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. 

On the web:

• 6e séminaire de la Chaire UNESCO – IREST/EIREST