01136nas a2200121   4500000000100000008004100001100001600042700001900058245004100077490000700118520087500125022001401000                                       d1 aTosuke Yagi1 aFabian Frenzel00aTourism and urban heritage in Kibera0 v923 aTourism is not merely a practice in which heritage is consumed. Tourism also produces heri-tage. The paper considers the empirical domain of slum tourism, where bottom-up processes of attraction making are dominant. Such attraction making contributes to the recognition of Kibera as part of the urban heritage of Nairobi. Tourists are seeking elements of local culture to which guides respond creatively and spontaneously, creating the potential for the touristic  discovery  of heritage. Guides are also taking a more active role in re-producing relatively es-tablished notions or imaginaries of slum life, at times evoking heritage in notions of history, culture and locality. We advance people-centered approaches to understanding heritage, by showing the potential of tourist-guide interactions to create place attachment. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.  a0160-7383