Contemporary Asian Artistic Expressions and Tourism – An Introduction

This introductory chapter presents and critically discusses the various themes underpinning this book. Firstly, it provides an examination of the notion of ‘contemporary art’, including an overview of the existing definitions and debates in the current literature. Secondly, this chapter discusses the nexus between tourism and contemporary art by providing an overview of the past studies conducted on cultural and heritage tourism. In this section, the various themes underpinning the different parts of the literature on art tourism (e.g. identity, authenticity, commoditisation and capitalism) are considered. Thirdly, a discussion on the relationship between tourism and Asian contemporary art is presented, which also includes a part problematising and questioning terms like ‘Asia’ and ‘Asian art’. Finally, an overview of the different chapters that constitute the backbone of this collection is offered alongside the four themes around which the book is structured

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El patrimonio cultural como opción turística

El sistema turístico obliga a tener en cuenta tanto a la sociedad local, como a los visitantes, por lo que todos los estudios deben ir dirigidos a buscar el bienestar de ambos, tratando de minimizar los impactos negativos, ya sean sociales, culturales, físicos o económicos. En cuanto al patrimonio antropológico, puede afirmarse que la única manera de comprender su realidad es acercándose a él para observarlo como producto de la sociedad en permanente estado de cambio, al mismo tiempo que se descifra la interrelación de todos sus componentes. Es necesario interpretar al ser humano en el medio en el que se ha desarrollado y sigue haciéndolo. Sólo de esta forma estaremos en capacidad de planificar una serie de acciones vinculadas al uso del patrimonio con fines turísticos, sin perjudicar el normal desarrollo de la comunidad que lo ha originado.<br>The tourist system forces us to consider as much the local society as the visitors, that is the reason for which all the studies must go directed to look for the well-being of both, trying to diminish the negative impacts, either they are social, cultural, physical or economic. As far as the anthropological patrimony, it can affirm that the only way to include/understand its reality is approaching him to observe it like product of the society in permanent state of change, at the same time that deciphers the interrelation of all its components. It is necessary to interpret to the human being in the means in which it has been developed and it continues doing it. Only of this form we will be in capacity to plan a series of tie actions to the use of the patrimony with tourist aims, without harming the normal development of the community that has originated it