Heritage Tourism and Education
ATLAS Special Interest Group
Heritage Tourism and Education
The coordinators for this SIG are:
Chin-Ee Ong – Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM), China
Adrian Guachalla – London Metropolitan University, UK
This SIG (active since 2017) is interested in any topic concerning the education and training in heritage and tourism. Listed below are illustrative of our interests but the list is not exhaustive:
- Production and consumption of heritage, tourism and heritage tourism knowledge
- Social justice, neo-liberalism, power-knowledge, politics of representation in education content
- ‘Buzzwords’ and tourism education: sustainability, resilience, pro-poor, community-based…
- Quality assurance and control, effective communication, pedagogic techniques, technologies and paradigms in academic and professional tourism and heritage education
- Tourism and education programmes in degree granting institutions
- Site manager training for UNESCO World Heritage sites
- Tour(ist) guide and heritage interpreter training
- Disciplinary concerns and explorations: Excavating Anthropology, Architecture and Geography and other academic disciplines from professional and academic tourism and leisure courses (eg. ‘the Geography in Tour Guiding’)
- The role of tourism schools in their communities
If you want to contact the SIG coordinator, please fill in the form HERE
If you want to join this SIG, please fill in the form HERE
Annual review of activities 2024
What were the activities last year?
A special panel on Heritage, Health and Tourism was delivered at the ATLAS Annual Conference 2023 in Bad Gleichenberg, Austria between 10 to 13 October 2023. A number of heritage-related papers were presented and students engaged and attendees engaged very well.
What are the plans for the next year(s)?
The themed panel at ATLAS Annual Conference at Breda is being organised, due to take place in June 2024. The Subject interest Group will also seek to arrange webinars with heritage tourism students internationally across its global network which will result in further contributions to special interest conferences. Other plans include using the SIG branding for a Cultural Mapping project of a historic town and using that to give visibility to our SIG in Macao and neighbouring Chinese cities. As a result, more heritage related educational and research events and projects can be undertaken.