Title:

Tourism, Heritage and (Multi)culturalism

Description:

Tourism involves the promotion and marketing, if not indeed the creation, of cultural difference and cultural heritage. This session examines a series of cases concerning the productive forces surrounding tourism, multiculturalism, and heritage. This includes the representation of Indigenous Peoples as a component of destination imaging on the internet; protocols for regional tourism geography and tourism development in poor nations; the relationship between tourism site promotion and local community development; how the use of multiculturalism within tourism promotion parallels the social and political aims of those in power; and the paradoxes and potential of integrated economic, tourism and community development for World Heritage sites.

Anticipated Attendance:

100

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Sponsorships:

Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group