Heritage Type, Demographics, and Context

Abstract

Abstract This chapter compares how diverse heritage places including heritage sites, archaeological sites, museums, and art galleries impact visitors’ subjective wellbeing. Comparative analysis will identify trends in capabilities of subjective visitor wellbeing impacted by different types of heritage place, seeking to uncover how specific types of heritage places impact hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing. The chapter examines how the national context in which heritage places are situated impacts on their potential to improve visitors’ subjective wellbeing and uncovers how organizational practices and interpretative approaches applied at heritage places can impact visitors’ wellbeing. The chapter provides evidence of how visitors’ age, gender, or disability impacts heritage places’ ability to improve their subjective wellbeing. It considers if demographic patterns in the wellbeing impact of heritage places can be identified across national boundaries. It provides empirical evidence to help organizations to understand the role of heritage places nationally in improving individuals’ subjective wellbeing and considers the potential of these sites to tackle societal wellbeing inequalities related to age, gender, and disability.