Abstract
This study investigates heritage tourism in historic cities regarding themed spaces and the motives of the act. First, it grasps museums and tourism spaces not as simple heritage but as themed environments and landscapes consisting of place culture and chronotopes. Second, it elaborates on how entertainment, incorporated into themed spaces such as themed environ- ments and landscapes, urges tourists to follow modelling in terms of dramatism. Finally, the relationship between tourism policy, themed spaces, scenes acting as a category of motives, and tourists is revealed. York in the UK is selected as a quality example of themed spaces and the motives of the act in heritage tourism to strengthen this logic.
