International Journal of Tourism Cities: Volume 3 Issue 3

Communism in plural: legacies for cities in the era of postmodernism

Katia Iankova

Communist heritage representation gaps and disputes

Claudia Sima

The purpose of this paper is to identify and explore how different stakeholders represent communist and revolution heritage for tourism, with a case-study on Bucharest, the…

Redesigning tourism in CEE countries: the main areas of change and the communist past

Tanja Mihalic

The purpose of this paper is to provide details of the communist and socialist past to inform the debate on redesigning tourism in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries as…

The dynamics of guiding and interpreting in red tourism

Shengnan Zhao, Dallen Timothy

Despite the significance of tour guiding and interpreting in the tourism system, relevant research is lacking in both depth and breadth. Current scholarly work tends to ignore…

International tourism in North Korea: how, where and when does political ideology enter?

Yukang Wang, Anne Marie Van Broeck, Dominique Vanneste

In the recent decades, an increasing trend has been observed in the steps North Korea has taken to open up to tourism. The purpose of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding…

Attitudes towards communist heritage tourism in Bulgaria

Stanislav Ivanov, Veronika Achikgezyan

The purpose of this paper is to identify the attitudes of Bulgarians towards country’s historical monuments, communist heritage, communist heritage tourism and their willingness…

Urban tourism and urban socialist and communist heritage: beyond tragedy and farce?

Bailey Ashton Adie, Alberto Amore, Colin Michael Hall

Existing literature on state socialist and communist heritage as a form of tourist consumption predominately focuses on destination contexts, such as the former Soviet countries…

China’s red tourism: communist heritage, politics and identity in a party-state

Geoffrey Wall, Ning Ryan Zhao

The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate red tourism in China and, in doing so, shed light on the complex relationships between tourism, heritage and identity…