Restoration and Management of World Heritage Christian Cultural Sites: Problems of Religious Tourism – Challenges - Perspectives

2019 ◽  
pp. 239-261
Author(s):  
Alkiviadis Prepis
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
Cultural Sites ◽  
Religious Tourism

scholarly journals Word Heritage Sites as soft tourism destinations – their impacts on international arrivals and tourism receipts

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (45) ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Bacsi ◽  
Éva Tóth
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
General Level ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Cultural Sites ◽  
Natural World Heritage Sites ◽  
Cultural World

AbstractThe paper deals with the relationship between the presence of world heritage sites in a country and the volume of international tourist arrivals and international tourism receipts. World heritage sites are unique tourist attractions with enhanced attention paid to their protection, preservation and sustainability. The paper analyses whether the needs of sustainability can be harmonised with the requirements of a profitable and successful tourism sector, by statistical analysis of data about world heritage sites and tourism performance, for 129 countries of the world from 2014 to 2017. The results show that both cultural and natural world heritage sites are generally strong attractions for tourists and can contribute to increased arrivals and receipts. Cultural sites were found to have higher impact on arrivals, while natural heritage sites seemed to have more impact on receipts, which suggest, that visitors of natural world heritage sites are usually higher spenders, than tourists visiting cultural sites. Countries widely differ, however, in this respect by their geographical locations. Countries in Europe and Latin-America & the Caribbean region benefit most from cultural world heritage sites, while African, and North American countries experienced the benefits of natural world heritage sites more. The general level of development measured by per capita GNI also mattered for the less developed areas, but not so much for developed regions that possess a suitable level of infrastructure, health and education, and living standards.

scholarly journals Historisitas Gereja Protestan Indonesia bagian Barat Penabur Surakarta Sebagai Potensi Objek Wisata Religi

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Handri Yonathan
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Philosophy Of Culture ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

Gereja Protestan di Indonesia bagian Barat (GPIB) Penabur Surakarta arose from a historical City of Surakarta with its particular philosophy of culture. Especially in its relation with Sultanate Palace which built with Javanese Cosmological considerations. This research aimed to describe a history of GPIB Penabur Surakarta. This description relates with church potency as religious tourism object in Surakarta. GPIB Penabur with historical and cosmological capital will be an option for heritage tourism in Surakarta as one of world heritage city. Through this involvement, the church not only present as a religious-spiritual entity, but also socio-economic capital.AbstrakGereja Protestan di Indonesia bagian Barat (GPIB) Penabur Surakarta hadir dalam perjalanan sejarah Kota Surakarta yang memiliki filosofi kebudayaan yang tinggi, Kehadiran ini bermakna terutama dalam hubungannya dengan Keraton Surakarta yang dibangun dengan pertimbangan-pertimbangan kosmologis Jawa. Penelitian ini mencoba melihat kesejarahan GPIB Penabur dalam konteks sejarah Surakarta yang lebih luas. Kesejarahan ini akan dilihat sebagai potensi objek wisata religi. Kota Surakarta sebagai kota budaya dan kota pusaka dunia adalah destinasi wisata di Indonesia. Dalam konteks ini GPIB Penabur menjadi opsi sebagai objek wisata religi di Surakarta. Melalui peran ini gereja hadir tidak sekedar sebagai entitas spiritual-religius, tetapi juga sosial-ekonomis.

scholarly journals The status of current and tentative marine natural World Heritage areas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Kuempel ◽  
Blake Alexander Simmons ◽  
Madeline Davey
Keyword(s):  
Threatened Species ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Cultural Sites ◽  
Outstanding Universal Value ◽  
The Status

The 1972 World Heritage Convention (WHC), along with the 1994 Global Strategy, aim to preserve the outstanding universal value of internationally important cultural and natural sites within a "representative, balanced and credible" network of highly-protected areas. Increasing human pressures and shortfalls in representation have been documented across the World Heritage network, particularly in terrestrial and cultural sites, threatening the integrity and primary goals of the WHC. However, the conservation status of current and tentative (i.e., proposed) marine natural World Heritage areas remains relatively unknown. We assessed the extent of recent (2013) and historical (2008-2013) cumulative human impacts and several metrics of representation (country, continent, ecoregion, wilderness, and threatened species) within existing and tentative marine natural World Heritage areas. We found moderate yet increasing cumulative human impacts across most existing sites, and high or very high impacts across the majority of tentative sites. Climate change impacts comprised nearly 75% of impact scores, on average, and differences in land and marine impacts across sites could help prioritise management decisions. Over 75% of marine ecoregions and 85% of threatened species considered in this study have no representation within the existing marine natural World Heritage network. We outline examples of how prioritizing representation across tentative sites for future World Heritage listing could greatly increase these measures. We urge the WHC to adopt quantitative, systematic and transparent evaluations of how current and tentative sites contribute to the overarching goals of maintaining a representative World Heritage network and preserving their outstanding universal values for future generations.

scholarly journals World Heritage Sites on Wikipedia: Cultural Heritage Activism in a Context of Constrained Agency

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Marwick ◽  
Prema Smith
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Data Science ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
The Past ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Distributions ◽  
Cultural Sites

UNESCO World Heritage sites are places of outstanding significance, and often key sources of information that influence how people interact with the past today. The process of inscription on the UNESCO list is complicated and intersects with political and commercial controversies. But how well are these controversies known to the public? Wikipedia pages on these sites offer a unique dataset for insights into public understanding of heritage controversies. The unique technicity of Wikipedia, with its bot ecosystem and editing mechanics, shapes how knowledge about cultural heritage is constructed, and how controversies are negotiated and communicated. In this article we investigate the patterns of production, consumption and spatial and temporal distributions of Wikipedia pages for World Heritage cultural sites. We find that Wikipedia provides a distinctive context for investigating how people experience and relate to the past in the present. The agency of participants is highly constrained, but distinctive, behind-the-scenes expressions of cultural heritage activism are evident. Concerns about state-like actors, violence and destruction, deal-making, etc. in the World Heritage inscription process are present, but rare on Wikipedia’s World Heritage pages. Instead hyper-local, and process issues dominate controversies on Wikipedia. We describe how this kind of research, drawing on big data and data science methods, contributes to digital heritage studies, and also reveals its limitations.

scholarly journals UNESCO'S WORLD HERITAGE IN UKRAINE: OBJECTS AND INCLUSION APPLICANTS FOR THE LIST

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-23
Author(s):  
Olexander Zarakhovskyі ◽  
Serhii Neilenko
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
The State ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Current State ◽  
Cultural Sites ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Unesco Sites

The purpose of the study is to analyze the current state and geography of the Ukrainian UNESCO World Heritage, and potential sites for the inclusion into the World Heritage List. Methods: The study used logical methods, methods of analogy and comparison, the cartographic method. Results: The current state, geography of the Ukrainian UNESCO World Heritage and potential sites for the inclusion into the World Heritage List have been analyzed. Ukrainian UNESCO sites are not widely represented in the World Heritage List, also they are distributed irregularly on territory of the state. It was determined that the largest number of potential UNESCO sites in Ukraine are historical fortification sites. Scientific novelty: The results of the reserch expand the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of the structure and geography of UNESCO World Heritage, and of the potential for replenishing it with Ukrainian historical and cultural sites. Practical implications: The results of the reserch can be used as a theoretical basis for expanding the UNESCO World Heritage List in Ukraine.

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