Local Wisdom on Urban Tourism

Based on an analysis of the status of urban heritage in urban ecosystem and its relationship with urban tourism development on the theory of ecological niche, this paper argues that urban heritage is a kind of nature-based human ecology, merging with natural ecology through the interaction of humans with nature, and urban heritage tourism is a kind of high-level cultural tourism, which is in essence the same with natural ecotourism while the existing problems such as non-ecological hotspots and ecological diseconomy in the urban heritage tourism are believed to take root in the narrowing and lowering of the heritage niche both in human ecology and in tourism exploitation and management. Thus the paper poses the concept of ecotype urban heritage tourism, introducing ecotourism into urban heritage tourism, and discusses the contents and requirements of ecotype urban tourism from three aspects--that is, urban space, development and management, contents and means--so as to construct a healthy urban ecosystem.

PurposeThis study aims to identify the role of this intangible cultural heritage (ICH) domain (i.e. social practices, rituals and festive events) in social representations in cross nations using the case of Mazu belief. This study also intends to compare the different social representations of the same religious belief among the regions and implies how ICH facilitates regional connections and its potential for urban tourism development.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses a mix of qualitative approaches, such as desktop research, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and participant observations. These approaches can supplement one another in discovering the cultural context of the Mazu belief and the perceived meanings of its ritual practices.FindingsMazu ritual practices in the four identified cities have different social representations, as explicitly expressed from the informants on different forms of celebration. Despite the differences, Mazu belief is representative in placemaking and for regional connections. Not all four cities agree on the current status as embedded in tourism development. However, the key informants show a welcoming manner to the outsiders in participating and experiencing their practices.Research limitations/implicationsThe research context of Mazu belief and customs can be extended to more urban cities, which practice this culture.Practical implicationsDifferent countries and regions that share the same belief can understand distinct social representations from one another. Practical collaborations can be expanded for cultural exchanges, especially the exploration of the role of religion played in boosting urban tourism development.Social implicationsMazu belief and customs is a unique cultural asset in enhancing the social representations of Chinese expatriates overseas. Its cultural practices successfully enhance the cultural exchange and social cohesion among religious communities locally and internationally.Originality/valueUsing a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)-inscribed ICH item with a large audience worldwide, this study supplements the theory of social representations in exploring the intangible cultural assets and highlights the role of ICH in urban tourism and regional and city planning.

Regional analysis of tourism resources

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the contribution of local wisdom as a halal tourism attraction. This research is carried out with a qualitative research framework. Primary research data is collected by qualitative research methods, namely through observation, interviews, and documentation. Secondary data is obtained through the assessment of articles, books, research reports, documents, and other sources that are valid and support the theme of the research. Observations are carried out in the region and tourist attractions, while interviews are conducted to the Tourism Office and the managers of tourist attractions, communities, and tourists. The collected data is analyzed descriptively and qualitatively. The results of this study show that Pekalongan City has the prospect of becoming a halal tourism destination because it has fulfilled the components of halal tourism (attractions, access, amenities, communication, environment, supporting facilities, and celebration). On the other hand, the attractions and attractions owned by Pekalongan City are interesting and diverse. Pekalongan City has distinctive and unique local wisdom and can be an object and attraction of regional tourism. In addition, it is also supported by community security and creativity activities that support local wisdom as a tourism attraction. Culture, Islamic traditions, and local wisdom in Pekalongan City have not been maximally packaged into tourist attractions. The implication of this study is that the packaging of local wisdom into a tourist attraction will contribute to the development of regional tourism. The abandonment of local wisdom as a regional tourism attraction will negate Indonesia which is rich in cultural diversity as a differentiator with other countries in the field of halal tourism.

