Resetting Cultural Heritage Policy and Management Practice - Moderating Mass Tourism in Post-Pandemic Times

Tourism has emerged as one of the world’s largest industries and a fast growing economic sector. The Asian region attracts a growing number of quality-conscious tourists as it is endowed with a rich bio-cultural/heritage diversity. However, the diversity and integrity of many Asian tourist destinations have been severely eroded or irreversibly damaged due to ill-conceived, poorly planned, and under-regulated mass tourism and other human activities, increasing the conflicts between conservation and local livelihoods. Fortunately, the newly emerging community-based eco-cultural heritage tourism (CBECHT) can be effectively used in the region for achieving the objectives of sustainable development by integrating pro-poor tourism approaches. Such approaches are strongly promoted and supported by several international organizations as well as Local Agenda 21. This article provides a broad conceptual framework for this approach and evaluates the potentials and constraints for evolving and implementing such strategies in the region with their policy/planning implications.

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Epilogue: Messner Country

Topographic Memory and Victorian Travellers in the Dolomite Mountains ◽

10.5117/9789462987616_epilo ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

William Bainbridge

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

World Heritage ◽

South Tyrol ◽

Mass Tourism ◽

World Heritage List ◽

The World ◽

Political Borders ◽

Discursive Patterns

Disencumbered from their historical conditions and rehashed in different discursive patterns, symbols outlined in the previous chapters re-emerge today in the controversial debate on the cultural heritage of the Dolomites. This debate, critically revived after their inscription in the World Heritage List, subtly exploits these ‘neutral’ symbols when the economy of mass tourism and the internationalization of leisure appear to overshadow ethnic and national divides. Aspects of this most recent recirculation of symbols are presented through fieldwork conducted at the Messner Mountain Museums in South Tyrol. While perfectly aware of crossing multiple ethnic and political borders, Victorian travellers were, instead, mainly concerned with a picturesque version of the Dolomites that was translatable into their own language and heritage.

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Consuming heritage: counter-uses of the city and gentrification

Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology ◽

10.1590/s1809-43412013000100009 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 165-189 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Rogerio Proença Leite

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Urban Space ◽

Spatial Segregation ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Urban Policies ◽

Heritage Sites ◽

Heritage Policy ◽

The City ◽

The Way

Based on research in the old Recife Quarter in the city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco state, Brazil, this study examines processes of gentrification in areas of heritage value. The article focuses on the way in which these urban policies have transformed cultural heritage into a commodity, and urban space into social relationships mediated by consumerism. I argue that heritage sites that undergo processes of gentrification create strong spatial segregation and generate an appropriation of space by the excluded population that takes the form of counter-uses, undermining the uses imagined by urban and heritage policy makers.

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Rome, Maastricht and Amsterdam

Archaeological Dialogues ◽

10.1017/s1380203800001562 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 20-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Johanna D. Tzanidaki

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

Management Practice ◽

Heritage Management ◽

Cultural Integration ◽

The Political ◽

European Identity ◽

European Union Law ◽

Political Union ◽

Member States

AbstarctThe proliferation of European Union law and policies and their impact on Member States appear to be issues very much connected with the future of the political union of Europe. Heritage management practice in Member States is also being affected by legal developments promoted by E.U. institutions. This article attempts to assess the E.U.'s growth of interest in cultural heritage matters as part of a broader political context, which involves issues ranging from economic development to ‘European’ identity. The successful cultural integration of Member States is being pursued by the E.U. on the basis of a common cultural heritage. Does the perceived legal necessity for uniformity in Member State's heritage management pose a danger to the differences and particularities that stem from the diverse pasts in the E.U.?

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