Description
The global popularity and lucrative potential of tourism has made sustainability a major concern for archaeologists, site managers, politicians, local communities, tourism officials, and other stakeholders. This book establishes new, interdisciplinary ground for tourism and archaeology that will foster a new generation of sustainable thinking and practice. First, three teams of co-authors from both disciplines tackle key conceptual dilemmas: exploration vs. exploitation, education vs. entertainment, and cultural sensitivity vs. embeddedness. Then, international case studies examine site development, marketing, community relations, and other on-the-ground examples of heritage work. The volume launches an important new era of collaboration in this growing field.
Table of Contents
I: Concepts; 1: Tourism and Archaeology: An Introduction; 2: Archaeology Meccas of Tourism: Exploration, Protection, and Exploitation; 3: Integrating Education and Entertainment in Archaeological Tourism: Complementary Concepts or Opposite Ends of the Spectrum?; 4: Cultural Sensitivity and Embeddedness; II: Case Studies; 5: The Management and Marketing of Archaeological Sites: The Case of Hadrian's Wall; 6: Vindolanda; 7: Casa Malpais: Development of an Archaeological Park in Rural Arizona; 8: Visitors at the Trench Edge: Outreach and Archaeology at Historic Dilston, Northumberland, UK; 9: Archaeology, Tourism, and Other “Marriages of Convenience:” Examples from Western Canada; 10: Saving Punalu‘u: Ka‘? as a Cultural K?puka; 11: Framing the Mogao Caves in the Encounters between Tourists and Site Interpreters; 12: Archaeology and Tourism: Lessons from the Zimbabwean Experience; 13: Meet the Flintstones: Contestable Cultural Heritage of the Pica-Piedras in a Phurépecha Community in Mexico; 14: Conclusion: Manifesting Sustainable Meeting Grounds
