Visitor Management: Case Studies from World Heritage Sites
Book Details
Author(s)Myra Shackley
PublisherButterworth-Heinemann
ISBN / ASIN0750632798
ISBN-139780750632799
Sales Rank9,664,838
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Visitor Management encompasses tourism, visitor management, heritage and cultural studies, environmental and resource management and landscape studies.
This innovative collection of case studies taken from the world's most significant archaeological and architectural legacies, shows the problems involved with site management. Such sites are extremely attractive to contemporary visitors which poses many problems for site management, notably the need to preserve a delicate balance between interpretation, conservation and the provision of visitor facilities.
This contributed title takes examples from a range of UNESCO World Heritage sites and shows models of good practice looking at the functions of the different organisations involved and the range of variation among sites. The contributors have international expertise and draw on first-hand knowledge at a practical level.
Only case book on the subject
International appeal
This innovative collection of case studies taken from the world's most significant archaeological and architectural legacies, shows the problems involved with site management. Such sites are extremely attractive to contemporary visitors which poses many problems for site management, notably the need to preserve a delicate balance between interpretation, conservation and the provision of visitor facilities.
This contributed title takes examples from a range of UNESCO World Heritage sites and shows models of good practice looking at the functions of the different organisations involved and the range of variation among sites. The contributors have international expertise and draw on first-hand knowledge at a practical level.
Only case book on the subject
International appeal