The Old City area, which is a part of Jakarta City has become the symbol of Batavia's historical greatness. Batavia is also known as the Queen of The East due to its beauty (Brill, 1993). From its long historical record and the abundant number of historical heritages, Old City area revitalization efforts have become a priority in DKI Jakarta Governor’s work programs. Based on Law Number 26 Year 2007 regarding Landscapes, Jakarta should own 30% of green open spaces in its administrative area. However, Jakarta only provides 10% of green open (Hariyawan et al., n.d.). The small amount can also be seen in the Old City area with a small portion of green open space or public area. The Old City area of Jakarta is now filled with illegal dwellings and abandoned buildings which are often used by migrant communities as their residences. This situation creates irregularity and discomfort for the people. Old City area is a cultural heritage area, which is often utilized as a gathering area for artists with routine activities such as photographers, mural artists, and theatrical actors. However, these communities often face difficulties due to limited facilities in the area. Based on the policy analysis of historical cultural heritage preservation of the Old City area in Jakarta, we can conclude that revitalization efforts aim to provide public open spaces by optimizing their functions, and comforts, while also bringing back the historical heritage atmosphere. The goal of this design is to shape interaction space patterns that are in accordance with the local art communities so that they can have their own working spaces. The method utilized in this research was a qualitative descriptive and case study methods, which were implemented in the Old City area. The revitalization of the Old City area in Jakarta has the potential to improve it as urban tourism and art education, which is also integrated with green open space that functions as social space. The involvement of communities in the area is also important in assisting the organizing, driving, and supervising efforts of public areas.

PurposeThis paper aims to discuss tourism development, tourism policy development and its challenges in Rotterdam through the lens of “new urban tourism”, reviewing the relevance of the concept.Design/methodology/approachThis paper comprises a review of the concept of new urban tourism and a case study of Rotterdam. Methods used include a literature review and social media search, an analysis of policy documents and street interviews.FindingsTourism in Rotterdam has grown rapidly, exhibiting aspects of new urban tourism such as encounters with the ordinary and everydayness, authenticity and de-differentiation. Details about tourism motives and nature of tourism are unknown. It is concluded that the concept of new urban tourism is a rather elusive and difficult notion to apply to the case of Rotterdam.Research limitations/implicationsThis research is a case study of one city.Practical implicationsThis paper suggests that different tourism information and statistics are needed for policymaking and for understanding urban tourism.Originality/valueThe Rotterdam case raises new questions about new urban tourism, as the concept appears to be rather indefinable.

Intangible cultural heritage is the precious wealth of the human civilization, plays a vital role on blood relation of inheriting national culture. Also is the main content in the process of the tourism experience. Experiential tourism development is the only road of intangible cultural heritage protection. Deal with the relationship between protection and development, intangible cultural heritage protection and tourism development can be implemented benign interaction. In this paper, taking Qinhuangdao as an Example, in combination with the current of the tourism development of intangible Cultural Heritage, to discuss how to realize intangible cultural heritage protection in a way of experiential Tourism development Intangible cultural heritage is an important carrier for the testimony of our history and the Chinese culture, contains the unique Chinese spiritual values, ways of thinking, imagination and cultural awareness, which reflect the vitality and creativity of the Chinese nation. Under the impact of this global trend that the cultural tourism is becoming the demanding core of tourism, the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, as well as the research on the combination of intangible cultural heritage and tourism are particularly urgent. Particularly tourists involved in the process of tourism activate the traditional culture which has gradually disappeared, Qinhuangdao has a unique intangible cultural heritage, if the rich intangible cultural heritage resources combined with tourism development, and focus on experiential tourism development, find a way of benign interaction in the protection and development, at the same time to promote regional economic development, and also realize the civilization of intangible cultural heritage, so as to achieve an important role of historic preservation Conservation status of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Qinhuangdao Qinhuangdao has a long history with deep culture, and process abundant intangible cultural heritage. Qinhuangdao municipal government issued the Regulations to strengthen the protection work of intangible cultural heritage for the city at 2007, Qinhuangdao City Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Work Leading Group was set up, intangible cultural heritage protection institutions has been basically established in the three districts and four counties. At 2009, Qinhuangdao launched a citywide general survey of intangible cultural heritage, and carried out a systematic and comprehensive statistics for intangible projects in Qinhuangdao. In which, five projects are listed as the national intangible cultural heritage, these are Changli ToYongko, Changli folk songs, Funing wind and drum music, the fairy tales of Meng Jiang Nu, Changli shadow. Jieshishan legends and stories, Funing Taiping drums, Funing Tai Huang Gang, Lulong Boyi S 16 provincial project representative inheritors; 32 municipal intangible projects representative inheritors. Recently, Qinhuangdao City Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center also specially developed Interim Measures of assessment for Qinhuangdao intangible cultural heritage declare, protection work management system for Qinhuangdao intangible cultural heritage the protection for the provincial, municipal intangible and other endangered projects will also be strengthen, the loss of the project to further strengthen the protection. Intangible projects collection and exhibition hall of Qinhuangdao City is established , to secure those objects and resources with historical value, artistic value, research value and preserve value to be truly preserved and displayed, and gradually create a good atmosphere for intangible cultural heritage protection and the corresponding travel development. The relationship between intangible cultural heritage protection and experiential tourism

