scholarly journals Sustainable Tourism and Culture: A Symbiotic Relationship

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Reham Kamel El-Khadrawy ◽  
Amr Abdalla Attia ◽  
Marwa Khalifa ◽  
Rowaida Rashed
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Heritage Sites

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.

scholarly journals Cultural heritage in the function of sustain development of tourism in the municipality of Vrbas

2014 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Rodoljub Cuculovic ◽  
Milutin Mrksa ◽  
Ana Cuculovic
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Cultural Integrity ◽  
Rules And Principles ◽  
Maintenance Systems

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.

scholarly journals A Roadmap for the Sustainable Valorization of Accessible Underwater Cultural Heritage Sites

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 4700-4715
Author(s):  
Angelos Manglis ◽  
Anastasia Fourkiotou ◽  
Dimitra Papadopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Underwater Cultural Heritage ◽  
Technical Parameters ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Legislative Framework

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.

scholarly journals Culture and Sustainable Tourism: Does the Pair Pay in Medium-Sized Cities?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9072
Author(s):  
Stefania Środa-Murawska ◽  
Elżbieta Grzelak-Kostulska ◽  
Jadwiga Biegańska ◽  
Leszek S. Dąbrowski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Economic Effect ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Sector

Undoubtedly, one of the greatest challenges to civilisation today is the need to fulfil commitments to build a just and caring global society. These commitments also apply to the tourism sector. The aim of the article was to determine how to identify opportunities for sustainable tourism development based on cultural heritage in medium-sized cities whose tourism assets can hardly be considered outstanding. This is an even more significant problem, as even in conditions of relatively low tourist traffic cultural tourism may have an unsustainable character if the relevant policy is pursued and the attitude of the inhabitants are inappropriate. The authors proposed to complement the Triple Bottom Line used to assess the sustainability of a destination with the assessment of the local authority’s attitude towards cultural development and characteristics regarding the involvement of the inhabitants. The study has shown that even if the cultural assets of medium-sized cities are not outstanding, they can play a role in tourism development. It is important to remember that their advantage lies in their locality, and that expecting too much of an economic effect of developing tourism can deprive them of this advantage permanently.

scholarly journals Revitalizing the cultural heritage sites of the medieval town of Tansen for the sustainable tourism development

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
Paras SJB Rana
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Natural Settings

   Tansen is renowned for its natural settings, historic buildings and a living cultural heritage that have remained, from medieval period until now. By UNWTO statistics,internationally, cultural tourism comprises 39% of the total tourism arrivals. This reaffirms that offering greater access to the cultural and heritage assets would give Tansen a competitive edge over the other tourist destinations and increase its attractiveness as a top tourist destination in Nepal. This article is related to study of how the heritage sites could be revived to make the cultural heritage tourism sustainable and regain Tansen’s economic vibrancy that has been depleting in the recent times. The purpose of the study is to examine the current state of the cultural heritage management in Tansen, to examine the prospect of revitalizing the cultural heritage assets and; to examine the role of the local communities in these aspects. The methods used in the study were site observations, a key informant interview of experts including the city Mayor, tourism entrepreneurs, site mangers and opinion survey of tourists and the local community resident. The study shows that local population has a positive opinion and initial enthusiasm on the emerging tourist arrivals after the restoration of Rani Mahal, but their role is marginalized in the process. This is the key proposition to start an initiative for the local communities to actively participate in tourism development projects. ‘Revitalizing the Rani Mahal heritage’ launched through the Public Private Partnership with support from UNESCO could build the trust amongst the high end international as well as domestic tourist and attract more investments to conserve, protect and promote the heritage capital stocks for the Tansen tourism development.

The Use of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Cultural Heritage and Deep-Diving Destinations

2022 ◽  
pp. 138-160
Author(s):  
Nihan Garipağaoğlu-Uğur ◽  
Orhan Akova
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Underwater Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Deep Diving ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Recreational Diving

Underwater cultural heritage and deep diving are important attractions for tourism. Using cutting-edge technology tools for cultural heritage became more important for tourism destinations. The purpose of this chapter is to evaluate the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) in tourism from the perspective of cultural heritage and deep diving. This chapter will contribute to the literature to show a new way of sustainable tourism. Commercial diving to an underwater heritage site a is popular touristic activity. Sometimes shipwreck recovery can be hazardous for cultural heritage. The review results indicate that these underwater cultural heritage sites need to be protected for sustainable tourism development. Virtual tours contribute to the sustainability of cultural heritage. On the other hand, treasure hunting trips and recreational diving may cause damage to the archaeological sites. Underwater cultural heritage sites should be protected for sustainable tourism. VR and AR applications can be used to promote a touristic destination by tourism marketers for experimental marketing.

The future of sustainable tourism development for the Greek enterprises that provide sport tourism

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 1155-1162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgia Yfantidou ◽  
Eleni Spyridopoulou ◽  
Charilaos Kouthouris ◽  
Panagiota Balaska ◽  
Michela Matarazzo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Coastal Pollution ◽  
Sport Tourism ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Green Tourism

‘Green tourism’ is defined as tourism that enhances local cultural elements, which are operating under the control of local communities, providing employment and maintaining economic benefits within the local communities. In fact, many times the above definition is poorly utilized, since there are times when the economic benefits dim from local communities. Tourism industry uses the term as a message to tourists on energy saving, avoiding coastal pollution and so on. Sometimes, the same tourist businesses are accused of using the term or labelling ‘green’ primarily for marketing purposes. Although it is a fact that tourism industry is starting to respond to the changing values of tourists regarding environmental issues, however, the purpose of this research is to infer if there is a future for sustainable tourism development concerning the enterprises that provide sport tourism in Greece.

scholarly journals The Role of Social Capital in Serangan Sub-District, Denpasar-Bali

2021 ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
I Gede Putra Nugraha ◽  
I Made Antara ◽  
Made Budiarsa ◽  
Syamsul Alam Paturusi
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Potential Area

Serangan sub-district as a potential area is a representation of Denpasar City Government’s policy on environmental conservation, historical and cultural values, the interests of the world of education, and the interests of cultural tourism full of attractions. The purpose of this study is to identify the role of social capital in the development of sustainable tourism in the Serangan Sub-District and to analyze the effect of government roles, community participation, and social capital on destination quality and sustainable tourism development in the Serangan sub-district. The result of this research shows that social capital norms in the Serangan sub-district has an important role in tourism development in the Serangan sub-district, where the norms in traditional villages in the Serangan sub-district are still very strong.

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