CREATING HERITAGE TOURISM THROUGH CHRONOTOPES: FOCUSING ON HIROSHIMA ELECTRIC RAILWAY IN JAPAN
Keywords:
Chronotopes, Heritage Tourism, Heritage Railways, Landscape, RealityAbstract
Heritage tourism leads to the re-evaluation and re-organisation of heritage to attract tourists. Heritage railways provide a sound development environment for heritage tourism because they have an inherent value to pass on to the next generation. This paper analyses heritage tourism, among other things, heritage railways in Hiroshima, Japan, as a case study and shows how the matrices of time and space, called chronotopes by Bakhtin, of the built environment of the place are essential to creating the reality that tourists favour. The implication of this study is as follows. First, the concept of the chronotopes offers the landscape the intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships. Second, this chronotopic thinking also indicates another perspective to previous social and business studies regarding heritage tourism. It gains an advantage over them in the created reality of landscape.
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