This chapter deals with cultural heritage-focused trails and routes. It describes several different types of heritage trails, and examines the important role these play in protecting a destination's cultural heritage and supporting its socio-economic development.

This chapter explores the potential of the arts to alleviate poverty in rural towns in the northeast of the USA. Four leaders in the rural cultural arts were interviewed in the autumn of 2015. Data from the interviews are presented according to four categories of arts-based strategies for economic...

This chapter contributes a case study that focuses on the extent to which tourism leads to local development or whether the tourists' quest for authenticity holds back development. By using the hill tribes of Northern Thailand as a representative case, the study highlights the need for governmental ...

This chapter traces tourism development in Arctic Canada at the time when the Nunavut had recently attained self-government, proving valuable lessons in achieving economic self-sufficiency. The chapter concludes that the future for tourism in Nunavut is promising, but continuing community and...

This chapter examines how Chicago, a city in the USA that previously was dependent on the manufacturing industry, has sought to improve its economic position and raise its national and international profile via locally-driven strategies focused on facilitating the physical, economic and cultural...

This book examines the destinations and sites that are being created for tourists, as well as for local people within an urban regeneration context, with a particular focus on tourism's relationship to urban regeneration and cultural development. It examines the impact of such developments on a...