Heritage Tourism

Catalog description

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Transdisciplinary examination of contemporary research and practice in heritage tourism and public culture; deploying variety of disciplinary outlooks to explore the representation of peoples, places and pasts in a range of settings from the indigenous and sacred to the post-industrial and post-colonial; theoretical insights into heritage related to place and space, community, politics and power, ethnicity, identity and belonging, key stakeholders in the local-global tourism industry, and issues related to justice and ethics; practical insights and ethical guidelines for the development, interpretation and management of heritage sites and places. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.