The Heritage-scape : UNESCO, World Heritage, and Tourism.
Tourism today is recognized as the largest and fastest-growing industry in the world, capable of producing positive social and economic transformations especially in developing countries. Yet for UNESCO, it works in conjunction with World Heritage sites for a far more ambitious goal: to produce ...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Lexington Books
2008.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : traveling across stones that speak
- Mediating world heritage : authenticity and fields of production in tourism and heritage
- The heritage-scape : UNESCO's globalizing endeavor
- Unity in diversity : The heritage-scape's meta-narrative claim
- Tourism : the heritage-scape's ritual interaction
- Converting localities into universal heritage
- Politics and personalities within the heritage-scape : narratives of nature and culture in Vietnam
- Museumification of local cultures : Ha Long Bay and Hoi An
- Creating the drama of the destination : managing, interpreting and branding world heritage sites
- Preserving the past : the heritage-scape and historic preservation
- Problematics of preservation : narrative and practice at the Angkor Archaeological Park
- Raising awareness, re-presenting the heritage-scape : fragmentary and reproducible re-presentations
- The future of the heritage-scape.
