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"Cultural and Heritage Tourism Essentials" explores one of the world's most vital tourism resources—cultural heritage. This comprehensive guide provides a theoretical overview and practical knowledge of tourism-related issues, practices, debates, concepts, and management concerns. We cover current and emerging topics such as geopolitics, conflict, tourism solidarity, over-tourism, and climate change. Additionally, key areas like environmental change, technology, social media, heritage economics, indigenous knowledge, and co-creation experiences are developed in detail. This edition includes up-to-date data, statistics, references, case studies, metrics, and educational tools. It serves as an essential and accessible resource for undergraduate and graduate students in heritage tourism, cultural resource management, and museum management.
A revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern Indigenous peoples in present day Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories between 1860 and 1940. Liza Piper connects the history of epidemics in northern North America to persistent health disparities arising from settler colonialism.
When gold was discovered in the far northern regions of Alaska and the Yukon in the late nineteenth century, thousands of individuals headed north to strike it rich. This massive movement required a vast network of supplies and services and brought even more people north to manage and fulfill those needs. In this volume, archaeologists, historians, and ethnologists discuss their interlinking studies of the towns, trails, and mining districts that figured in the northern gold rushes, including the first sustained account of the archaeology of twentieth-century gold mining sites in Alaska or the Yukon. The authors explore various parts of this extensive settlement and supply system: coastal to...
Herschel Island Territorial park was established in 1987 as the first territorial park in the Yukon.