scholarly journals Georgia Declaration on Wine Tourism. Fostering sustainable tourism development through intangible cultural heritage

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Trišić ◽  
Snežana Štetić ◽  
Donatella Privitera ◽  
Adrian Nedelcu

Sustainable tourism development of the northern part of Serbia in Autonomous Province of Vojvodina aims to achieve ecological, sociocultural, and economic benefits. This means that all entities should be included in the planning and implementation of tourism, such as the local community, tourists, and state entities, while tourism activity should be focused on improving ecological principles and sociocultural conception in a destination. One of the models of this development is seen in specific products that can play a significant role in tourism development. Such an authentic product is wine, which has a very important role in the promotion of tourism. The aim of this paper is to explore Vojvodina—the region of Serbia—as a valuable wine tourism destination in the country, especially the experiences of the wine routes. We use descriptive statistics techniques to summarize and present the data and adopt a correlation analysis technique to describe respondents’ preference on the importance of the wine routes. In the empirical survey, the main conclusion is a positive correlation that by developing wine tourism in Vojvodina, we can influence economic development of the region.


Author(s):  
Reham Kamel El-Khadrawy ◽  
Amr Abdalla Attia ◽  
Marwa Khalifa ◽  
Rowaida Rashed

Cultural Tourism offers a strong motivation to preserve the elements of cultural heritage in tourist destinations. It helps to preserve cultural elements as important tourist attractions. Cultural tourism’s notion is unlimited to visiting monumental attractions only, but it has also become an interactive experience with the social fabric of the community through attending exhibitions, festivals and events, and the purchase of traditional local products. Thus, the human capital factor in tourism is linked to the quality of tourism products. With the growth of international tourism, the importance of sustainable tourism development has emerged to protect natural, cultural, and human resources, in addition to achieving economic development. As non-sustainable tourism development has led to the deterioration of tourism resources. This research paper examines if cultural tourism contributes to decrease tourism seasonality and achieve sustainable tourism development in cultural heritage sites. A case study of Aswan was selected. Aswan has unique and important elements of cultural heritage (Tangible and Intangible), but it still faces many problems like tourism seasonality, besides its tourism is still weak compared with other cities that have the same tourism potential. Based on a literature review and analytical study of global examples that achieved sustainability in cultural heritage sites, a field study of Aswan was conducted to evaluate the current status of cultural tourism, besides illustrating the challenges of achieving sustainability. The major result that has emerged from the study is paying attention to cultural tourism is the possible solution to the challenges that Aswan tourism faces. Finally, the paper concluded that investment in human capital creates opportunities for cultural tourism which in return resolves one of tourism’s major challenges: seasonality.


2014 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Rodoljub Cuculovic ◽  
Milutin Mrksa ◽  
Ana Cuculovic

Cultural tourism is directly linked to the cultural and historical basis of an area, relative quality and quantity of cultural monuments and cultural buildings and the manifestation. Development of cultural tourism is necessary to agree with the basic principles of sustainable tourism. Sustainable tourism is a peak in the management of all resources in a way that economic, social and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled while maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes and biological diversity and maintenance systems of the living world is a new and higher quality set of rules and principles in tourism development. Vrbas municipality is a good basis for the development of cultural tourism, but it takes place in the cultural heritage feature of sustainable tourism development, and create this type of tourism activities and as independent as the integral of the total tourist offer.


Author(s):  
M. Kret

Natural, historical and cultural background of the Ukrainian-Polish borderland are static factors of tourism development. They form the basis for determining the types of tourism activities in the region. By the method of SWOT have been identified strengths (biotic and landscape diversity, a large excess of heights, a large forest area, the presence of mineral springs, plentiful historical and cultural heritage, etc.), weaknesses, opportunities and threats for sustainable tourism development in the region (based on Yavorivskiy and Lyubachivsky district). Key words: recreational resources, the method of SWOT, Ukrainian-Polish borderland.


Author(s):  
Rossana Andreia Santos

This chapter argues that tourism activities, emigration, and cooperation projects can spur growth and sustainable development in rural areas, in general, helping to reduce the existing asymmetries of development, phenomenon that reaches Portugal and other Member States of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Member States (CPLP). The results of a study developed in Portugal evidence that the potential return of a segment of Portuguese emigrants, settled around the world, can contribute to growth and sustainable tourism development in rural areas of Portugal. In this scope, the existence of a Portuguese-speaking cultural heritage allied to the CPLP Strategic Tourism Cooperation Plan can also have a critical role in growth and sustainable development in CPLP.


Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 4700-4715
Author(s):  
Angelos Manglis ◽  
Anastasia Fourkiotou ◽  
Dimitra Papadopoulou

This paper presents a roadmap to enable the adoption of the BLUEMED model; an integrated plan developed within the BLUEMED project that promotes underwater cultural heritage (UCH) to both divers and non-divers and aims at sustainable tourism development in coastal areas and islands. Through augmented and virtual reality technologies, one can experience wet and dry diving to accessible underwater cultural heritage site(s) (AUCHS), through a physical dive at the sites or a virtual tour at Knowledge Awareness Centers (KACs). The roadmap provides guidelines, so that relevant stakeholders and competent authorities can implement the BLUEMED model and consider the various environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic factors of the area (locality), to ensure viability in the long-term. The roadmap focuses on the policy and technical parameters, including the cultural and environmental features of the site, the legislative framework, funding issues, the integration of technologies, the prospects for sustainable tourism development in the area, the stakeholder engagement, and the cooperation framework within a top-down or a bottom-up initiative, as well as the establishment and operation of the KACs.


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