Indoor Camping in Fortified Heritage Buildings: A New Way of Sustainable Tourism Valorization

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

Sustainable Tourism, A Way to Develop Borderlands (Case Study: Kermanshah)

Today, the tourism industry is one of the key sources to income, employment and infrastructure to achieve sustainable development. The infrastructural approach currently used in planning the tourism industry and in other types of development is to achieve sustainable development. With an overview, we can see the weak position of the border regions in comparison with the central regions of the c...

Spatiotemporal Thematic Maps for Sustainable Development of Heritage Site Tourism

UNESCO world heritage sites’ list is getting longer and longer. Many sites among them have attracted countless tourists each year. However, the lack of efficient systematic surveillance and monitoring methods let the evitable and inevitable impacts of tourism development happen unperceived. Our research focuses on an e-tourism system with heritage sites monitoring to explore the possibilities f...

Chapter 88 Creative Tourism and Cultural Heritage : A New Perspective

This chapter analyses how cultural heritage destinations should evolve to keep pace with changes in the demand for cultural tourism. The empirical evidence shows that the most important heritage destinations suffer from a misalignment of their value propositions with respect to the new needs of cultural tourists. These types of gaps can be filled only by understanding the features and evolution...

Community Based Eco Cultural Heritage Tourism for Sustainable Development in the Asian Region: A Conceptual Framework

Tourism has emerged as one of the world’s largest industries and a fast growing economic sector. The Asian region attracts a growing number of quality-conscious tourists as it is endowed with a rich biocultural/heritage diversity. However, the diversity and integrity of many Asian tourist destinations have been severely eroded or irreversibly damaged due to ill-conceived, poorly planned, and un...