Heritage, Consumption and Content: Case Histories?

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Abstract

Heritage is more easily communicated, reached and talked about in the digital age, a time in which the spreading of transport opportunities have eased and developed cultural tourism and CH tourism. But has this situation led to a more open dialogue between visitors and local stakeholders, to ensure the destinations’ heritage conservation and, generally speaking, their sustainability? Global English content extracted through a period of six months from three reputed content ‘curation’ platforms and the leading tourism community TripAdvisor about five Italian destinations – Bergamo, Catania, Matera, Siena and Trieste – seem to show that local stakeholders do not necessarily put the Web to good use to ensure their heritage conservation and, in the long run, their destinations’ sustainability.


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Submitted: Dec. 21, 2016 | Accepted: March 21, 2017 | Published Dec. 31, 2017 | Language: en

Keywords Digital • Tourism • Heritage

Copyright © 2017 Roberto Peretta. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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