Heritage and Tourism: Community, Enterprise, Government & Tourists

An international Conference, Guangzhou, China, 8 - 10 July 2007

Major Conference Themes:

Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management:

• Hosts and Guests: Whose Heritage and Nostalgia?
• Sustainable Community-based Heritage Tourism
• Living Heritage: Tourism in Minority Ethnic Communities
• Conservation or Development: Case Studies in Community Heritage through Tourism

Tourism and Natural Heritage Management:

• Ecotourism, Nature Tourism, and Environmental Tourism
• People and/or the Environment: Managing Environmental Destination
• Environmental Heritage and Climate Change Issues
• Conservation or Development: Case Studies in Environmental Heritage through Tourism

The Heritage Tourist:

• Tourist Experience and Motivations for Heritage
• Measuring and Managing the Heritage Tourism Segments

Heritage Tourism Theory:

• Defining the Heritage and Tourism Relationship
• Image, Themes and Forms of Nostalgia and Heritage Tourism

Conference Sponsors:

• Tourism Commission - China Geographical Society
• Commission on the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change - International Geographical Union
• Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, China
• Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
• China Tourism Geography Union

Conference Organizers:

• Zhongshan University - Center for Tourism Research and Planning (Guangzhou, China)
• Northern Arizona University - Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation (Flagstaff, Arizona, USA)

Conference Location: Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China