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Developing industrial heritage tourism: A case study of the proposed jeep museum in Toledo, Ohio
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In this paper, the authors identify six key attributes of developing industry heritage tourism from the previous literature and evaluate a proposal for the National Historic Jeep Museum by the city of Toledo, Ohio, revealing that although the potentials for conserving and interpreting the museum are valued highly, there exist conflicting views by various stakeholders.About:
This article is published in Tourism Management.The article was published on 2006-12-01. It has received 131 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Heritage tourism & Industrial heritage.read more
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Progress in visitor attraction research: Towards more effective management
TL;DR: The authors in this article reviewed and reflected on research publications in relation to this sector and identified the key management issues experienced at VAs, and established how factors such as ownership and visitor volume help to explain the complexities encountered in managing VAs.
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Identity and community - reflections on the development of mining heritage tourism in Southern Spain.
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of community identities on heritage tourism has been investigated in four mining areas in Southern Spain where there has been little or no development of the heritage tourism industry and the results obtained are of interest for two reasons: they provide in-depth insight into the nature of industrial heritage tourism; and on the other, they have a clearly practical dimension that recommends the inclusion of indicators relating to community identity in the assessment, planning and management of this type of tourism.
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Actor-network theory and stakeholder collaboration: the case of Cultural Districts.
Michela Arnaboldi,Nicola Spiller +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the actor-network theory (ANT) is used to define a "conditional path" whereby specific actions are activated when controversies emerge in tourism/cultural systems.
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The polysemy of punishment memorialization: Dark tourism and Ontario's penal history museums
Kevin Walby,Justin Piché +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the crossover between dark tourism literature and cultural criminology is explored, with a focus on cultural representations of prisons and prisoners, as well as exploring the crossover of dark tourism and criminal justice.
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Generation Y: An Agenda for Future Visitor Attraction Research
TL;DR: A comprehensive secondary-based synthesis of previous studies on the profile and patterns of consumption of Generation Y, their consumption experiences and the role of information communication technologies and social media in determining their emerging patterns of behaviour at visitor attractions is presented in this paper.
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Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the focus group research, focusing on the following topics: planning the group study, developing a questioning route, participants in a focus group, moderating skills, and conducting interviews with young people.
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The Past is a Foreign Country
C. Vann Woodward,David Lowenthal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the look of age and the benefits and burdens of the past are discussed in the context of anachronism and changing the past in an attempt to understand how we know the past.
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Authenticity and commoditization in tourism.
TL;DR: In this article, three basic assumptions, common in the literature on tourism, regarding "commoditization", "staged authenticity" and the inability of tourists to have authentic experiences are re-examined.