WIT Press


Community Based Cultural Tourism: Findings From The US

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

76

Pages

8

Published

2004

Size

207 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/ST040171

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

J. Herranz Jr., M.R. Jackson, F. Kabwasa-Green & D. Swenson

Abstract

Community-based cultural tourism remains an unexamined aspect of urban cultural tourism which has grown in importance during the past several decades primarily as an economic development strategy but also as a key characteristic for improving and indicating urban quality of life. While prevalent in Europe and other parts of the world, such tourism has also grown in scope and size in the United States which has experienced a proliferation of informally and formally designated arts and cultural districts, entertainment districts, and historic districts. Despite the prevalence of such efforts, there has been relatively little research into community-based cultural tourism in comparison to the extent that urban cultural tourism is being developed in cities and towns across the United States. This paper contributes to addressing this knowledge gap by explai

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