Around the world, visitors are drawn to visit murals painted on walls that express something about the politics, heritage and identity of the locations being visited. In some cases, murals created for political purposes become a point of interest for visitors; in others, murals have been painted to stimulate local economic development through to

Part I: Introduction1. ‘Wall-to-wall coverage': an introduction to murals tourismJonathan Skinner and Lee JolliffePart II: Heritage2. Heritage murals as tourist attractions in Ravenna, Moldavia and Istanbul: artistic treasures, cultural identities and political statementsWarwick Frost and Jennifer Laing3. From ‘sacred images’ to ‘tourist images’? The fourteenth-century frescoes of Santa Croce, FlorenceRussell Staiff 4. The walls speak. Mexican popular graphics as heritageMartín M. Checa- Artasu5. Tourism, voyeurism and the media ecologies of Tehran’s mural artsPamela KarimiPart III: Politics6. La Carbonería: an alternative transformation of public spacePlácido Muñoz Morán7. Murals as sticking plasters: improving the image of an eastern German city for visitors and residentsGareth E. Hamilton8. Difference upon the walls: hygienizing policies and the use of graffiti against pixação in São PauloPaula Larruscahim and Paul SchweizerPart IV: Identity9. A journey through public art in Douala: framing the identity of New Bell neighbourhoodMarta Pucciarelli and Lorenzo Cantoni 10. Visiting murals and healing the past of racial injustice in divided DetroitDeborah Che11. Visiting murals and grafitti art in BrazilAngela C. Flecha, Cristina Jönsson and D'Arcy Dornan12. Balancing Uruguayan identity and sustainable economic development through street artMaría de Miguel Molina, Virginia Santamarina Campos, Blanca de Miguel Molina and Eva Martínez CarazoPart V: Northern Ireland13. State intervention in re-imaging Northern Ireland’s political murals: implications for tourism and the communitiesMaria T. Simone-Charteris14. The Gaeltacht Quarter of Mural City: Irish in Falls Road muralsSiun Carden15. Extra-mural activities and trauma tourism: public and community sector re-imaging of street art in BelfastKaty Radford Part VI: Future Directions16. Murals as a tool for action researchRebecca Yeo