III. Heritage tourism change With the advancement of economic globalization and regional integration, the human society is from the traditional natural economy and industrial economy toward a cultural economic era. Countries, regions and ethnic consciousness of one 's own cultural resources protection and utilization continuously strengthen. The characteristic culture as unique resources of regional economy became the important of comprehensive national strength and national competitiveness. With
Heritage tourism or cultural heritage tourism or diaspora tourism is a branch of tourism that focusses on the cultural heritage of the place of tourism. According to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States of America travelling to experience the places, artifacts and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past and heritage tourism can include cultural, historic and natural resources. Heritage tourism promotes heritage of a place while ensuring
Nowadays tourism has become one of the major social and economic phenomena that spread around the world and became part of our daily routine. Millions of people travel every day, internationally and domestically, with different intentions and motives. In 1987, Chadwick provided a simplified categorisation of travelling motivations that included three main headings: pleasure, professional and other purposes (Mason, 2015). The seeking for pleasure is one of the most prevalent motivation in contemporary
Jamaica possesses a wealth of culture and heritage that is exceedingly unique, hard to imitate and is one of the most easily identifiable image in the world. Such a greatness should be used to increase visitors’ interest to the various attractions but unfortunately Jamaica has not capitalized on this fact. Since its establishment as a tourism hotspot, Jamaica is flaunted as one of the Caribbean region’s most beautiful and unique getaways. This reputation has been solidified through its many grand
The existence of alternative tourism has been present for a number of years (Jones, 1992). Alternative tourism has been known at an early stage as a formal concept which wanted to adopt a restricted perspective. For example, (Dernoi, 1981)discussed about homestay tourism as a form of alternative tourism where tourists stay in local residential houses for their accommodation (Weaver, 2013). It has as well been said that alternative tourism began to gain importance from the 1980s, when it was defined
of Tourism Development: A Conceptual Framework for the Sustainable Cultural Tourism] Seung Yeoun Kim(Martín) The scientific paper [Local perception of Tourism Development : A conceptual Framework for the sustainable culture tourism] discusses the importance of local perception of tourism development to achieve sustainable culture and tourism. First, It talks about the definition of sustainable tourism, the definition of cultural tourism, and the principles of sustainable culture and tourism. And
and I had researched about culture heritages and we came out with an issue: “To what extent can cultural heritages be preserved in the 21st century.” The perspectives that are going to be covered are: Politics, Economy, Technology, Culture, and Ethics. I will be discussing my findings regarding ethical issues. More specifically, I will be narrowing the scope to the ethics of tourism. And how it might be an obstruction to the preservation of culture heritages sites. One of the example is The Old
tendency that tourism policy emphasizes on economic goals rather than how tourism and environment can benefit each other. Whereas environment is a major aspect in tourism industry, while the preservation and conservation of it can bring positive image to tourism industry. In a tourist destination where natural environment is not the main attraction, awareness on clean and healthy environment should not be neglected. In order to create a sustainable environment around a world heritage site, a management
through the recognition of loss from the devastation of two World Wars the World Heritage Convention came in. After World War II, in the 1920’s the process of the wealthier nations assisting poorer nations protect their heritage commenced with the League of Nations and was taken over by the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The international concern was heightening this importance idea around the decision to build the Aswan High Dam in Egypt and flood the Nile
the cultural and heritage of Kadazan traditional practices and customs in funeral. As a start brief definition regarding the cultural heritage tourism, background of cultural heritage tourism in Malaysia and Sabah will be discussed, followed by the introduction of Kadazan ethnic in Sabah. Furthermore, in this first chapter the research issue, problem statement and research objective will be highlighted which will linked to the