Heritage and Tourism in Britain and Ireland [Hardcover]

This edited collection examines the natural, but sometimes troubled, relationship that exists between heritage and tourism. Chapters included focus on a selection of topics, including literary tourism, industrial heritage, conservation and care. Employing a range of historical and cultural materials, as well as an extensive number of case studies, the chapters offer an engaging overview of heritage and tourism developments across the Isles, especially in terms of recent policy and strategy initiatives, new facilities and infrastructure, as well as the different and evolving management systems currently in place. Interdisciplinary in scope, and drawing on the expertise of researchers from within both academia and industry, this volume will be of particular importance to those with interests in management and the humanities.

Chapter 1. Introduction; Glenn Hooper.- Chapter 2 .My Place or Yours? Reconciling visitor and local needs in the Regeneration of Glasgow through Culture and Heritage; Mark ONeill.?- Chapter 3. Promoting the Sacred: the potential for Pilgrimage-Touristic growth in Wales  A Theoretical and Applied Analysis; Simon Thomas.- Chapter 4. Heritage Tourism and the commodification of Contested Spaces: Ireland and the Battle of the Boyne Site; Ruth McManus and Gerry OReilly.- Chapter  5. Millstone Grit, Blackstone Edge: Literary and Heritage Tourism in the South Pennines, England; Karl Spracklen.- Chapter 6. Transforming Waterways: the tourism based Regeneration of Canals in Scotland; John J. Lennon.- Chapter 7. Welsh Heritage and Cultural Tourism: Engendering community Regeneration and environmental sustainability in the Lower Swansea Valley; Kathryn E. Flynn.- Chapter 8. Rural Heritage and Tourism in Ireland: A County Mayo Case Study; Catherine Keló½