023.2278943","url":null,"abstract":"\"Intangible cultural heritage and tourism in China: a critical approach.\" Journal of Heritage Tourism, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135634572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘We gave the city its image and put it on the map.’: intangible cultural heritage and city branding in Buenos Aires and Valencia","authors":"Camila del Mármol, Beatriz Santamarina","doi":"10.1080/1743873x.2023.2268737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2023.2268737","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136318927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The rise of paranormal investigations as virtual dark tourism on YouTube","authors":"Nicole Basaraba","doi":"10.1080/1743873x.2023.2268746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2023.2268746","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes the rising popularity of paranormal investigations on YouTube as a new form of armchair travel, namely virtual dark tourism. To support this discovery, this study gathered statistics on this new genre of virtual dark tourism on YouTube; uncovered the most common types of dark tourism sites visited by paranormal investigators; and details the typical paranormal investigation genre conventions in the method of storytelling used on Sam and Colby's (2014, YouTube [YouTube Channel]. YouTube. Retrieved 31 March 2023 https://www.youtube.com/c/samandcolby/about) which arguably led to its high-level of success on YouTube. The study highlights some of the dangers, risks, and ethical considerations for future tour guides and researchers for this type of dark tourism. It also summarises the methods of income generated by YouTubers conducting paranormal investigation tours, which can be informative for future businesses and content creators. This study was investigated using digital ethnography, and distant and close reading of 60 YouTube channels which focus specifically on the niche of paranormal investigations (i.e. ghost hunting).","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Let’s listen: the voices of ethnic villagers in identifying host-tourist interaction issues in the Central Highlands, Vietnam","authors":"Kieu T.T. Nguyen, Laurie Murphy, Tingzhen Chen, Philip L. Pearce","doi":"10.1080/1743873x.2023.2259512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2023.2259512","url":null,"abstract":"Host-tourist interaction is a core attraction of ethnic tourism. Yet both parties may confront challenges in such interactions because of different cultural backgrounds. This study aims to investigate host-tourist interaction issues in Vietnam’s Central Highlands by adopting a qualitative approach wherein 31 semi-structured interviews were conducted with villagers. Results find that villagers interacted with domestic tourists mostly in private houses, tourist attractions and facilities, and on tours. In such settings, the content of interactions varied from low to high intensity. Derived from the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) theory [Pearce, W. B., & Cronen, V. E. (1980). Communication action and meaning. Praeger], verbal (language) and non-verbal behaviour and cultural patterns were the greatest interaction difficulties. While interaction difficulties occurred across different settings, higher intensity interactions resulted in more positive outcomes. This study enriches the existing knowledge on interaction between ethnic hosts and domestic tourists in the intra-national context. The interpretive theoretical and methodological utility of CMM provided insight into interaction difficulties, and opportunities to facilitate positive interactions in ethnic tourism development. Further implications for villagers, tourists, local policymakers, and tour operators were suggested to build long-term sustainability of the host-tourist relationship in the Central Highlands.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135695968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing emotional responses of tourists in cultural heritage tourism: the case of Pingyao, China","authors":"S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, Shiwen Lu","doi":"10.1080/1743873x.2023.2254420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2023.2254420","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis study aims to examine the interplay between heritage tourists’ experiences and their emotional responses, and to identify the mediating effect of Memorable Tourism Experiences (MTE), drawing upon the stimulus–organism–response (SOR) theory. The study was conducted in Pingyao, a UNESCO-listed heritage city. Employing a convergent concurrent mixed-methods approach, this study combines quantitative (questionnaire) and qualitative (interview) methods to collect data. The results identified the positive effects of authenticity, nostalgia, and sacredness on MTE. Additionally, the study demonstrated that under the mediating effect of MTE, authenticity, nostalgia, and sacredness directly and indirectly affect subjective well-being and destination image. Although the direct impact of sacredness on destination image has not been definitively identified, the indirect impact mediated by MTE is positive and significant. This paper contributes to the research on tourist emotions and offers practical suggestions for the development of cultural heritage sites.KEYWORDS: Cultural heritage tourismmemorable tourism experiences (MTE)subjective well-beingdestination imagedestination experience Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsS. Mostafa RasoolimaneshDr. S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh is a Professor of Tourism and Director of Sustainable Tourism Lab / Centre for Research and Innovation in Tourism (CRiT), and Head of Research for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Leisure Management, at Taylor's University, Malaysia. His research interest areas are sustainable tourism, heritage tourism, community participation, residents’ perceptions, and urban sustainability. He has published widely in high impact journals. Dr Mostafa is an editorial board member of more than 20 reputed tourism and hospitality journals.Shiwen LuShiwen Lu is a PhD candidate in Hospitality and Tourism Management at Taylor's University, Malaysia. He has published in high impact journals. His research interest revolves around services branding, consumer behavior, travel and tourism marketing, and cultural tourism research.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135581852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"World heritage classification and tourism: divergent trajectories in Marrakech Medina (Morocco) and M’Zab Valley (Algeria)","authors":"Naimeh Rezaei, Jordi Nofre, Zahed Ghaderi","doi":"10.1080/1743873x.2023.2259509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2023.2259509","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis study aims to explore the reasons that have led to unequal tourism development between the two World Heritage Sites in Little Maghreb, in Northern Africa: the Marrakech Medina in Morocco and the M’Zab Valley in Algeria. Based on an exploratory ethnography consisting of observational fieldwork and semi-structured interviews with tourists, private investors, real estate agencies, tourism agencies, local artisans, and heritage and tourism specialists, the findings reveal that unlike in Western contexts, state interventionist policies have a decisive influence on the configuration of unequal tourism development in Marrakech and M’Zab Valley. This study highlights the need for designing new, community-based policy tools in both Morocco and Algeria in order to move forward more resilient, competitive, inclusive and sustainable local economies in these two UNESCO World Heritage Sites.KEYWORDS: World Heritage Sitetourism developmenturban trajectoryMarrakech MedinaM’Zab Valley AcknowledgementsWe would like to extend our heartfelt appreciation to all the interviewees who generously contributed their time and expertise. This includes tourists, tour guides, tourism agency managers, owners of tourist accommodations, university professors, and residents in Marrakech and M’Zab.