Leadership in tourism: assessment of cultural tourist attractions

DOI

10.2991/icsbal-19.2019.9How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Tourism, management, leadership, taxonomy, cultural tourism

Abstract

This paper focuses on the leadership in cultural tourism. The aim of the paper is to complete the picture of cultural tourism and its cultural, social, as well as economic impacts on cultural destinations (e.g. cities, local attractions, museums, and other types of tangible and intangible heritage in general). We apply a special cultural taxonomy based on the review of tourism-related literature and on our own model that includes classifications of tourists’ aims, types, and goals. Thence, we employ the tools of economic theory to assess and to quantity these impacts. The outcomes of this research might help to develop a theoretically based methodology that might be employed when there is a need to assess the economic and social impacts on cultural attractions. We use an example of various cultural tourism destinations in London, Amsterdam, or Nottingham in order to prove our point and to demonstrate the applicability of our approach. All in all, our results demonstrate the feasibility and practicability of the evaluation method based on the new tourism taxonomy. We argue that the method that is based on combined evaluation might be helpful for local stakeholders and policymakers (as well as for local residents and for tourists themselves, albeit indirectly) in assessing the tourism potential of local cultural attractions from the social, political, and economic point of view. All of the above might contribute to the leading potential of cultural tourist destinations in question and enhance their popularity and development.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jing Wang
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TI  - Leadership in tourism: assessment of cultural tourist attractions
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social, Business, and Academic Leadership (ICSBAL 2019)
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