World Heritage Sites and Tourism

Global and Local Relations

Laurent Bourdeau, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Mike Robinson, Laurent Bourdeau, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Mike Robinson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781138339378
• eBook ISBN: 9781134784370
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geography
• Index: Geography

Not all World Heritage Sites have people living within or close by their boundaries, but many do. The designation of World Heritage statusbrings a new dimension to the functioning of local communities and particularly through tourism. Too many tourists accentuated by the World Heritage label, or in some cases not enough tourists, despite anticipation of increased numbers, can act to disrupt and disturb relations within a community and between communities. Either way, tourism can be seen as a form of activity that can generate interest and concern as it is played out within World Heritage Sites. But the relationships that World Heritage Sites and their consequent tourism share with communities are notjust a function of the number of tourists. The relationships are complex and ever changing as the communities themselves change and are built upon long-standing and wider contextual factors that stretch beyond tourism.

This volume, drawing upon a wide range of international cases relating to some33 World Heritage Sites, reveals the multiple dimensions of the relations that exist between the sites and local communities. The designation of the sites can create, obscure and heighten the power relations between different parts of a community, between different communities and between the tourism and the heritage sector. Increasingly, the management of World Heritage is not only about the management of buildings and landscapes but about managing the communities that live and work in or near them.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• 1 Tourism at World Heritage Sites: community ambivalence
• 2 World Heritage as a revitalization movement: managing local and global tourism in UNESCO’s heritage-scape
• 3 Responsible tourism and poverty: the porters of the Inca Trail
• 4 Machu Picchu: an Andean Utopia for the twenty-first century?
• 5 Interrogating the ‘universal’ in St. Lucia’s Pitons Management Area
• 6 Archaeological replica vendors and an alternative history of a Mexican heritage site: the case of Monte Albán
• 7 Indigenous perspectives on ownership and management of Yucatecan archaelogical sites
• 8 World Heritage, tourism development, and identity politics at the Tsodilo Hills
• 9 Tourism community involvement strategy for the Living World Heritage Site of Hampi, India: a case study
• 10 Reconstructing biodiversity for tourism development: ethnographic accounts from a World Heritage Site in the making
• 11 Post-inscription challenges: renegotiating World Heritage management in the Laponia Area in Sweden
• 12 The level of societal reproduction as a predictor of visitation: lessons from World Heritage Sites in the United States
• 13 Looking back towards the future: historical analysis of Machu Picchu planning documents as a key to site conservation
• 14 Shandong Province and tourism: an examination of World Heritage Sites
• 15 The valuation of protected areas: tourists in Chitwan National Park, Nepal
• 16 The impact of tourism on Latin American World Heritage towns
• 17 Visitor management in sensitive historic landscapes: strategies to avoid conflict in Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site
• Index