Winter sports tourism to urban destinations: Identifying potential and comparing motivational differences across skier groups

To improve the personalized service of cultural tourism, anticipatory calculation has become an essential technology in the content design of intelligence navigation system. Culture tourism, as a form of leisure activity, is being favored by an increasing number of people, which calls for further improvements in the cultural consumption experience. An important component of cultural tourism is for tourists to experience intangible cultural heritage projects with local characteristics. However, from the perspective of user needs and the content adaptive system, there are few suitable intelligent navigation and user demand anticipatory systems for intangible cultural heritage content. Purple clay culture is one of the first batches of national intangible cultural heritage protection projects in China. Therefore, taking purple clay culture exhibition as an example, this paper attempts to analyze the personalized information demand of tourism consumption experience in intangible cultural heritage communication activities with affective computing and meaning-driven innovative design method, by taking the content design in the navigation system as the research object. This paper uses the theory of planned behavior to calculate the relationship between tourists’ attitude, experience behavior, and display information demand. The findings indicate two issues. First, tourists’ demand for the entertainment and leisure attributes of intangible cultural heritage is greater than the demand for educational function attributes. Second, the meaning elements of information can change tourists’ beliefs in intangible cultural heritage and affect their attitude and behavior toward such heritage. According to the research results, strengthening the meaning elements of specific group information can improve people’s cultural identity and tourism satisfaction. The research results provide the basis for the content design direction of future museum intelligent navigation systems.

The objectives of this study are (i) to explore the History, Development, and Current Situation of Nanyang Dushan Jade and (ii) to investigate the Literacy Education and Local Wisdom of Nanyang Dushan Jade Carving from the perspective of Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection. This research is a qualitative study that mainly uses the concepts of Literacy Education and Local Wisdom. It adopts two data collection methods, literature research, and field research, and is presented in the form of Descriptive Analysis. The research results show that Dushan Jade is a rare Jade mineral resource in Nanyang, China, with a long history. With the development of society, the improvement of the audience’s cognitive level, and the continuous inheritance and innovation of Jade Carving Techniques, a rich and colorful Nanyang Jade Culture and Local Wisdom have been derived. Under the demand for Contemporary Aesthetics, Nanyang Dushan Jade has been further developed regarding production Technology, Product Types, and Literacy Education. This study explores the Local Wisdom and Literacy Education Model, Principles, and Strategies of Nanyang Dushan Jade in its historical development from the Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection perspective. This is of great value in enriching theoretical research on Literacy Education and Promoting the Protection, Inheritance, Innovation, and Development of China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Rural arts events (triennials/festivals) are mainly aimed at local and regional revitalization. This exhibition-driven tourism (unlike traditional festivals, conferences, and exhibitions) has existed for more than 20 years in Japan. The curators of exhibition-driven tourism hope that these events can promote the economy and stop population decline as a result of the aging population. Therefore, this paper attempts to evaluate the effects of urban and rural arts event tourism in local and neighborhood areas in Niigata, Japan from the perspective of SDG 8.9. The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial and Water and Land Niigata Art Festival were chosen as case studies. Panel data (1997–2019) concerning tourists, income, and population in Niigata were evaluated using multiple empirical methods with descriptive correlation statistics (simple linear regression (SLR) and one-way ANOVA) and spatial analysis (Moran’s I). Through multiple-method analysis, the positive impacts of urban and rural arts event tourism in local and neighborhood areas in relation to Sustainable Development Goal 8.9 were evaluated. The findings presented herein have meaningful implications for tourism academia and the industry in general.