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The MEDA program was the main financial framework for the cooperation of the European Union with the Mediterranean countries for the period 1995–2006.Additional informationNotes on contributorsNaimeh RezaeiNaimeh Rezaei is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Urban Development, University of Tehran. She conducts research on urban heritage, heritage tourism urban change and vernacular architecture. Her research focuses mainly on Iran and the North African Region.Jordi NofreJordi Nofre is FCT Associate Research Professor in Urban Geography at the Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences, NOVA University of Lisbon. He conducts research on nightlife, tourism, and urban change. He is coordinator of the Lisbon-based LXNIGHTS Research Group, co-founder of the International Night Studies Network, and Main Coordinator of the ‘Next Generation Nights in Europe’ COST Action proposal.Zahed GhaderiZahed Ghaderi is currently attached to the Department of Tourism, College of Arts and Social Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. He has over two decades of both academic and practical experience. Zahed has published extensively in top-tier tourism and hospitality journals such as Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, etc. His research interests include but are not limited to heritage and cultural tourism, sustainable tourism, and tourism planning.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134886390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The origins of the Canadian Birkebeiner Ski Festival: invented traditions, winter sportscapes, and heritage sport tourism in sustainability and the UNESCO Beaver Hills Biosphere","authors":"PearlAnn Reichwein","doi":"10.1080/1743873x.2023.2256898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2023.2256898","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe Canadian Birkebeiner Ski Festival emerged as the world’s third Birkebeiner cross-country ski loppet in 1985, emulating the Norwegian Birkebeiner and the American Birkebeiner. This study examines the early years of the Canadian Birkebeiner as a heritage sport tourism event with routes near Edmonton, Alberta, that became an annual festival and attraction in western Canada. Invented tradition, sportscapes, and heritage sport tourism are a conceptual frame to analyse how the Festival represented the Birkebeiner legends, how skiers and skiing constituted landscapes, and how the event contributed to sustainability. The Canadian Birkebeiner resulted in a winter sport festival and sportscape that shaped cross-country skiing, trails, and public lands, and was indicative of fluid social relations and rural place making by means of skiing. Based on archival and oral history sources, the study argues the Canadian Birkebeiner was an invented tradition that originated with a ski loppet instrumental in the negotiation of terrain for cross-country skiing that contributed to winter sportscapes and heritage sport tourism in the Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area, and, ultimately, within the UNESCO Beaver Hills Biosphere. It contributes to studies of winter events with local and broader implications for sustainable heritage tourism.KEYWORDS: Canadian Birkebeiner Ski Festivalheritage sport tourismsustainable tourismUNESCO biosphere reservescross-country ski trailswinter events Acknowledgments:Charlotte Mitchell is gratefully acknowledged for assistance. This work draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Brian Peters, interview by author, Edmonton, AB, January 14, 2011, REB ID Pro00019013, University of Alberta; references to Peters draw on interview unless otherwise indicated.2 For press coverage see, Ship ahoy!, Edmonton Journal, 10 February 1985, p. A1; Yardley Jones, First Annual Canadian Birkebeiner [cartoon], Edmonton Journal, p. C1; Nick Lees, Nick flunks ski test, Edmonton Journal, 10 February 1985, p. C3; Cross County: Birkebeiner, Edmonton Journal, 10 February 1985, p. C6.Additional informationNotes on contributorsPearlAnn ReichweinPearlAnn Reichwein, PhD, is a Professor at the University of Alberta who studies the history of the Canadian West. Exploring the cultural production of tourism, landscapes, and memory, her publications include Uplift: Visual Culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2020), co-authored with Karen Wall, and Climber's Paradise: Making Canada's Mountain Parks, 1906-1974 (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2014), which garnered the prestigious Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize and was a Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival finalist. Dr. Reichwein was an invited guest lecturer at University of Gustave Eiffel and led ","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134887203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Slovenian folk-pop music as a place and nation making strategy between heritage and popular culture","authors":"Jasmina Šepetavc, Natalija Majsova","doi":"10.1080/1743873x.2023.2256897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2023.2256897","url":null,"abstract":"Cultural heritage tourism partly depends on authorized heritage definitions, and partly on complex bottom-up processes of heritage identification, interpretation, and communication. This paper addresses the ways in which music, when understood as intangible heritage, may be used for place making and nation branding purposes, and the dynamic between these two processes, as seen from the perspective of cultural and heritage tourism workers. To analyze this dynamic, we focus on the genre of Slovenian folk-pop music. Invented in the 1950s, it has since then become the prevalent (popular) musical element of the Slovenian cultural landscape, while its variants have also, and in parallel to ‘national’ characterization of the genre, been appropriated in various local contexts. We trace how Slovenian folk pop simultaneously partakes in the construction of the country’s national brand and in local place making strategies of heritage promotion, deployed by national, regional, and local stakeholders. We draw on an extensive literature review, document analysis, and interviews with folk-pop festival organizers. Based on this initial mapping of the major stakeholders, we propose a classification of folk-pop music festivals that accounts for the different ways in which folk pop is used as an instrument of heritage tourism, place making, nation branding, and entertainment industries.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134912691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}