SOCC26H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Adventure Travel, Creative Class, Creative City
Document Summary
Tourism destinations are turning to culture to distinguish themselves from competitors: culture has been linked to income as a means of gathering income and jobs. Serial reproduction of culture; cultural development alone is not sufficient enough to create distinct destinations: replacing of culture led developmental strategies with creative development capitalizing on creative resources. Cultural tourism seen as quality tourism which was widely sustainable and supporting local culture. Culture led development was tied to working of symbolic economy (culture provides symbols=used to create land values: culture has been lacking distinction and therefore requires a cultural brand. Culture required creativity to inject dynamism and release potential of places. Cultural industries: producers of repetitive cultural products for capitalist mass consumption. Shift from cultural industries to creative industries stems from media boom. Instrumentalization of culture as any other part of economic sector. Culture is an input to the creative sector; raw material for creative production.
