Review by Choice Review
This comprehensive and thoughtful work coherently examines the contradictions inherent in the very concept of cultural tourism. On the one hand the packaging of cultural attractions as tourism products has grown both in terms of its importance to the travel consumer and as a revenue generator. Conversely, cultural heritage management often views cultural tourism as, at best, a double-edged sword that prevents balanced, sustainable development. The authors, an academic and a cultural heritage analyst, address the challenges of cultural tourism from each perspective by first defining tourism and how it works and then cultural heritage management and how it works. A synthesis, typology, and assessment methodologies are then proposed. The authors offer a global, detailed exposition of various issues in a lucid, well-organized, and balanced fashion. They have performed a great service to both the professional and student with the publication of this perceptive volume. Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students and government and private sector policy makers. S. A. Schulman CUNY Kingsborough Community College
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Review by Choice Review
