Cultural Heritage Research Paper

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Tourism today accommodates more than 1 billion travelers across the globe; exploring the different facets of the travel industry. Culture and heritage have always been on the top list of to-do activities in every traveler’s itinerary; to witness and experience how other people live and to learn something of their cultural heritage. Heritage is linked to the past; heritage is not the equivalent of history, yet history is the source of heritage. History is what historian regards as worth of recording and heritage is what contemporary society chooses to inherit and to pass on (Tunbridge and Ashworth 1996:6). David Herbert suggests that it is ‘among the undefinable’, though he categorizes heritage into three broad types: ‘cultural’, ‘natural’ …show more content…

Cultural tourism refers to forms of tourism that highlight the cultural, heritage or artistic aspects of a destination or experiences and activities for the tourist. It relies on living and built elements of culture and refers to the use of the tangible and intangible past as a tourism resource. Culture describes the total way of living built up by a group of human beings, which is transmitted from one generation to another. Therefore cultural tourism embraces both the meaning; it is experiential tourism involved in and stimulated by a great variety of things- the performing arts, visual arts, festivals, cuisines, history, experiencing nostalgia and other ways of …show more content…

With 37 sites already listed in Southeast Asia and many more submitted for review, culture, histories and landscapes have been recognized for their unique value for mankind. Among the prominent cultural heritage is the Angkor temple complex consists the remains of the capital of the Khmer Empire, dating from the 9th to the 15th century. The Angkor site especially includes the famous temple of Angkor Wat, the Bayon Temple at Angkor Thom, and the jungle-invaded Ta Phrom temple. Others include the Temple of Preah Vihear in Cambodia, Borobudur and Prambanan Temple Compounds in Indonesia, Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape in

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