In the modern world, tourism, as an industry of interconnected sectors, influences the development of specific sectors of the economy and performs social and cultural functions. The article presents the author’s position, based on summaries of existing approaches and considering the paradigms of urbanization theory, that urban spaces today serve as a unifying sphere for various types of tourism, which are viewed as structural components of urban tourism. Based on the research fi ndings, the author provides a unique interpretation of the concepts ‘urban tourism’ and ‘urban tourism services market’, characterizing the urban tourism services market of Novosibirsk by highlighting various types of tourism resources – cultural-historical, architectural, infrastructural, etc.; the necessity for theoretical exploration of specific aspects of the urban tourism services market is argued. In particular, the possibility and necessity of implementing a conceptual economic model for assessing the current state and forecasting the development of the urban tourism services market based on the identification of basic factors of its functioning – demand potential and supply potential – are justified. The role of investment policy in the development of the urban tourism services market and the possibility of using cluster tools to activate demand and stimulate the sale of urban tourism services in the metropolis are outlined.

The growing attention on urban tourism was very widespread. There are two angles to study urban tourism: supply-side and demand-side. And the supply-side of the tourism remains very important. The RBD (Recreation Business District) is a useful framework to understand the components of urban tourism and how they fit together. The paper begins with a review on the RBD and the spatial structure of tourism in urban areas and then attempts to develop a more general understanding of the spatial structure evolution of RBDs in a tourist-historic city—Suzhou. The spatial structures and functions of the RBDs in Suzhou are examined, based on field observations, interviews with city officials and industry leaders, and a review of available documents. The urban tourism of Suzhou has developed in a range of contexts, that various types of RBDs have emerged as a result of different urban development strategies. The spatial structure has evolved from the past "Single-cored Structure" to "Double-cored Structure" at present, and then to "Chain Structure" in the future. The spatial form and evolution of RBD in Suzhou are closely relative with its urban spatial expansion. Urban area dispersal is the prerequisite of the emergence of the RBD. Planning and constructing the RBD becomes a new impetus to urban growth or renewal. Finally, a number of strategies for planning and developing the RBD in Suzhou are suggested. The different RBDs should adopt different strategies. Intensification can be the possible strategy for the RBDs in the ancient city. Accreting with the urban theme park or engrafting on the Jinji Lake is suggested respectively for the RBD in the Suzhou New District and the Suzhou Industrial Park.

Introduction: Yunnan spinning tops, especially Jizong, Jinggu, and Shuangbai tops, are significant origins and inheritors of Chinese spinning tops. Carved from hardwood, they exhibit diverse shapes and play styles, reflecting local cultural identity and ethnic minorities' emotional memories. However, globalization, tourism, and commercialization have led to the loss of their original connotation and national characteristics, impacting local culture and wisdom.Methods: Adopting a qualitative research approach with semiotics and knowledge management theory, this study explores Yunnan spinning tops' origin, local wisdom, protection, and knowledge management. Surveys, interviews, and observations collected information on origins, production processes, ceremonial applications, and technical characteristics.Results: Yunnan tops are tools for fitness, entertainment, and the crystallization of local wisdom and skills. They integrate traditional woodworking crafts, reflecting craftsmen's pursuit of beauty. Tops are also linked to local beliefs and celebrations, becoming essential parts of festivals or rituals. During ethnic minority celebrations, top competitions and performances express yearning for a better life and respect for ancestors.Conclusion: Protecting Yunnan spinning tops' local wisdom through knowledge management is crucial. Their unique charm as intangible cultural heritage is demonstrated, and systematic protection strategies are proposed. These strategies aid in preserving and transmitting traditional skills and cultural values, enabling sustainable development in modern society. Comprehensive knowledge acquisition, organization, storage, sharing, application, and innovation promote living inheritance and innovative development, enhancing national cultural confidence and influence, and providing references for other intangible cultural heritage protection

ABSTRACTIn the international literature on urban tourism most research concentrates on cities and tourists from the global North. The patterns of urban tourism development unfolding in emerging destinations of the global South exhibit differences to the well‐documented experiences of cities in North America or Western Europe. One factor is the influence of regional tourists. It is evident South Africa's tourism economy is dominated by African tourists. Likewise, the urban tourism economy of Johannesburg is distinguished by regional tourists. This paper examines the role of ‘Southern’ tourists in urban tourism and of policy responses by Johannesburg authorities to promote shopping tourism as an element of local economic development planning.