Overview
- Presents an overview of research and best practices associated with heritage tourism in Vietnam, and in Asia
- Offers key lessons for policy-making and theorization to improve heritage tourism
- Informs efforts to preserve and regenerate both natural and cultural heritage on a regional and global scale
Part of the book series: Global Vietnam: Across Time, Space and Community (GVATSC)
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About this book
This book provides an overview of research and best practices associated with heritage tourism, with a particular focus on Vietnam, in conversation with heritage tourism in other Asian contexts. These include Iran in the Middle East, Sri Lanka in South Asia, Japan and China in East Asia, Thailand in Southeast Asia, and Brunei and the Philippines in the South Pacific. By delving into crucial questions and challenges relating to cultural innovation, preservation, and authenticity, it offers key lessons for policy-making and theorisation which not only contribute to understanding and improving heritage tourism in Vietnam, specifically, and in Asia more broadly, but also inform efforts to preserve and regenerate both natural and cultural heritage on a global scale. It is relevant to researchers and student communities working within areas of heritage, sustainability, tourism, geography, and in Asian studies.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Heritagisation
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The Politics of Heritage Tourism
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Authenticity
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
V. Dao Truong is an assistant professor of tourism in Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and an affiliated researcher in Tourism Research in Economic Environs and Society (TRESS), North-West University, South Africa. Dao serves as an associate editor for Journal of Social Marketing and an editorial board member for Tourism Planning & Development, International Review on Public and Non-profit Marketing, Social Marketing Quarterly, Economia Corpernicana, and Equilibrium.
David W. Knight is a Center for Collaborative Conservation Fellow and co-Director of the US-China Lab for Destination Development at Colorado State University. Since 2015, he has held intermittent international positions including visiting scholar and affiliate faculty (Associate Professor) at Central China Normal University in Hubei, China. His multi-disciplinary research explores tourism-linked empowerment, poverty alleviation, and destination resilience from the resident perspective, informing tourism planning and sustainability associated with National Parks, Chinese tourist behavior, marine protected areas, UNESCO World Heritage sites, and rural regeneration.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heritage Tourism
Book Subtitle: Vietnam and Asia
Editors: V. Dao Truong, David W. Knight
Series Title: Global Vietnam: Across Time, Space and Community
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-5427-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-96-5426-0Published: 31 May 2025
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-96-5429-1Due: 14 June 2026
eBook ISBN: 978-981-96-5427-7Published: 30 May 2025
Series ISSN: 2731-7552
Series E-ISSN: 2731-7560
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 268
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Heritage, Tourism Management, Asian Culture, Cultural Geography, Asian History, Environmental and Sustainability Education