Book titele: Cultural Heritage Tourism and Circular Economy: Enhancing Identity, Visibility and Sustainability, XXXIII, 476 pp.
Publisher: Springer Nature
Year: 2026
ISBN 978-3-032-14081-4
IRMO researcher Daniela Angelina Jelinčić published a new book chapter entitled Circular Cultural Tourism: Concept and Benefits Through Theory and Practice. The chapter is part of a larger publishing project that resulted in the book Cultural Heritage Tourism and Circular Economy: Enhancing Identity, Visibility and Sustainability, published by Springer Nature. The chapter deals with the application of the theme of the circular economy in all phases of the cultural-tourism product management, entailing a broader concept of using a human-centered approach, improving lesser-known cultural and natural resources, improving human capital and human rights, reducing tourist pressure, reducing the consumption of waste and natural resources by encouraging clean energy, green traffic, recycling and reuse, and improving local food and craft production (Be.CULTOUR. https://becultour.eu/). At the same time, it empowers local communities to take advantage of sustainable tourism. In this way, the chapter reveals aspects of the circular economy that are applied in cultural tourism and investigates how tourism operators understand it. The applied methodology is desk research and case study. The results show that the principles of the circular economy can be applied in all phases of the cultural tourism product management, but it is not easy to distinguish between individual principles of the circular economy, as they often overlap. In this sense, the author concludes that the concept of the circular economy is yet another name for sustainability.
More about the book chapter: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-14082-1_8
