Dr Hyung Yu Park

Associate Professor in Tourism

Hyung Yu Park

  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Marketing, Enterprise & Tourism

  • Location London

Research activities

Heritage tourism, social memory and identity

Individual narratives of heritage tourism experiences

Sustainable heritage tourism development

The politics of heritage tourism

Heritage tourism in negotiation and peace-building

Difficult heritage for tourism

Cultural heritage and climate change

Creative industries and cultural heritage in urban tourism

Tourism gentrification and neighbourhood identities

Ethnography in tourism

Visual representations of places in tourism


Current Teaching

TOU1014 Tourism, Communities and Social Justice

TOU3923 Heritage, Tourism and Digital Media

TOU4230 International Tourism in the 21st Century

MKT4066 Dissertation


Biography

I have contributed to establishing heritage tourism as a significant interdisciplinary research area, leading the construction of new knowledge through publishing in top journals and writing a textbook- Heritage Tourism by Routledge (2014), which has been adopted worldwide as a core text for heritage and tourism programmes. My research interest includes heritage tourism, identity and social memory, sustainable heritage tourism, heritage and peacebuilding, heritage and wellbeing, the role of heritage and arts in climate change discussions, urban heritage and critical tourism pedagogy. I focus on the potential of heritage tourism as a driver for reconciliation and resilience through individual meaning-making by the creation of narratives and experiences. My research is published; Annals of Tourism Research- 3 sole-authored papers, Tourism Management, Current Issues in Tourism and Academy of Management Learning & Education.

External activities

  • External examiner, Uganda, 2023
  • External examiner, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2022
  • External examiner, UK, 2012

    • Publications

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