Table of Contents

1: Introduction to Cultural Tourism Philosophy and Management 2: Managing Heritage and Cultural Tourism Resources 3: The Impact of Cultural Tourism on Host Communities 4: Cultural Tourism: Global and Local Perspectives? 5: Cultural Sites and their Management: Co-creation of Value or Co-creation of Experience 6: Mobile Interpretation at Cultural Attractions: Insights into Users and Non-Users of Audio-Guides 7: Emerging Concepts and Case studies of Eco-cultural Tourism 8: Re-Inventing British Culture: Multi-Culturalism and Travel 9: Case Study 1: Irish Cultural Tourism - Case Study of Policy Development 10: Case Study 2: Archaeotourism - The Past is our Future? 11: Case Study 3: Urban Generation and Culture: Maltese Example 12: Case Study 4: The Cultural Tourism Sustainability Mix Applied to the Development of Contemplative Tourism in Limburg - The Netherlands 13: Case Study 5: Network of Hungarian Rural Heritage Farmhouses 14: Case Study 6: Managing Heritage and Cultural Tourism Resources in Dubrovnik 15: Case Study 7: Urban Generation and Cultural Development of Girona 16: Case Study 8: Reflection on the Constituent Elements of Cultural Tourism: Theatre Festivals. A Case Study of Temporada Alta (Girona, Spain) 17: Case Study 9: The London 2012 Olympic Games: The Cultural Tourist as a Pillar of Sustainability 18: Case Study 10: Reenactment as an aspect of Cultural Tourism 19: Case Study 11: Music, Money and Movement

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About the Author

Dr.Kevin Griffin Bed, MA, PhD. Having studied teaching then tourism organisation and historic settlement I worked in a number of Geography Departments in the Dublin / Kildare area. Since 2001 I have worked at the DIT where I am actively involved in teaching and researching a broad range of tourism topics with particular specialism in both heritage and sustainable tourism.

Editor in Chief, International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
Editor in Chief, International Journal of Tour Guiding Research
Editor in Chief, International Journal of Islands Research
Series Editor, CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Book Series
Research Interests My main areas of academic interest include:
* Tourism and Sustainability / Environmental Issues
* Heritage Tourism
* Religious Tourism / Pilgrimage
* Social Tourism
* Teaching Methodologies and Tourism
* Local History / Heritage Dr Razaq Raj is Principal Lecturer in the Leeds Business School. His research interests include community events, outdoor events, economic impacts, religious tourism, cultural festivals and sustainable tourism, cultural diversity in events management and international tourism.

Dr Razaq Raj is the author of the textbooks Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Management: An International Perspective, Event Management: An integrated and practical approach and Event Management and Sustainability.

Dr Razaq Raj is also a board member of international journals and academic associations.
Editor of International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
Editor of International Journal of Islands Research
Editor of International Journal of Islamic Tourism
Series Editor, CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Book Series Nigel D. Morpeth (BA, MSc, PhD, PGCHE) currently is a senior lecturer in Tourism Management, School of Events Tourism and Hospitality, at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He started his academic career in 1989, after working for three UK local authorities within the field of community-based leisure provision, and has also taught at the University of Lincolnshire and was Visiting Scholar at Southern Cross University, New South Wales, Australia. He has published widely in books and journals and has jointly edited two tourism books with CABI. His current research projects and interests are in community and sustainability initiatives and the visual arts and tourism planning and development as well as in pilgrimage and tourism. Dolors Vidal-Casellas, PhD, is Dean and a senior lecturer at the Tourism Faculty of the University of Girona. She is Founder of the Official Master in Cultural Tourism, a member of the Contemporary Culture and Art Chair and also member of the research groups 'Contemporary Art Theories' and 'Higher Institute of Tourism Studies' (INSETUR). She is director of the collection 'Turisme cultural' (cultural tourism) by Edicions Vitel·la (http://www.edicionsvitella.com). She joined different cooperation programmes with universities from Algeria, Sao Paolo, Piracicaba (Brazil) and San Martin de Porres (Peru). She is also a member of cultural tourism international networks: Ibertur, Atlas and Unitwin 'Culture, tourisme et developpement' (UNESCO). Her research interests include cultural tourism, religious tourism, history of tourism, heritage management, destination imagery and tourism planning and policies. Neus Crous-Costa is an assistant professor and junior researcher at the Faculty of Tourism (University of Girona) and Tourism Officer at the Museu d'Art de Girona (Girona province art museum). She graduated in tourism studies and holds a Masters degree in tourism planning and management (cultural tourism programme). She is involved in several research projects about cooperation, history of tourism, religious tourism products and destination imagery.