Download - Heritage management - 07. authenticity
Concepts and As-is analysis
Critical analysis
Proposal
1. The Concept of Heritage
2. Stakeholders
3. Copyleft and Wikipedia
4. Interpretations and Services
5. Target Groups
6. Implications of Heritage
7. Authenticity
8. Structure of a Proposal
9. Strengths / Weaknesses
10. Threats / Opportunities
Map a territory
Identify Heritage/Stakeholders
Identify Licenses/Sources
Identify Services
Analyze Target groups involved
Analyse Message(s) promoted
Identify Existing Gaps
Show Concept/Message/Target
Produce a SWOT
Describe Services
Lessons Assignment Competence
Iolanda Pensa, Heritage Management, Università di Bergamo, [email protected] - http://iopensa.it
how authentic a representation of the past can be
Source: Timothy & Boyd, Heritage Tourism, 2003, p. 237
visitor satisfaction
Source: Timothy & Boyd, Heritage Tourism, 2003, p. 239
The “local community”
Authenticity
Source: Timothy & Boyd, Heritage Tourism, 2003, pp. 240-254
The search for authenticity1. Staged authenticity and commodified heritage2. Distorted pasts3. Relative authenticity 4. Ethnic intruders5. Sanitised and idealized pasts6. The unknown past
Authenticity
Source: Timothy & Boyd, Heritage Tourism, 2003, p. 238-
Typology of authenticity (Bruner 1994)1. Authentic reproduction2. Replication historically accurate3. Original instead of copied4. Authority of legal recognition
Authenticity
Source: Timothy & Boyd, Heritage Tourism, 2003, p. 241
Typology of authenticity - dynamic (Cohen 1979)1. Truly authentic experiences (objectively real and accepted by the tourists as real)2. Staged authenticity (staged or made up for the tourists but the tourists are unable
to distinguish this from reality) - covert tourist space3. Denial of authenticity: the scene is presented as genuine but the tourists question
its authenticity.4. Contrived authenticity. Overly inauthentic and preened as such by the tourist
establishment and perceived as such by the tourist - overt tourist space.
Authenticity
Source: Timothy & Boyd, Heritage Tourism, 2003, p. 242-
1. Authentic people in authentic environments2. Authentic people in inauthentic environments3. Inauthentic people in inauthentic environments4. Inauthentic people in authentic environments
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