Cultural Routes and religious heritage

The multiple dynamics of a crossed category in a tourism context

Bibliographic Data

ID19038671
AuthorsIsabelle Brianso (corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume20
Publication date2021-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVia Tourism Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2259-924X • E-ISSN: 2259-924X
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/viatourism.7844
OpenAlexW4200504915
LanguageEN
References cited12

Since 1987, geographical traces (route, trail, via/way) of the Middle Ages have been transformed into Cultural Routes certified by the Council of Europe. These routes were once frequented by European travellers and pilgrims, but now attract a variety of walkers with diverse profiles (local inhabitants, pilgrim-walkers, tourist-ramblers) forming multiple communities with social, religious and heritage values. These communities of stakeholders operate in a tourism context via network-based dynamics, using participatory, socio-technical and digital tools to build their cultural, visual and European identity. They therefore play a central role in the recognition of this cultural object as a recent heritage category at the disciplinary crossroads of cultural geography, landscape and communication processes. This article examines a corpus of certified Cultural Routes with religious values using a qualitative methodology to classify them (typological approach) and analyse them (systemic approach)

Archaeology · Citizen journalism · Cultural heritage · Cultural heritage management · Geography · Pilgrim · Political science · Religious Tourism · Sociology · Tourism · Anthropology · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Law · Religious Tourism and Spaces

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