An Analysis of Cultural Tourism, Museums, and Tourist Demand Dynamics

This report examines the multifaceted role of museums and cultural attractions within the tourism industry. It begins by defining cultural and heritage tourism, highlighting the significance of historical sites and museums in attracting visitors. The report analyzes current tourist demand, emphasizing the changing behaviors and motivations of modern travelers, and the importance of information technology in the industry. It explores the benefits of cultural tourism, including its impact on economic conditions and the preservation of heritage. The report also discusses the role of cultural attractions and museums in representing historical identity and preserving cultural heritage, including the ethical considerations for tourism operators. The conclusion summarizes the importance of culture, heritage, and museums in attracting tourists and supporting economic growth, with references to relevant academic sources.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Current tourist demand................................................................................................................4
The cultural tourism.....................................................................................................................4
The role of culture attraction.......................................................................................................5
The Role of Museum...................................................................................................................6
Importance of Cultural attraction and Museum...........................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Heritage or culture tourism can be defined as travel direction towards great experience the
arts, activities, museum that are truly represent the stories. Nowadays, it will take more attention
towards past decade. Developing nations need specific support from other international
community in term of safeguarding their precious heritage, equipment’s. It is one of important
part of tourism industry in term of powerful economic growth and development. The
documentation will describe about the role of museums and cultural attractions, also identifying
the significance within tourism industry.
MAIN BODY
Overview
As cultural or heritage tourism is basically depending on the history, events of past has
abundant evidence where how past travels had been changing the entire pages of century. In
order to affect on the past life. Much of time passed on form age to age occasionally in the
different forms such as myth and fable (ShawHong, 2020). The significance of tourism
professional to obtain the cultural heritage and ancient museum, also providing the accurate
information about the past incidents to other tourist. In this way, different cultural heritage,
museum are considered as important part of tourism industry. Tourism professional will continue
to find out the real stories on the basis of evidence.
Furthermore, Tourism industries are solely dependent on the potential visitors and consider
as main driver within industry. Sometimes, it affecting on the tourism due to the need and
demand of individuals. In this way, it is an essential part for understanding the issue or problem
of heritage cultural tourism by multiple group of people. To overcome the problem within
various aspects, which are related to the cultural and museum tourism in which require the better
management system. The tourist typology is boosting the entire development of tourism market
and its important part is cultural heritage, museum. These are remain prime attraction for visitors
to enjoy their holidays.
In context of tourism, Cultural is based on the creative artistic activities, goods and
services produced by it. This will help for preservation of human heritage. Afterwards, it also
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impact on the economy and different productive activities that is mainly originate or contributing
to the particular culture.
Museum and cultural attraction have been evolving the way in which reflect the growing
and interest of population. It is the process for changing the view point towards Museums and
other cultural of different people. For Example- Emergence of term “Museums” that allow for
increasing opportunities to collect, store, preserve, display and demonstrate their culture from
own view point.
Current tourist demand
It has been rapidly changing the demand of visitor towards cultural, heritage attraction
and different art museums. In order to upgrade the standards of living, which become main cause
of increases fluctuation of tourist spending.
Atkinson Yates and Brooke (2019) Modern tourist’s behaviour has completely changed
towards the tourism industry. Nowadays, it is increasing the travel operations that could be from
demand and supply side. It can be happened due to ease of accessing data through infrastructure
development and internet. Thus, increasing the importance of information technology in tourism
industry. The primary factor is considered both supply and demand of industry. They can assume
personal need of tourism which always influencing the comparison between old masses of
tourism. Sometimes, Tourism industry is mostly depending on the economic mass and
production to consume large amount of mass, standardized holiday packages.
To attract the cultural tourists, museums that must understand their motivation towards
travel. It is not just for consideration of cultural item but also able to show positive response
towards culture. In reality, there are various degree of customer motivation for culture tourism.
The phenomenon of motivation that is always adopted by tourists in term of culture. In this way,
it involved the individual who travel from one place to another, identifying the various cultural
festivals, Museums. This will help for increasing the own curiosity among individuals towards
traditional culture, historical incident.
The cultural tourism
The cultural tourism is based on the subset of tourism that can define as travels
concentrating towards the experience of arts, traditional as well as contemporary culture.
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Sometimes, it may include the visual, museums, heritage, design, architecture and broadcasting.
The benefit of cultural tourism is to improve the current economic condition. it is also useful for
differentiating the facts, figure of travellers, who are participating in the different cultural
activities. Large number of visitors are spending the money and enjoy their holidays. In this way,
it should be required for tourism to make strategic plan for providing the better facilities and
services.
