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Tourism and heritage conservation in Singapore.
Peggy Teo,Shirlena Huang +1 more
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Using a survey of tourists and locals, this paper investigated the success of Singapore's Civic and Cultural District as a conservation project and found that tourists were attracted by the facades of old colonial buildings that have been carefully restored.About:
This article is published in Annals of Tourism Research.The article was published on 1995-01-01. It has received 89 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cultural heritage management & Industrial heritage.read more
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Tourism development and cultural policies in China
TL;DR: For example, tourism has emerged as an effective vehicle for synthesizing some of the differences through its contribution to the modernization process, its utilization of heritage for product development, and its role in meeting some socialist objectives as discussed by the authors.
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An integrative framework for urban tourism research
TL;DR: In this paper, an integrative framework for urban tourism is presented, which emphasizes the identification of subject cells within a matrix defined in terms of scale (site, district, city-wide, regional, national, and international) and themes (demand, supply, development, and impacts).
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Urban heritage tourism.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for an integrative approach to understand the processes and outcomes associated with urban heritage tourism development and show that while similar macro-scale processes have pushed both cities to adopt heritage tourism as an urban redevelopment strategy, the final outcomes reflect important local influences.
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A multi-objective decision-making process for reuse selection of historic buildings
Huey-Jiun Wang,Zhi-Teng Zeng +1 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive methodology for the reuse selection of historic buildings, which enables decision-makers to better understand the complex relationships of the relevant attributes in reuse selection problems, which may subsequently improve the acceptability of the decision.
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Tourism, Religion and Religiosity: A Holy Mess
TL;DR: In this article, tourists' visitation patterns to a heritage site of religious significance (the Wailing Wall, Israel) are explored and differences are found between tourists based on their religious affiliation and religiosity.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
TL;DR: The conditions for city diversity, the generators of diversity, and the need for mixed primary uses are discussed in this paper, with a focus on the use of small blocks for small blocks.
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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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Topophilia: a study of environmental perception, attitudes, and values
TL;DR: Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of as mentioned in this paper, which examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the individual.
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Hosts and Guests : The Anthropology of Tourism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the five types of tourism-historical, cultural, ethnic, environmental, and recreational-and their impact on diverse societies over a broad geographical range.