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| Cultural heritage, man and tourism |
| Report of the Asia-Europe Seminar. Hanoi (Vietnam) 5-7 November 2001. |
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european institute of cultural routes |
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| Dorothée Orjol |
| 31 March 2003 |
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Informations
Support: brochure
Language : English
Editor : university of Liege
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| 17 x 24 cm, 157 p. |
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Economic globalisation and the growing mobility of individuals in the world shape more and more our life styles. The larger access to cultural heritage sites to a broadening range of persons by means of tourism is a by-product of this social and economic change. The worldwide development of international, national and local tourism shows that tourism seems to be an interesting business. As a consequence, the preservation of cultural heritage became part of the strategy to putting or keeping one's country as an attractive spot on the international market of tourism.
The importance of tourism is thus usually linked to the potential economic benefits for a country. But at the same time and in order to achieve this economic aim, tourism needs heavy investments into preservation of cultural heritage and the construction of infrastructures. Last but not least, tourism stands also for intercultural contacts that might not be easy to be managed and could even represent a danger of damage to cultural heritage.
It becomes clear that cultural heritage must be understood in a much broader sense than just as a synonym for historic buildings, monuments and art. It includes also life styles, religious perceptions of the world, as well as culturally determined approaches to land, family, food and the Other. This means that there is more about cultural heritage and tourism than economic and technical aspects.
Thus it is about time to introduce the human dimension into the discussion about tourism and cultural heritage. Man as a cultural vector is a major element in this relation and to understand its motivations and expectation concerning tourism gives us the key for a better management of cultural heritage and tourism.
For that reason, this seminar introduced a sociological and anthropological approach into the current discussion about cultural heritage and tourism. The way of how men experience tourism -either as tourist or as member of a local population that receives tourists -becomes thus the centre of the discussion. |
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