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Cultivating Diverse Perspectives on Cultural and Heritage in Sustainable Tourism

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2024) | Viewed by 4254

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Dr. Young-joo Ahn

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Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Republic of Korea
Interests: consumer behavior; destination management; hospitality and tourism marketing; positive aging and life-span development
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on cultivating diverse perspectives on cultural and heritage in sustainable tourism. It aims to explore the multifaceted interplay between culture, heritage, and sustainable tourism. Cultural heritage sites face diverse challenges such as climate change, detrimental effects due to pollution, overuse and rapid urbanization, conflicts, and a lack of conservation planning and destination management. These sites would benefit from support and a deeper understanding among various stakeholders. Research on cultural and heritage in sustainable tourism can increase awareness of these challenges and facilitate the introduction of solutions and strategies for sustainable tourism. Researchers are invited to contribute a manuscript on the exploration of sustainable tourism, emphasizing the intricate connections between culture, heritage, and responsible travel practices in the realm of hospitality and tourism. This Special Issue welcomes original research papers that delve into various perspectives, innovative approaches, and diverse viewpoints. We hope that it can contribute to expanding our knowledge on the conservation and preservation of valuable cultural and heritage resources at tourism destinations and various stakeholders’ efforts for sustainable tourism. We also encourage you to submit original research papers, reviews, and case studies. This Special Issue seeks to foster a comprehensive understanding of how culture and heritage shape sustainable tourism. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Cultural and heritage tourism;
  • Sustainable tourism;
  • Tourist behaviours;
  • Stakeholders;
  • Challenges and opportunities of cultural and heritage sites;
  • UN sustainable development goals (SDGs);
  • World heritage sites (WHSs);
  • Regional tourism.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Young-joo Ahn
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • culture and heritage
  • sustainable tourism
  • regional tourism
  • destination management
  • world heritage sites (WHSs)
  • sustainable development goals (SDGs)

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Exploring Cultural and Heritage Attributes at Mount Yunqiu, China, Using Importance–Performance Analysis
by Yan Hu, Feng Lin, Qizhen Dong and Young-joo Ahn
Sustainability 2024, 16(13), 5431; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16135431 - 26 Jun 2024
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The preferences of tourists regarding their experiences play a crucial role in the management of tourism destinations; understanding tourist satisfaction enables managers to offer facilities and services that are aligned with tourists’ expectations. This study aimed to identify the destination attributes at Mt. [...] Read more.
The preferences of tourists regarding their experiences play a crucial role in the management of tourism destinations; understanding tourist satisfaction enables managers to offer facilities and services that are aligned with tourists’ expectations. This study aimed to identify the destination attributes at Mt. Yunqiu and utilize the traditional and revised IPA approaches and compare their results. It applied three different approaches of IPA to assess the perceived importance and performance of the attributes and factors. The three approaches comprised the traditional and modified IPA approaches. The research site was Mt. Yunqiu in Shanxi, which is one of the earliest sites from which humans originated and the center of the Yellow River civilization. A total of 350 questionnaires were utilized, and a total of 41 attributes of cultural and heritage sites were identified to determine the key attributes that attract tourists to the destination. The results present tourists’ perceptions of the destination and their satisfaction regarding various cultural and heritage attractions at Mt. Yunqiu. They thus provide empirical evidence and can be used to suggest various approaches to understand travelers’ perceptions of the importance and performance of different attributes at cultural and heritage sites in the context of Mt. Yunqiu. Full article
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Principles and Sustainable Perspectives in the Preservation of Earthen Architecture from the Past Societies of the Iberian Peninsula
by Sergio Manzano-Fernández, Fernando Vegas López-Manzanares, Camilla Mileto and Valentina Cristini
Sustainability 2024, 16(12), 5172; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16125172 - 18 Jun 2024
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In recent years, special attention has been paid to the lessons in sustainability offered by traditional and vernacular architecture, especially with regards to the promotion of both material and technical production in earthen construction. However, these systems were already widely found in past [...] Read more.
In recent years, special attention has been paid to the lessons in sustainability offered by traditional and vernacular architecture, especially with regards to the promotion of both material and technical production in earthen construction. However, these systems were already widely found in past societies, whose legacy in terms of construction is presented through the complex cultural framework of archaeological sites, which require highly variable work that lacks professional consensus, usually transcending the adaptive and sustainable nature originally observed. This dual nature aids the social operation of these scenarios and can prematurely hinder earthen construction’s life cycle and didactic quality, cementing its status as a necessary reflection for the identification and prevention of future problems. In terms of sustainability, the aim of this study is to analyze the spectrum of architectural interventions used for the preservation of earthen structures in archaeological sites in the Iberian Peninsula, in natural, social, and economic terms, while examining their capacity to adapt in the face of adverse phenomena. For this reason, following bibliographical review and fieldwork collection, a database was established combining a series of architectural characteristics and a history of interventions in 85 selected archaeological sites conserved in situ. Following reflection on these sites, maps were drawn up to show the geographical scope of these principles and offer a general overview of perspectives, highlighting the aspects deserving of varying levels of attention, as well as proposing strategies for sustainable preservation which will allow its transmission over time for the scientific and cultural enjoyment of coming generations. Full article
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A Quantitative Model to Measure the Level of Culture and Tourism Integration Based on a Spatial Perspective: A Case Study of Beijing from 2000 to 2022
by Dandan Xu, Xiangliang Li, Shuo Yan, Liying Cui, Xiaokun Liu and Yaomin Zheng
Sustainability 2024, 16(10), 4276; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16104276 - 19 May 2024
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The integration of culture and tourism has become an important factor in the development of the cultural tourism industry, and a quantitative measure of the degree of integration is important for understanding and promoting the high-quality development of the global cultural tourism industry. [...] Read more.
The integration of culture and tourism has become an important factor in the development of the cultural tourism industry, and a quantitative measure of the degree of integration is important for understanding and promoting the high-quality development of the global cultural tourism industry. This study aims to put forward a comprehensive analysis model to show the development trend of cultural and tourism integration, measure the degree of cultural and tourism integration, and analyze the factors affecting the regional heterogeneity of cultural and tourism integration. Using the spatial quantification method of entropy, the spatial coupling coordination degree model, and the geographical weighting model, this paper analyzes the effect and influencing factors of cultural and tourism integration in various districts and counties in Beijing. The results show that the cultural tourism resource endowment of Beijing presents an upward trend and a gradual spillover trend, with obvious spillover to the east and north. The effect of district integration in Beijing has gradually weakened from the city center to the outside, but there is still a serious phenomenon of two levels of differentiation. Factors such as the economic development level, tourism output, cultural output, policy support, and consumption level have spatial heterogeneity on the effect of cultural and tourism integration in each district of Beijing, but the degree of influence is small. Full article
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