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Intangibility refers to the lack of palpable or tactile property making it difficult to assess service quality. [1] [2] [3] According to Zeithaml et al. (1985, p. 33), “Because services are performances, rather than objects, they cannot be seen, felt, tasted, or touched in the same manner in which goods can be sensed.” [4] As a result, intangibility has historically been seen as the most ...
Heritage tourism. Heritage tourism is a form of tourism that revolves around a region's tangible and intangible cultural heritage. This can involve people, objects, and places associated with the past. [ 1] Cultural Heritage tourism focuses on the human element of these sites. [ 2]
An intangible cultural heritage ( ICH) is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill considered by UNESCO to be part of a place's cultural heritage. Buildings, historic places, monuments, and artifacts are cultural property. Intangible heritage consists of nonphysical intellectual wealth, such as folklore, customs, beliefs ...
Tourists at the Temple of Apollo, Delphi, Greece. Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. [1] UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more ...
Heritage commodification is the process by which cultural themes and expressions come to be evaluated primarily in terms of their exchange value, specifically within the context of cultural tourism. [1] These cultural expressions and aspects of heritage become "cultural goods," transformed into commodities to be bought, sold and profited from ...
Cultural tourism is a type of tourism in which the visitor's essential motivation is to learn, discover, experience and consume the cultural attractions and products offered by a tourist destination. These attractions and products relate to the intellectual, spiritual, and emotional features of a society that encompasses arts and architecture ...
Christians come to the Jordan river to baptise. Picture taken in Yardenit, Israel. Religious tourism, spiritual tourism, sacred tourism, or faith tourism, [ 1] is a type of tourism with two main subtypes: pilgrimage, meaning travel for religious or spiritual purposes, and the viewing of religious monuments and artefacts, a branch of sightseeing.
Greece is likely to hit a new record for tourism in 2024, surpassing the 33 million tourists in 2023. Inbound travelers rose 20% in the January-May period, according to the Bank of Greece, and ...