The world’s leading category of international trade, tourism is increasingly offering a range of cultural products, from visiting monuments to the discovery of unique ways of life. This growing trend fuelled by a quest for cultural enrichment can encourage the revival of traditions and the restoration of sites and monuments. But unbridled tourism can have the opposite effect.
Here there is a real dilemma. Is there not a risk that the boom in cultural tourism, by the sheer weight of numbers involved, may harbour the seeds of its own destruction by eroding the very cultures and sites that are its stock in trade?
Our introductory section explores this dilemma along with the origins and growth of cultural tourism. Part 1 presents case studies showing what indigenous communities are doing to control tourism in their lands.
In Part 2 we examine the world of site management, where the track record is at best mixed. In conclusion , two prominent personalities in the tourist business defend mass tourism, while its advocates and other key players enter the final stages of drawing up a global code of ethics for tourism.
This article is quoted from UNESCO . Read the original article .
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