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Art, as a vast subdivision of culture, is composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines. It encompasses visual/plastic arts (traditional fine, modern fine, modern visual, applied, decorative), literature arts, performing arts (music, theatre, film, dance), and culinary arts. “Art, in its many forms, has long played an important role in people’s imagination, experience, and remembrance of places, cultures and travels as well as in their motivation to travel. Travel and tourism, on the other hand, have also inspired numerous artists and featured in many artworks” (Rakić and Lester 2016 : cover).
The relationship between art and tourism has been close since ancient times. The two words have appeared in several combinations such as “arts tourists,” “artists-tourists” (artists as tourists), “tourists as an inspiration for artists,” and “tourist art.” To the world of tourism, it brings “style, culture, beauty, and a sense of continuity of living” (Zeppel and Hall, in Smith 2009 : 121)....
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Buczkowska-Gołąbek, K., Banaszkiewicz, M. (2022). Art and Tourism. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_236-4
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