...Bob McKercher Purpose This paper aims to discuss the evolution of the cultural tourism market and what its future may be. Design/methodology/approach Instead of seeing the cultural tourism market as homogeneous, a segmentation model was developed based on the centrality of culture...

.... The context in which humour is shared can affect how it is appreciated (Wimer and Beins, 2008). Certain leisure situations and settings may control when it is appropriate to be amused since the broader social, historical, and cultural factors come into play (Van Giffen and Maher, 1995). Future studies may...

...Greg Richards Purpose This paper aims to review the development of the relationship between culture and tourism over the past 75 years and outline some future developments over the coming 75 years. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on a review of previous major work on cultural...

...Roberta Garibaldi; Andrea Pozzi Purpose This paper aims to understand how food and drink producers have combined food and culture into the tourism experience through an explorative analysis on a sample of Italian enterprises. Design/methodology/approach The paper opted for a two-stage analysis...

...Yasin Boylu; Asli D.A. Tasci; William C. Gartner Purpose The purpose of this paper is threefold: measure the differences in importance of cultural values between Turkish hosts and European guests; measure perceived cultural difference (distance) to see if importance of cultural values...

...Francesc González‐Reverté; Oriol Miralbell‐Izard Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the touristic potential of music festivals in Catalonia. It is an opportune goal because even though this region is experiencing an important increase of new festivals and cultural events...

...Glenn McCartney Purpose The purpose of this paper is primarily to examine the impact of cultural background on image formation by looking at Macao's regional tourism destination image perceptions by its main tourist markets of China (PRC), Hong Kong and Taiwan. Other image formation components...

...Selma Zaiane Tunisian tourism plays a significant role in the economical balance of the country, providing an important source of entry to foreign currency, thanks to its privileged geographical situation, proximate to Europe, and as well to its protected and preserved cultural, physical...

... culture, entertainment and particularly about the new technologies that influence both. The main point of this reflection is how culture and entertainment, processed by new information technologies and telecommunications, inserted in the complexity of the globalization and in the core of the post...

...Craig A. Peterson; Claire McCarthy One of the major attractions of travel has always been exposure to the various components that make up another culture. Traditions, customs, religion, ceremonies, rituals, the arts, crafts, language, dress, food, architecture and landscaping are all elements...