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Sustainable Cultural Tourism Policies: Overview

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Introduction

For millennia, culture has been an integral part of travel and tourism. Travel to cultural and historical sites as well as to festivals, performances, and events has been recorded since antiquity (McKercher & du Cros 2002). However, up until 20–30 years ago, tourism was largely seen as a benign industry with little negative environmental, social, economic, or cultural impact (Murphy & Price 2005). This lack of sustainable tourism planning and preparedness has resulted in cultural, economic, and ecological damage at many tourist destinations. As a way to address these problems, various nations and international entities have created policies calling for increased sustainable tourism planning and management. This entry will briefly discuss the relationship between culture and tourism, the development of international sustainable cultural tourism policy, and several of its prominent charters.

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    Jessica Facciponti

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    Claire Smith

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Facciponti, J. (2014). Sustainable Cultural Tourism Policies: Overview. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1914

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