TY - JOUR
KW - Cultural consumption
KW - Cultural tourism
KW - Indigenous tourism
KW - intangible heritage
KW - Tangible heritage
AU - Greg Richards
AB - This review article traces the development of cultural tourism as a field of research over the past decade, identifying major trends and research areas. Cultural tourism has recently been re-affirmed by the UNWTO as a major element of international tourism consumption, accounting for over 39\% of tourism arrivals. Cultural tourism research has also grown rapidly, particularly in fields such as cultural consumption, cultural motivations, heritage conservation, cultural tourism economics, anthropology and the relationship with the creative economy. Major research trends include the shift from tangible to intangible heritage, more attention for indigenous and other minority groups and a geographical expansion in the coverage of cultural tourism research. The field also reflects a number of  turns  in social science, including the mobilities turn, the performance turn and the creative turn. The paper concludes with a number of suggestions for future research directions, such as the development of trans-modern cultures and the impacts of new technologies.
BT - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
DA - sep
DO - 10.1016/j.jhtm.2018.03.005
LA - English
N1 - Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
N2 - This review article traces the development of cultural tourism as a field of research over the past decade, identifying major trends and research areas. Cultural tourism has recently been re-affirmed by the UNWTO as a major element of international tourism consumption, accounting for over 39\% of tourism arrivals. Cultural tourism research has also grown rapidly, particularly in fields such as cultural consumption, cultural motivations, heritage conservation, cultural tourism economics, anthropology and the relationship with the creative economy. Major research trends include the shift from tangible to intangible heritage, more attention for indigenous and other minority groups and a geographical expansion in the coverage of cultural tourism research. The field also reflects a number of  turns  in social science, including the mobilities turn, the performance turn and the creative turn. The paper concludes with a number of suggestions for future research directions, such as the development of trans-modern cultures and the impacts of new technologies.
PY - 2018
SP - 12
EP - 21
T2 - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
TI - Cultural tourism: A review of recent research and trends
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049312029&doi=10.1016%2fj.jhtm.2018.03.005&partnerID=40&md5=d2d69a8c4eb7d0811dcf30aab074a985
VL - 36
SN - 14476770 (ISSN)
ER -