Living cultural landscapes and the challenge of tourism

Published on 27 November 2015 - Updated 14 December 2015
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In collaboration with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the France-UNESCO Convention, the Association of French World Heritage Properties and ICOMOS France, UNESCO’s “Culture, Tourism and Development” Chair at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University / IREST–EIREST is holding its 6th seminar on Tuesday 15 December 2015, on the theme “Living cultural landscapes and the challenge of tourism”.

The specificities of areas constituting cultural landscapes complicate the question of what makes a tourist destination: such sites as inscribed on the World Heritage List do not necessarily have any obvious coherence as destinations at the time of their inscription. 

Furthermore, the notion of “living cultural landscape” implies the existence of productive activities whose sustainability is a necessary condition of inscription

How does this tally with tourism activities that may contribute to aestheticisation and museumisation of sites and hamper other economic activities? 

What tourism governance should be implemented in order to align actors with differing objectives? 

How do you facilitate encounters between a site’s permanent inhabitants and those who are only staying there temporarily as tourists? 

The morning session will pay special attention to wine and vine landscapes. The afternoon will seek to extend questioning to all cultural landscapes

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