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Essay On Heritage Tourism

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The National Trust for Historic Preservation defined cultural heritage tourism as traveling to experience the places, artifacts and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past. (Othuman Mydin, Ismail, Masron, Ahmad, & Marzuki, 2014) stated that cultural heritage tourism has long existed, but recent demographic, social, and cultural changes in the main source countries have led to an increasing number of new niche markets in destination countries, including culture-oriented holidays . According to(Ashworth, 2009) , heritage sites and artifacts being often old may be particularly fragile and vulnerable to damage. Tourists unavoidably cause damage in three main ways. First they physically damage the structures and …show more content…

In addition, based on World Heritage Convention (2016), Malaysia has been included in the 163 countries under the list of UNESCO. Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy located in Southeast Asia. It consists of thirteen states and three federal territories and has a total landmass of 330,803 square kilometres separated by the South China Sea into two similarly sized regions, Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia (Wikipedia Malaysia, 2016). According to World Heritage Convention, The UNESCO has designated four World Heritage Sites in Malaysia. They are Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley, Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca for cultural and Gunung Mulu National Park and Kinabalu Park for …show more content…

According to (Simpson, 2008) community benefit from tourism can be divided to four broad categories; economic, environmental, socio-cultural and the building of skills and influence. Firstly is from economic perspectives. The major benefit of tourism for a region or country is economic as it provides an opportunity for job creation and generation of revenue at international, national, regional and local levels (Zaei & Zaei, 2013). Tourism can also benefit economies at regional and local levels, as money comes into urban and rural areas which in turn stimulates new business enterprises and promotes a more positive image in an area (C. Cooper, 2008). So a tourism industry really does help in economic

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