Heritage and Tourism

CAHT 8003AEF

Course Guide

CAHT 8003AEF

Course Guide

Heritage and Tourism

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Course Coordinator:

Dr Liew Kai Khiun, BA, MA (NUS); PhD (UCL)

Aims

The course focuses on cultural heritage and its relationship with tourism. It examines the concepts, issues and development of cultural tourism and heritage protection in the context of increased global interactions. The main themes include conceptualisation, recognition and conservation of tangible and intangible assets, heritage supply and demand, cultural tourism impacts, authenticity issue, as well as managing cultural heritage under globalisation.

Contents

The course covers the following topics:

Heritage preservation regimes and institutions
Introduction of tangible and intangible cultural heritage
Reasons for the rise of heritage tourism
Heritage tourism supply and demand
Impacts of heritage tourism
Authenticity debate
Tourist gaze and commodification
Managing cultural heritage

Assessment

There will be assignments, projects and examination for the course. Students are required to submit assignments via the Online Learning Environment (OLE).