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Tourism and Built Heritage

The relationship between tourism and built heritage probably is one of the most discussed issues, however, the conflicts between the adaptive reuse of built heritage and innovative tourism remain arguable. This collection selected several cases about the interpretation and production of built heritage and how the community involves in the management of built heritage in different stages, it may provide some new insight into tourism development and built heritage reuse.

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Introduction: tourism and built heritage
Guest editor: Chaozhi Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China


  1. The tensions and threats in historic urban landscapes brought about by heritage tourism are still regional, global, general, and dynamic issues. For Kulangsu, there is an obvious problem in the connection betw...

    Authors: Long Zhao, Yuan Li, Na Zhang and Zhenxin Zhang
    Citation: Built Heritage 2023 7:6
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  2. Traditional architecture in agricultural heritage sites (AHSs) embodies the livelihood of local communities and residents, which is an important part of the AHS. However, with the intervention of tourism, some...

    Authors: Ying Wang, Yehong Sun, Xingguo Gu, Wenjie Wu and Cancan Yao
    Citation: Built Heritage 2022 6:34
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  5. This study draws on Henri Lefebvre’s (The production of space, 1992, translated by D. Nicholson-Smith) concept of the spatial triad to examine the micropolitics of the production of urban and social space in a ca...

    Authors: Johnny F. I. Lam, Chin-Ee Ong, Tingting Wu, Rui He and Shougang Li
    Citation: Built Heritage 2022 6:26
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  6. Ancient cities and towns are popular tourism destinations worldwide. In this paper, Guangfu Ancient City in Yongnian County, Hebei Province, China, is taken as the case study and the modified creative destruct...

    Authors: Menghan Wang, Xiaoran Bai and Mingming Su
    Citation: Built Heritage 2022 6:25
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