This chapter introduces conceptual, theoretical, policy and management dimensions of culture and presents various themes and critical discourses that underpin the chapters within this book. Sections discuss: the concept of culture; culture and tourism; engaging with cultural heritage; how culture...

This chapter explores cultural tourism and its related policies, considering the distinctiveness and pervasiveness of the concept within contemporary society, and how different societies value, plan for and develop policies of this nature. The chapter recognizes the almost inevitable...

This chapter provides important multi-cultural perspectives of culture that are intended to present a range of discourses on culture while also seeking to challenge the dominance of Eurocentric and 'white' perspectives of culture, which have become established as the bedrock on which cultural and...

This chapter defines Islamic tourism and presents an overview of the book's chapters.