This collection of papers discuss World Trade Law and focus on the contested nature of World Heritage at sites as diverse as The Netherlands, Ellis Island (USA), post-colonial Mesoamerica, Cambodia, Fiji, Kyrgyzstan, and Vietnam. In addition, eight research notes explore heritage interpretation in the USA, Lebanon, Peru, Indonesia, Singapore, Tasmania and India.

About the Author

David Harrison is a London educated Sociologist/Anthropologist who has taught at the University of Sussex, London Metropolitan University, and The University of the South Pacific in Fiji, from which he retired in 2014. The USP link continues, and he is also associated with St. Mary's University College in London and the University of Surrey. He has written extensively on tourism and development and has researched its impacts in Eastern Europe, Southern Africa, the Caribbean, the South Pacific and South-East Asia.

Michael Hitchcock is Director of the International Institute of Culture Tourism and Development, London Metropolitan University.

Reviews

This book is a solid addition to the scholarly literature on heritage tourism and, in particular, the geopolitics of the management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The editors have done an excellent job in providing both a geographically wide-ranging set of case studies and critical scholarly research. This is a fine volume for practitioners and scholars in heritage tourism management and research. Those with serious interests in World Heritage Sites, the UNESCO selection process, heritage management and heritage tourism ought to consider this volume.

* Charles R. de Burlo, University of Vermont, in Journal of Heritage Tourism 2:1 *



Book Information
ISBN 9781845410094
Author David Harrison
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
Imprint Channel View Publications
Publisher Channel View Publications Ltd
Weight(grams) 494g
Dimensions(mm) 248mm * 168mm * 16mm