Radomskaya (2020) The cultural tourism is based on the complicated conception. It
consists of different elements such as culture + tourism. According to WTO (world tourism
organization) as amended in 1993, it has accepted however and applied by government. This
type of tourism organization include different activities of individual person at the time of travel
and also stay in place outside of residence, usual place.
Generally, cultural designates the social field in term of production and process through
which individual make sense of themselves and living in particular standards. Another way,
Culture is a process that become useful for transformed through tourism into different culture as
product. Sometimes, tourism culture may be defined the event and relations formed by interest
travels for purpose of understanding about historical places, events. Sometimes, it can be
reviewed to increase the interaction between multiple cultures. It make sure that meet the criteria
on similar platform through visiting cultural, resources, historical preserved places, museums.
These are included as unique value from point of tradition.
The role of culture attraction
Carbone, Oosterbeek and Ferreira (2020) The cultural and heritage management work as
equivalent activities performed by tourism industry. Generally, it is mainly focused on the
representing the common interest between cultural attraction in term of preservation. As a result,
it has gained more opportunity to provide the better attraction of visitors. Even through
managing resources, ethical environment in proper manner. Occasionally, it has been considered
the ethical principles by tourism operator who exploring the local culture attraction for their
personal gains.
Many visitors are believed that heritage is linked to the past which may symbolizes some
sort of gift to be passed down to future generations. Sometimes, it should be considered the
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different elements within past society as per requirement. In some situation, there are various
incidents all cannot link with cultural aspects. It make use selective sort of cultural attraction and
also assumed the value in both personal as well as professional manner.
The Role of Museum
Museum audience have a strong link to tourism, various tourists are considering a part of
individuals. Even a large part of total number of visitors. The diversity of heritage culture and
museum that can attract more tourists towards attractive destination (Grincheva, 2020). At
certain level, there are different tourism activities that contain some element of culture, ranging
from visit from particular cultural sites such as museums and art galleries.
Moreover, the museum is largely representing as high culture of past decade whereas
many new meaning of heritage within tourism. Afterwards, it also covered both intangible as
well as tangible aspects of culture. The general mandate of museum is to educate the different
visitors about the natural heritage, history and culture. Museum is the best place to preserve the
different elements for future generations. In this way, it is commonly understood the presence of
museum that is mainly indicate as something relevant and valuable for public. Furthermore,
discussion has been described the main role of museums that should be protected culture heritage
and also attract more tourists.
Importance of Cultural attraction and Museum
Grincheva (2020) The significance of Museum and cultural attraction are highly depending
on the attitude, value of past decade. In order to differentiate the communities, individuals and
groups. Usually, the importance of cultural and museum are representing the identity of people,
society, community. It can lead to create the sense of belonging, social conscience which drive to
preservation of heritage culture.
Museums are becoming great British success story. It plays important role in the success
of UK tourism that always attracting million of domestic and international visitors. Moreover, it
shows as nation history and culture among large audience. Different museums, cultural
attractions are providing the brief idea about the golden period of sustained investment. In order
to improve the visitor attraction towards historical places, past incident.
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On the other hand, cultural and heritage are considered as attraction, which are definitely
represent the traditions, dance, historical monuments. These are creating more opportunities to
find out the different materials. It can be identified the past incident that are basically happened.
In UK, Local communities to know the importance of cultural attraction so that they always tried
to provide information about the cultural or heritage. Sometimes, it also make an effective
strategic plan to protect or secure in proper manner.
For Example- In European countries, it has been focused on the preserved the more and
more historical buildings, museums. The advent of art museums during 19th centuries that was
assumed the most physical manifestation of bourgeois idea in term of culture. Large number of
museums are organised to demonstrate the progress of industrial development. This was
represented as object to provide the art, culture of traditions (Lee, Jung and Chung, 2020). At
early stage, it was supposed to underline faith in the progress and also contrast to the growth of
tourism industry in 1980.
Lee, Jung and Chung (2020) Taking the project as Museum which look at Europe for
placing different objects, displays become important cultural significance. This always help for
increasing the importance across the global world. These are not only providing the heritage but
argument for beauty and their certainty. In order to attract more and more travellers. The tourism
industry should be realised as essential precondition of integration and become as instrument of
creating the identity of nation.
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it has summarized about the importance of culture, heritage and
museum within tourism industry. These are considered as main factor that always support for
increasing opportunities and gain more attention of modern tourist.
In this report, it has been explaining the essential value of historical identity of nation, who
has shared with background, tradition to future generation. As per analysis, it has been described
about the role of museums and cultural attractions for tourism. These are attracted more and
more audience, who are showing interest towards historical places, past incident. Therefore,
many tourism companies are adopting the traditional culture to provide accurate information
about the heritage.
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