Resilience, Authenticity and Digital Heritage Tourism

This book examines the authentication of authenticity in heritage tourism through a resilient smart systems approach. It discusses the emerging trends in cultural tourism and highlights their significance in negotiating authenticity in tourism experience.Authentication of authenticity is an evolving, less-researched field of inquiry in heritage tourism. This book advances research on this subject by exploring different authentication processes and scrutinizes their resilience in transformative heritage tourism. It offers a kaleidoscopic view of the manner authenticity has evolved over the last several decades by observing a broad spectrum of cultural expressions. The evolution and meaningfulness of negotiated authenticity is identified and discussed in the context of pre-, intra- and post-pandemic times. This book also focuses on the moral and existentialist authenticity as well as self-authentication and proposes a smart resilient authentication model to delicately negotiate the objective and self dimensions of authenticity in transformative times. It also focuses on how authenticity is authenticated via the role of digital platforms as mediating agents. This book offers novel perspectives on negotiated authenticity and its authentication in heritage tourism and will thus appeal to students and scholars in Heritage studies; Design and Innovation; Tourism Studies; Geography and Planning across North America, Europe and east-Asian countries.