“…Law, 1993;Van der Berg et al, 1995;Page and Hall, 2003;Wober, 2002). Much of this work highlights the fact that increased interest in urban tourism is underpinned by escalating demand by tourists for urban historic sights and heritage cities, as well as by concerted efforts by policy makers to focus on the role of tourism in revitalising urban areas and their economies (Rogerson and Visser, 2005;Van der Merwe and Patel, 2005). Recently the investigatory gaze has been expanded to include research focusing on urban tourism in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, as well as China and Taiwan (Chang, 1999(Chang, , 2000McKercher et al, 2004McKercher et al, , 2005.…”