What is site tourism? What is heritage tourism? What's the difference between them?

Generally speaking, the accepted definition of heritage tourism refers to "a tourism activity that pays attention to all the materials and phenomena that we have passed down, from historical buildings to arts and crafts and beautiful scenery" (Yale, P, 199 1), which distinguishes heritage tourism from other tourism types from the perspective of tourists' motivation. Although some scholars think that heritage tourism should be classified according to the characteristics of tourism objects, that is, heritage sites, and tourism activities to heritage sites are heritage tourism (Yaniv Poria cocos, 200 1), more scholars think that the debate on the definition is meaningless, and the key is to study the practice of heritage tourism (Brian Garaude, 200 1). "

The emergence of heritage tourism is closely related to the continuous commercialization of the concept and connotation of heritage. Although heritage tourism activities have been produced in Europe as early as the late18th century, it is generally believed that the European "Year of Architectural Heritage" of 1975 is a sign that heritage tourism has become a mass consumption demand. In this year, the "Heritage Center" that introduces the history of the city can be seen everywhere (Dower, M, 1978), and the heritage protection has been greatly promoted.

Many scholars have explained and analyzed the origin of heritage tourism (hewitson, R.,1987; Rojek, c,1993; Shook,1991; Urry, J., 1990), although their views are different, they basically think that tourists' cultural and heritage experiences and experience needs are their main motives, and heritage tourism is a kind of sublimated nostalgia. "Dissatisfaction with the status quo and disappointment with the future have made many people nostalgic and equate the past with the future." D, 198 1) and "nostalgia and conservatism, emphasizing order and tradition, hoping to arouse the authority of the past", whether they are "meaningful" or "real", or just a superficial "pseudo-event" in entertainment packaging, or just an experience for tourists to generate and construct their own meaning (urry/kloc-

Second, the site tourism

Site tourism is to visit places with outstanding universal value from the perspective of history, aesthetics, ethnology or anthropology, such as human engineering or joint engineering between nature and people, archaeological sites and so on. Site refers to the remains of human activities and belongs to the archaeological concept. The site is characterized by incomplete remnants and a certain regional scope. Many prehistoric sites and ancient sites are mostly buried under the surface. For example, Baoji Beishouling Site (7 100_+ 140 years ago) and Xi 'an Banpo Site (more than 6,000 years ago).

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