Cultural Heritage, Community Engagement and Sustainable Tourism

This timely and innovative book critically explores how cultural heritage in the global south can be used to mobilise community engagement and promote sustainable tourism at archaeological sites.

Whilst the volume covers theoretical issues, it also offers insight into how both small and large projects from low- and middle-income countries, start, plan, and develop, as well as if and how they achieve their sustainable goals. Core to this investigation, each specifically commissioned chapter contribution looks at the challenges of developing collaboration and joint ownership between multiple stakeholders, ranging from local communities to national governments. In addition, the book also considers how the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic were managed, with lessons for future events. This significant volume recognises the value of developing collaborative partnerships between academic institutes, NGOs and local communities, to help achieve community engagement and sustainable development at tourist archaeological sites.

This is valuable reading for those interested in tourism, heritage studies, archaeology, geography, tourism studies and cultural studies.