Mining Heritage and Tourism : A Global Synthesis (Hardcover)

Section 1: Introduction  1. What Happens When Mining Leaves?  Section 2: Interpreting Mining Heritage  2. The Making of Two Mining Museums: Bowes and Beamish, North East England  3. Chinese Mining Heritage and Tourism in the Goldfields of the Pacific Rim  4. Pilgrimage in Heritage Tourism: Finding Meaning and Identity in the Industrial Past  5. Branding Beaconsfield: The Great Escape Puts Small Tasmanian Town on the Tourist Map  Section 3: Transforming Mines into Heritage Attractions  6. Mining the Museum: A Rich Vein for Dissent  7. Transforming Working Mines into Tourist Attractions: Conceptual and Practical Considerations  8. Developing a Heritage Tourism Attraction in a Working Salt Mine: The Kansas Underground Salt Museum  9. Interpreting the Environmental Impacts of the Gold Rushes at the Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park  10. Sustaining the Benefits of Heritage Mining for Site, City and Region: Exploring the Success of Sovereign Hill Outdoor Museum  Section 4: Traditional Mining Attraction Destinations  11. Flogging a Dead Horse or Creating Cultural Capacity? The Development and Impact of Mines as Alternative Tourist Destinations: A Case Study of South Wales, UK  12. The Benefits and Challenges of Implementing Tourism in Mining Communities Attractions  13. Geotourism Sites Development in Slovakia Geza  14. Mining Tourism in the Spanish Province of Huelva: The Case of the Mining Park of Riotinto  Section 5: Globalization and the Future of Mining Attraction Destinations  15. Planning For the Future: Tourism Options for an Open Pit Mine, Vietnam  16. Mining Tourism in Ouro Preto (Brazil): Opportunities and Challenges  17. Mining Heritage, Local Development and Identity: The Case of Sardinia Giovanni Sistu  18. Developing Geological Tourism in the Bay of Fundy Region  19. From Mining Boom Towns to Tourist Haunts: Ghost towns and Mining Heritage  Section 6: Lessons Learned  20. Lessons in Transforming Mines into Tourism Attractions