Naslov
Heritage Urbanism as a Planning Model for Sustainable Cultural Tourism: The Cases of Cockatoo Island, Australia and St. Catherine Island, Croatia

Autori
Mrđa, Ana ; Howitt, Richie ; Bojanić Obad Šćitaroci, Bojana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Local identity and tourism management on world heritage sites - 5th UNESCO UNITWIN conference / - Coimbra, 2017, 45-45

Skup
5th UNESCO UNITWIN conference

Mjesto i datum
Coimbra, Portugal, 18.04.2017. - 22.04.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Cultural Heritage, Heritage Urbanism, Sustainable Tourism Planning, UNESCO WHS

Sažetak
The paper examines tension between the ideas of cultural heritage and tourism and advocates the need for a sustainable approach to tourism planning in heritage sites. The paper argues that heritage urbanism offers a new model for sustainable tourism planning - a means of achieving improved balance between economic health, social equity, environmental responsibility and cultural vitality – by enhancing the role of place-based identity in tourism as a local development tool, stressing that the controlled active use of cultural heritage in tourism can bring about a positive response to global competitiveness and development of a tourist site, regarding its positive influence on destination recognition and heritage revitalization. It investigates the spatial elements of highly valued and highly vulnerable areas that can be included in the identification and actualization of the tourism potential as a cultural heritage places. Three challenging issues in linking heritage and tourism from the heritage urbanism point of view are pointed out: 1) the criteria for protection of cultural heritage places considering uniqueness, authenticity and capability as key factors, 2) the criteria for planning cultural heritage places taking into consideration all stake holders – professionals, locals and tourists and 3) the criteria for managing cultural heritage places that provides heritage- tourism benefits and takes into consideration scenario planning and strategic forecasting. Cultural heritage places have extensive life cycles with the need to perceive past and anticipate future longer term trends and accordingly functions in very long term dynamics. Therefore, the verification of the heritage urbanism model is set in the dialog between the cases of Cockatoo Island, Australia – UNESCO World Heritage Site and St. Catherine Island, Croatia – potential future cultural and natural resource. Both sites are brownfield areas with unique historical, architectural, anthropological and sociological significance and the associated symbolic values. For both, enormous efforts have supported development of comprehensive and sustainable land use strategies which introduce new responsible tourism approaches that offer increasing recognition of the importance of culture and heritage for both tourist and resident motivation, behavior and experiences. The aim of this paper is to balance the tension between the preservation and change of the existing heritage touristic places and to make a contribution to the advancement of promoting and protecting cultural heritage, cultural heritage tourism and urban regeneration of the cultural heritage destination and to make a contribution to both cultural heritage and tourism scientific areas. This work has been supported by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project HERU-2032.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam

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