Archaeological tourism: A creative approach

David Ross, Gunjan Saxena, Fernando Correia and Pauline Deutz

Annals of Tourism Research, 2017, vol. 67, issue C, 37-47

Abstract: This theoretical paper conceptualises the role of tourism providers in facilitating creative tourism experiences by focusing on their ingenious enterprise, which we argue can help capture the tourism potential of intangible archaeological heritage. Intangible archaeological heritage can be understood as knowledge emanating from actors’ own interpretation of archaeological sites that have either become physically inaccessible or been destroyed since initial exploration. Archaeological heritage is often equated with tangibility, which results in an omission of experiences that intangible archaeological heritage can offer. By proposing a rethinking of the archaeological tourism framework, we argue that the touristic value of both tangible and intangible archaeological heritage is better realised and can be further utilised to study the easily overlooked aspect of providers’ ingenuity.

Keywords: Archaeological heritage; Creative tourism; Co-creation; Cultural heritage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2017.08.001

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