
Última actualización: 08/02/2010
Covers the management issues encountered at cultural and natural world heritage sites including designation, marketing, visitor management, revenue generation and management.
Illustrated with international case studies including World Heritage Sites in the Americas, Machupicchu, Stonehenge, Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia, Megalithic Temples of Malta.
International contributor team of well known and respected experts in this field
Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Editors and contributors; Foreword; Professor Henry Cleere; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part One Introduction to World Heritage Sites; 1 World Heritage Site Designation: Anna Leask; 2 Implementing the World Heritage Convention: What happens after listing?: C. Michael Hall; Part Two Management of World Heritage Sites; 3 Stakeholders and Community Participation: Sue Millar; 4 Marketing Issues and World Heritage Sites: Stephen W. Boyd and Dallen J. Timothy; 5 Destination Management: An Holistic Approach. Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City: Bryn Parry; 6 Visitor Management at World Heritage Sites: Myra Shackley; Part Three Generating and Managing Revenue; 7 Tourism?s Contribution to World Heritage Site Management: Janet Cochrane & Richard Tapper; 8 Juxtaposing the Timeless and the Ephemeral: Staging Festivals and Events at World Heritage Sites: Melanie Smith, Elizabeth Carnegie & Martin Robertson; 9 Information Communication Technology Applications for World Heritage Site Management: Dimitrios Buhalis, Ruth Owen and Daniel Pletinckx; Part Four Strategy; 10 Strategy and Policy for the World Heritage Convention: Goals, Practices and Future Solutions: Greg J. Ashworth and Bart J.J. van der Aa; The Future Market for World Heritage Sites: Alan Fyall and Tijana Rakic; Part Five Case Studies; 12 Visitor Management Issues at Stonehenge, UK: Peter Mason and I-Ling Kuo; 13 Sustainable Development in Tourism: A Proposition for Machupicchu, Peru: Otto Regalado-Pezua and Jesus Arias-Valencia; 14 Managing Visitor Impacts at Lijiang, China: Hilary du Cros ; 15 Managing an urban World Heritage Site: The development of the Cultural Avenue Project in Budapest: Laszlo Puczko and Tamara Ratz; 16 Tourism Development, Empowerment and the Tibetan Minority: Jiuzhaigou National Nature Reserve, China: Li Fung Mei Sarah; 17 World Heritage Sites in the Americas: Dallen J. Timothy and Stephen W. Boyd; 18 World Heritage Listing: The Case of Huangshan (Yellow Mountain), China: Li Fung Mei Sarah and Trevor Sofield; 19 The Neolithic Temples of Malta: Towards a Re-evaluation of Heritage: Nadia Theuma and Rueben Grima; 20 The Rainforest Ways: Managing Tourism in the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia: Jo Mackellar and Ros Derrett; Conclusion; Index
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