Strategies for the Tourism Industry

Strategies for Tourism Industry - Micro and Macro Perspectives

This chapter presented the role and positions of cultural tourism, as one of modern tourism industry’s most dynamically developing branch, in today’s global tourism market both from the theoretical and the practical point of view. With the definition of cultural tourism, the chapter tried to show the complex problems of the term as it is proved to be a contentious issue in tourism, since there is no adequate definition existing. In the lack of a uniformly accepted definition, cultural tourism can be characterized both from the perspective of supply and demand and also from the point of view of theoretical and practical approach. The study intended to provide an insight into both the tourism segments and attraction structure of cultural tourism. Sustainable Tourism and Cultural Heritage: A Review of Development Assistance and Its Potential to Promote Sustainability.

Kreg Lindberg, (1999).

This report tries to show the relationship between protection of cultural heritage, including World Heritage Sites, and tourism, describes strategies that can lead to sustainable tourism where cultural heritage is a key factor, and points out how development cooperation can play a role in this process, with a particular focus on both Africa and Asia.

It focuses also on how to promote interaction rather than conflict between the

needs of conservation management and tourism,

and particularly how development cooperation

can play a role in achieving this symbiosis

It also argues that development of sustainable tourism can be consistent with the aim of development cooperation in general.

This report was based on the experiences of the authors and available published and u...

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...lace this erasure in the context of expert anxieties regarding a contaminated universalism.

Exploring World Heritage practices through a double ethnographic and textual lens. This project adopts a multicultural framework, whereby a mosaic model of cultural difference guides World Heritage’s search for completeness and universality.

Methodology:

This project will utilize both quantitative and qualitative data collection tools, the initial phase of research focused on a comprehensive qualitative methodology utilizing different interviewing methods in order to understand and explore issues related to cultural tourism in depth with both international and domestic travelers.

Data collection: will consist of surveys and interviews with people in the tourism sector, and questionnaires that will be given to tourists during or following their visit to Palestine.