Tourism Impacts of a Portuguese World Heritage Historic Center: Resident’s Perceptions

2016 ◽  
pp. 213-227
Author(s):  
Laurentina Vareiro ◽  
Raquel Mendes
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Historic Center

The Risk of Fire in Twin Buildings of the Ouro Preto Historic Center: World Heritage

2021 ◽  
pp. 305-321
Author(s):  
Antônio Maria Claret de Gouveia ◽  
Giovana Martins Brito ◽  
Ana Elisa de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
Historic Center ◽  
Twin Buildings

Oporto’s Historic Center

2020 ◽  
pp. 172-184
Author(s):  
Maria Leonor Botelho
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Historic Center ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Careful Documentation ◽  
State Of Art

In 1996, the World Heritage Committee added the Historic Center of Oporto, Portugal, to the World Heritage List, recognizing its outstanding value, identified by its urban fabric and its many historic buildings. The area’s value is the result of a complex topography, articulated through streets, lanes, alleyways, stairs, and squares, while its architecture (residences and monuments) projects cultural values accumulated over successive eras. In the state of art section, this chapter presents some significant references and visual resources that contribute to the understand city´s urban development and to visualize the city in the past. This chapter presents two case studies of the authors’ attempts at visualization of that historic district. One describes a 3D scale model—Oporto’s Medieval Scale Model - and the other is a virtual reality project—Virtual Porto in the Sixteen Century—both shown as examples of thorough research, careful documentation of processes, and clear and approachable presentation. The authors also consider the potential of expanded development of such presentations, in light of uses in tourism and furthering greater knowledge, with the goals of facilitating the process of heritage conservation and the dissemination of information. As such, the two case studies are viewed in terms of principles of the London Charter regarding the creation of virtual heritage, as well as cite other examples of projects in European cities.

Performances of “Pasts”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Covey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Urban Site ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
Historic Center ◽  
Historical Landscape ◽  
Imperial Capital ◽  
Heritage Industry ◽  
The City

Using Cuzco’s historical landscape as a lens, this chapter considers the appropriation of the Incaic past and the intersections of indigeneity, tourism and world heritage. These themes are defined and historicized through the iconic spaces and infrastructure of Cuzco as the imperial capital, through its transformation into a colonial town, and through the city’s complicated role as a symbol of modern Peru. This background contextualizes the city in the second half of the twentieth century. Following an earthquake in 1950, UNESCO revived the Incaic past in an attempt to rebuilt and safeguard the city. This laid groundwork for subsequent master plans in the city, cultural tourism and world heritage. Contemporary Cuzco features a multifaceted heritage industry that capitalizes on the Andean past and its legacies. Clustered around the Plaza de Armas, the “heart” of the ancient Inca city, Cuzco’s Historic Center is the principal urban site where these historical themes and ideological projects converge.

Determinants of corporate social responsibility (CSR) attitudes: perspective of travel and tourism managers at world heritage sites

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 2253-2269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Geng-qing Chi ◽  
Chaozhi Zhang ◽  
Yuanyuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Corporate Social

PurposeThis study aims to examine how tourism impacts on local community, managers’ attachment to the community and their identification with the value of heritage resources influence managers’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) attitudes, utilizing the value identification and agency theories.Design/methodology/approachThe proposed hypotheses were tested utilizing cross-sectional data collected from 228 managers of a plethora of travel and tourism companies that operate at a UNESCO World Heritage site in China. A structured questionnaire was administered in person in managers’ offices by a team of trained research assistants. A total of 202 valid surveys were included in the data analysis. A two-step structural equation modeling (SEM) approach was used to first examine the psychometric properties of the measurement model, and then test the causal relationships proposed in the structural model.FindingsThe findings indicate that managers’ place attachment, their heritage value identification and their perceptions of positive tourism impacts affect their CSR attitudes. However, the negative effects of tourism do not significantly influence CSR attitudes. Data collected through open-ended questions incorporated in the structured survey have provided justification for the insignificant relationship.Originality/valueCSR perceptions of managers, especially those at heritage sites, have not received much attention from tourism scholars. Because travel and tourism companies at heritage sites are integral in the preservation and conservation of heritage sites while managers of those companies are the ones who initiate and implement socially responsible policies and practices, it is important to understand the factors that may influence those managers’ CSR attitudes and behaviors.

scholarly journals , Tourism and the UN Sustainable Development : The Case of Croatia

2021 ◽  
pp. 341-358
Author(s):  
Željka Kordej-De Villa ◽  
Ivan Šulc
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
World Heritage List

AbstractThe chapter analyses the quality of managing cultural heritage sites in Croatia, particularly those inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List, which are under growing pressure of overtourism. The analysis was performed by using qualitative and quantitative data on visitors of the UNESCO heritage and the most important impacts of tourism on destination areas, compared to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focused on tourism and heritage. The study investigates the state of safeguarding, protecting and valorizing cultural heritage in relevant documents and in practice, focusing on Dubrovnik as a case study area. The analysis revealed the insufficient plans for managing UNESCO World Heritage Sites in relevant documents and in the field, as well as lack of monitoring of tourism impacts. The selected cases in Croatia confirmed that the most common way for heritage valorization is within the framework of tourism (McKercher and du Cros, Cultural tourism. The partnership between tourism and cultural heritage management, Routledge, New York/London, 2009), where heritage is most often associated with sustainable tourism. However, desirable regenerative tourism, that repairs the harm that has already been done, is still far from the present situation and it will require much effort in its planning, designing tools for its implementation and its management to achieve it in the near future.

scholarly journals Carta Arqueológica da Cidade Velha: Uma primeira abordagem

2020 ◽  
pp. 297-306
Author(s):  
Jaylson Monteiro ◽  
Nireide Tavares ◽  
Sara da Veiga ◽  
Claudino Ramos ◽  
Edson Brito ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Basic Element ◽  
Specific Region ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Historic Center ◽  
Heritage Site

The knowledge of cultural heritage in a specific region is a basic element for the development of actions and skills necessary to save and manage. The historic set of Cidade Velha, classified as a World Heritage Site, still preserves traces that allow its conservation. In this sense, a first approach to the Archaeological Map of Cidade Velha is presented, with the identification and inventory of all vestiges, within the protected area of the site, which encompasses the Ribeira Grande valley and the historic center, and represents mainly as primordial populated areas, and urban expansion in the 16th and 17th centuries. The vestiges identified are authentic testimonies of cultural diversity that characterize a historic trajectory of the Cidade Velha.

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