Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Cultural Tourism and Regional Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Interdisciplinary Integration of Heritage Studies and Sustainable Development

      • Vesselin Loulanski, Tolina Loulanski

      Pages 3-22

   3. Towards a Conceptual Model for Heritagepreneurship and Regional Development

      • Hans Lundberg, Marcela Ramírez-Pasillas, Anders Högberg

      Pages 23-40

   4. Cultural Product and Cultural Communication as a Dynamic Bipolar Interaction and Creative Contribution to the Structural Recompiled of the Local Cultural Units

      • Labros Sdrolias, Nikolaos Kakkos, Dagmar Škodová-Parmová, Ladislav Rolinek, Eva Cudlínová, George Aspridis et al.

      Pages 41-67

   5. Cultural Tourism Revisited: The Case of Thessaly

      • Labros Vasiliadis, Panagiotis Trivellas, Dimitrios Belias, John Meleas, Dimitrios Kyriakou, Athanasios Koustelios

      Pages 69-78

   6. “The Cultural Landscape of the Alentejo Pyrite”: What’s Next?

      • Marta Duarte Oliveira, Jorge Tavares Ribeiro

      Pages 79-90

   7. Sustainable Tourism. Mdina: A Situation Analysis of a Cultural Destination

      • Nadia Theuma, George Cassar, Sarah Faith Azzopardi, Giuseppina Cardia

      Pages 91-107

   8. The Development of Tourism in Albania and the Importance of Cultural Tourism

      • Enkela Caca, Christos Ap. Ladias, Antoneta Polo

      Pages 109-119

   9. Archaeological Rock Art Landscape of Northern Patagonia

      • Mónica Beatríz Gelós

      Pages 121-130

   10. Museums: From Cabinets of Curiosity to Cultural Shopping Experiences

       • Elizabeth Booth, Raymond Powell

       Pages 131-143

   11. How Film Tourists Experience Destinations

       • Yuri Kork

       Pages 145-156

   12. Citizen Perspectives on the Development of Local Cultural Resources: The Case of the Municipality of Serres

       • Ioannis Samoladas, Charalampos Zilianakis, Katerina Lazaridou, Konstantina Papadopoulou, Eleni Tsolaki, Dafni-Maria Nerantzaki

       Pages 157-170

   13. Residents’ Perceptions Toward Cultural, Social and Economic Benefits and Costs of Tourism Industry: An Empirical Survey

       • Panagiotis Trivellas, Nikolaos Kakkos, Labros Vasiliadis, Dimitrios Belias

       Pages 171-181

3. Emerging Forms of Tourism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Multilingual Online Communications in Corporate Websites: Cases of Romanian Dental Practices and Their Application to Health Tourism

      • Felicia Constantin, Androniki Kavoura

      Pages 185-196

   3. Hospitality—Medical Tourism: The Civil Responsibility of Tourist Service Providers

      • Margere Rosa de Oliveira, Izabel Cristina Schander de Almeida, Helena Charko Ribeiro, Eurico de Oliveira Santos

      Pages 197-206

   4. Domestic Medical Tourism: A New Look on Patients of the Public Health System and Their Companions

      • Izabel Cristina Schander de Almeida, Helena Charko Ribeiro, Eurico de Oliveira Santos

      Pages 207-218

   5. Festivals for Local Products in Southern Bulgaria: The Perspective of Organizers

      • Ilinka Terziyska

      Pages 219-231

   6. The Quality Challenge in Rural Tourism’s Services: The Case of Madeira’s Country Homes

      • Elisabete Rodrigues

      Pages 233-251

This book focuses on cultural tourism as it develops into the second decade of the new millennium. It presents recent hospitality and tourism research findings from various sources, including academic researchers and scholars, industry professionals, government and quasi-government officials, and other key industry practitioners. It discusses the latest tourism industry trends and identifies gaps in the research from a pragmatic and applied perspective. It includes specific chapters on innovation in tourism, the virtual visitor, cross-cultural visions of digital collections, heritage and museum management in the digital era, cultural and digital tourism policy, marketing and governance, social media, emerging technologies and e-tourism and many other topics of contemporary significance in global hospitality and tourism. The book is edited in collaboration with the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT) and includes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cultural and Digital Tourism. 

• cultural tourism
• digital tourism
• e-tourism
• heritage tourism
• ICT applications in tourism
• tourism marketing

• Offers numerous examples and cases from the whole spectrum of cultural tourism, including art, museums and travel
  
• Provides insight into the integration of new and innovative technologies as a key success factor
  
• Presents strategies and emerging products in cultural and digital tourism
  

• Technological Educational Institute, Athens, Greece

  Vicky Katsoni

• Dept of Geography and Regional Planning, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

  Anastasia Stratigea

Dr. Vicky Katsoni is an Associate Professor at the Tourism Department of the Technological Educational Institute(TEI) of Athens (Greece). She is also teaching at the Greek Open University at the MSc program of Tourism Management. She holds a PhD in Tourism Marketing Management and ICT Applications in Tourism, an MBA and a BA (Hons) in Economics. Having worked for over twenty years as an academic in the tertiary education, Dr. Katsoni is well-versed in academic multi-disciplinary research and has participated in several European and National research projects. Her research interests include tourism marketing, digital tourism, ICTs and tourist development, special forms of tourism and consumer behavior. She has published 9 books on tourism, chapters in edited volumes, and numerous papers in peer-reviewed academic journals. She is president of the nonprofit "International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism" and member of the editorial board of many scientific journals in tourism and marketing.

Dr. Anastasia Stratigea is an Associate Professor at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Department of Geography and Regional Planning. She is also teaching at the MSc Program of “Environment and Development”, NTUA, Athens. She has a Diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a PhD from National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Her PhD has focused ICTs and Regional Development. She has participated in a number of EU and National Projects relating to planning and policy in the energy, tourism, agricultural and transport sectors. She has published her work in a number of international conferences and journals. She is reviewer in a number of International Journals. She is member of a variety of scientific networks (NECTAR, COST A22, EFONET, SMARTMED etc.). Her research interests are focusing on Sustainable Development, Spatial Planning, Urban and Regional Planning, Regional Development and Policy,Tourism and Regional Development,, Sustainable Tourism, Tourism Planning, Smart Tourism, and the Management of Cultural and Natural Resources.  

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