The complex issues of conservation, politics, tourism management and ownership have emerged as critical issues within the World Heritage debate and specifically within heritage tourism research. Within this context, this article focuses on issues of ownership and belonging and argues that there exists a link between the conceptual inconsistencies inherent in the World Heritage idea and the tens...

Our cultural heritage derives from the development and diversifi cation of human cultures and abilities. Scientifi c investigation of cultural heritage has several important aims: (1) increasing our knowledge and understanding of the tangible heritage; (2) assembling information, including physical evidence, in order to add cultural value to the heritage, including the “intangible” values; and ...

A conflict between the preservation of the character of existing historic towns and “change” has formed the central argument for conservation. More recently, heritage has superseded conservation, where marketing of heritage as a product according to the demands of the consumer, mainly tourists, has resulted in the commercialisation of heritage over conservation values. Today, the symbiosis of b...

With the opening of the long-awaited Boyne Valley Centre in Summer 1997, the time has perhaps come to reassess the relationship between heritage and tourism in Ireland. In recent years, particularly since the start of the 1990s, there has been considerable debate and controversy about heritage issues, illustrating a high degree of public interest in the field. This paper outlines the main featu...

117 As Head points out, “the cultural heritage sector uses the classical geographical sense of landscapes as modified by human activity, with an emphasis on ancient monuments and historical buildings.” In other words, cultural landscape heritage is generally approached in terms of material or morphological artifacts that constitute culturally determined physical, and therefore visible, modifica...

Abstract The management of Cultural Heritage (CH) requires increasingly efficient, simple and shareable tools, methods knowledge. In this environment, a suitable procedure was developed to transform the point cloud, generated by geomatics surveys, into parameterized objects. order obtain an object with precise geometric physical characteristics, three-dimensional modelling software (Rhinoceros)...

This article inquires into the effects of heritagisation on popular religious practices in Guangdong Province, People’s Republic China. With establishment intangible cultural heritage (ICH) inventory system China, numerous practices, such as procession local deities, ancestor worship, temple festivals, exorcisms, divination, and spirit mediumship, are free stigma “feudal superstition” now recog...

Abstract Background The relation between religiousness and prejudice has been the topic of a large research literature, yet this was so far mostly limited to Western societies with Christian heritage. Purpose This study sought compare religiousness–prejudice relationship adherents monotheistic non-monotheistic religions. Focusing on inter-religious we examined whether theological exclusivism mo...

Intangible Cultural Heritage is of comparatively high value in culture, economy, science and tourism, which is at its peak of development and utilization. Intangible cultural heritage needs preservation, so the development and utilization of the digital storage of intangible cultural heritage are a subject of theoretical and practical values. Among the various complicated types of intangible cu...