Heritage and postmodern tourism.

TL;DR: In this paper, a collaborative approach to the relationship between heritage management and tourism development in Luang Prabang, Laos is examined, where the authors examine stakeholder collaboration and management roles, heritage tourism development, as well as the interdependence of the heritage conservation and tourism relationship.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between personal characteristics, site attributes, awareness, perceptions, and behavior (before, during, and after) and found that those who view a place as part of personal heritage are likely to behave significantly differently from others.

TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical exploration of the attraction system model, based on a survey of over 6,000 tourists to cultural attractions, is presented, which provides strong support both for the general structure of the model and for the idea that tourists are "pushed" towards attractions by their motivations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply geographical tools in an examination of the geographical distribution of sites and their spatial relationship to tourist origin cities to identify three major sources of threat that may compromise the protection of the heritage sites.

TL;DR: In this article, the context of conservation is discussed and a thematic framework for conservation values in practice is proposed. But the framework does not consider the role of the local community in the process of conservation.

TL;DR: This paper provided an overview of characteristics of visitors to Oxford, their impacts and the management responses to date, highlighting the varying perspectives and dimensions to impacts and to the visitor capacity of the city.