The Future of Cultural Tourism

This book provides multi-layered and nuanced perspectives on how drivers of change may influence cultural tourism on a global national and local level. As such it contributes to a greater understanding of how cultural tourism will be governed performed and experienced within a volatile uncertain complex and ambiguous future environment. The volume examines how the cultural tourism sector can address the needs of cultural tourists through product and service development offers insights into alternative post-anthropocentric values underpinning cultural tourism governance and consumption and engages with immersive collaborative slow and technology-driven cultural heritage-based tourism experiences. The book includes both empirical and conceptual chapters with the contributors suggesting various alternatives that are underpinned by utopian and/or dystopian outlooks on the likely future(s) of cultural tourism.Chapter 8 is free to download as an open access publication under a CC BY NC ND licence. You can download it here: zenodo.org/records/14730188.