BOOK REVIEW Greg Richards (ed): Cultural Tourism: Global and Local Perspectives The Haworth Press, Inc., New York, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7890-3116-7 Bruce A. Seaman Received: 10 July 2008 / Accepted: 16 July 2008 / Published online: 30 July 2008 Ó Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2008 This book (classified on the back cover as dealing with Hospitality, Tourism, and Food Service) is a compendium of papers resulting from a meeting in Barcelona in October 2003, jointly organized by the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS) and the Interarts Foundation. We are told that it is a product of the transnational Cultural Tourism Research Project initiated in 1991, originally funded by the European Commission, but no longer focused exclusively on Europe. Editor Greg Richards is a partner in the consulting firm Tourism Research and Marketing (TRAM) with offices in London, Amsterdam, and Barcelona (where he is based), as well as a European executive member of ATLAS, and has held various posts at four universities. In addressing the potential value of this book to a largely economics trained international audience, it is important to note that of the 24 contributors beyond the editor, all but seven have primary affiliations in Spain (12 authors), the Netherlands, or the UK, with the others linked most closely to Hungary, Portugal, South Africa, or Brazil. All but one is primarily a university-based researcher. Their primary areas of expertise represent an intriguing mix: ten in some version of ‘‘cultural’’ or ‘‘heritage’’ tourism; six in marketing; two in statistics; two in anthropology/history; and one each in accounting and ‘‘media and cultural industries.’’ The remaining two are specialists in applied economics, with Marı ´a Devesa focusing on cultural festivals and economic impact studies, and Luis Ce ´sar Herrero on museums, as well as heritage and economic development. They team with statisticians Jose ´A ´ ngel Sanz and Ana Bedate, and accountant Marı ´a Jose ´ del Barrio in the most ‘‘traditionally’’ economic of the chapters: ‘‘Economic Impact and Social Perfor- mance of Cultural Macrofestivals’’ (with a commendable conceptual introduction followed by a case study of Salamanca, the 2002 European Capital of Culture). B. A. Seaman (&) Department of Economics, Georgia State University, PO Box 3992, Atlanta, GA 30302-3992, USA e-mail: ecobas@langate.gsu.edu; bseaman@gsu.edu 123 J Cult Econ (2008) 32:231–236 DOI 10.1007/s10824-008-9069-8