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Designing and delivering inclusive heritage tours: Good practices for engaging socially excluded audiences

dc.contributor.authorMinnaert, Lynn
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-11T14:49:36Z
dc.date.available2025-07-11T14:49:36Z
dc.date.issued2025-04-23
dc.identifier.issn0867-5856
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/55963
dc.description.abstractPeople who experience social exclusion often face barriers to participation in recreation and tourism and tend to have limited engagement with culture and heritage. Yet, both sets of activities have been linked to a range of positive outcomes. This study focuses on heritage tours, a tourism product at the crossroads of culture, tourism and recreation. It examines how heritage tours can be designed and delivered in a way that promotes inclusion: removing barriers, creating a judgement-free environment, fostering inclusive oral communication, and providing an equitable experience for all participants. Addressing a gap in the tourism literature, the paper draws on audience development strategies that have been used in culture and the arts, including product-led and marketled approaches. It analyzes a case study initiative in Edinburgh, Scotland, to explore the effectiveness of its approach and evaluate whether it offers any good practices that can be replicated in other destinations or contexts.en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTuryzm/Tourism;1en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectinclusionen
dc.subjectheritageen
dc.subjectexclusionen
dc.subjecttoursen
dc.subjectcultureen
dc.titleDesigning and delivering inclusive heritage tours: Good practices for engaging socially excluded audiencesen
dc.typeArticle
dc.page.number27-38
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationMetropolitan State University of Denver (Denver, USA), School of Hospitalityen
dc.identifier.eissn2080-6922
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