Cultural Landscape and Sustainable Heritage Tourism
A special issue of Heritage (ISSN 2571-9408).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 170
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The landscape is a visual result existing in a territory, whose characteristics are derived from the combination of different elements, both natural and cultural. Cultural elements are of great importance to understand the concept of landscape and its dynamics of evolution and transformation.
The cultural landscape is a perceptual result in which there are aesthetic connotations, associated with the "artistic" combination of material elements on the territory, and dynamic connotations, associated with the variation in the distribution of material elements over time, or associated with the change in values, attitudes, and preferences of individuals or societies in each period.
In relation to the above, the concept of heritage is understood as a set of elements inherited from previous generations that are currently the object of conservation and appreciation by society.
The growing incorporation of landscape heritage into tourism development strategies is linked to the essential principles of sustainability. The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) that provide insights into the actions undertaken in the field of sustainable heritage tourism, the strategies developed for innovation and tourism intelligence, and the projects aimed at linking sustainable heritage tourism with the cultural landscape. The intention is to highlight good practices and the achievement of objectives that reinforce the character of tourism and heritage sustainability.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Sustainable heritage tourism and tourism intelligence.
- Sustainable practices based on the tourist use of the cultural landscape.
- Cultural heritage as an object of responsible tourist consumption.
- New forms of heritage and sustainable tourism.
- Linking heritage and sustainable tourism to economic, cultural, social, and territorial criteria.
- Heritage tourism, sustainability, and new Information Technologies.
- Heritage, sustainability, tourism, and Geographic Information Systems.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Carlos J. Pardo Abad
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cultural landscape
- heritage tourism
- tourism sustainability
- territorial heritage
- challenges and opportunities of sustainable heritage tourism
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