This document provides an overview of concepts and an as-is analysis for a heritage management proposal. It lists 10 topics to cover, including stakeholders, licenses/sources of information, target groups, and a SWOT analysis. It also lists lessons on assignment competence from Iolanda Pensa's 2017 heritage management course at Università di Bergamo. The document provides sources and summaries on the concepts of authenticity and how it relates to heritage tourism.
5. Authenticity
Source:Timothy & Boyd, Heritage Tourism, 2003, pp. 240-254
The search for authenticity
1. Staged authenticity and commodified heritage
2. Distorted pasts
3. Relative authenticity
4. Ethnic intruders
5. Sanitised and idealized pasts
6. The unknown past
6. Authenticity
Source:Timothy & Boyd, Heritage Tourism, 2003, p. 238-
Typology of authenticity (Bruner 1994)
1. Authentic reproduction
2. Replication historically accurate
3. Original instead of copied
4. Authority of legal recognition
7. Authenticity
Source:Timothy & Boyd, Heritage Tourism, 2003, p. 241
Typology of authenticity - dynamic (Cohen 1979)
1. Truly authentic experiences (objectively real and accepted by the tourists as real)
2. Staged authenticity (staged or made up for the tourists but the tourists are unable
to distinguish this from reality) - covert tourist space
3. Denial of authenticity: the scene is presented as genuine but the tourists question
its authenticity.
4. Contrived authenticity. Overly inauthentic and preened as such by the tourist
establishment and perceived as such by the tourist - overt tourist space.
8. Authenticity
Source:Timothy & Boyd, Heritage Tourism, 2003, p. 242-
1. Authentic people in authentic environments
2. Authentic people in inauthentic environments
3. Inauthentic people in inauthentic environments
4. Inauthentic people in authentic environments
25. Reconstruction of the sitting room of 221B Baker Street at The Sherlock Holmes themed public house in London. Photo by Jack1956, 2014, cc by-sa.
26. Kinshasa, Belgium PavilionVenice Biennale of Architecture 2004 (Filip de Boeck and Marie-Françoise Plissart, Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City.