Dr. Hyungyu Park is Associate Professor in Tourism at Middlesex University, UK. She has helped position heritage tourism as a significant interdisciplinary research area. She has advised on policy for bodies including Unesco and the Korean government. She has contributed to the development of new knowledge through publications in key journals (including Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Current Issues in Tourism, and Academy of Management Learning & Education) and the sole-authored Routledge monograph Heritage Tourism (2014), which now features as a core text for heritage and tourism programmes worldwide. Her research interests include heritage tourism, identity and social memory, critical tourism pedagogy, sustainable heritage tourism, and the exploration of heritage and the arts in relation to peacebuilding, wellbeing, climate change discussions and urban cultures. Park’s work focuses on heritage tourism’s potential to create narratives and experiences that help foster reconciliation and resilience, via the individual making of meaning.
Dr. Hyungyu Park
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