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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Heritage sites"”.
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The artist as historyteller within museum and heritage sites
… of the artist as historyteller within museum and heritage sites. I coin the hybrid term historytelling (between storytelling and historiography) to situate my practice as both an artistic and a historiographic practice. The works utilise photography, film, installation, and locative technologies …
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The Literary Heritagescape: Translating Literary Settings into Heritage Sites
… the particular nature of setting-based literary heritage sites. These sites are in a unique position because of their connection to fiction. Three case studies are used to represent a range of setting-based literary heritage sites: Ashdown Forest, The Sherlock Holmes Museum, and Green Gables …
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Tourist Satisfaction with Cultural / Heritage Sites: The Virginia Historic Triangle
Cultural/heritage tourism is the fastest growing segment of the tourism industry because there is a trend toward an increased specialization among tourists. This trend is evident in the rise in the volume of tourists who seek adventure, culture, history, archaeology and interaction with local …
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Creative placemaking in heritage sites. The case of Wudadao, Tianjin, China.
… has been adopted globally as a strategy for heritage-led urban revitalization. However, this approach is increasingly critiqued for triggering side effects such as gentrification, displacement, and the erosion of community identity. While most research exists on its application in Western, …
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Modelling visitor experience: a case study from World Heritage Sites, Thailand.
… Visitor Experience: A Case Study from World Heritage Sites, Thailand. The research is conducted in three historical parks in Thailand by using an inductive approach of Grounded Theory. This aims to propose a model of visitor experience of heritage. It focuses on experience consumption related …
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An Ethnography of Voodoo Tourism and Heritage Sites in New Orleans, Lousiana
… presented and experienced in various tourism and heritage sites within New Orleans in the present moment. A variety of visual representations, verbal narratives and multimedia performances were documented and analyzed through participant observation. Current tourism relies on the city’s ghost …
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Spatio-Temporality and Digital Tourism in UK Industrial UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites
… and potential approaches to digital cultural heritage tourism. Through a comparative case study methodology, it considers the implications of digital virtualities in the context of four industrial World Cultural Heritage Sites, namely the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, the Cornwall and West …
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The adaptive capacity of the management of cultural heritage sites to climate change
… adaptive capacity in the field of cultural heritage management. Climatic changes have potentially serious implications for the historic environment, which is itself a non-renewable resource. Cultural heritage sites can be particularly sensitive to severe weather events and to changes in …
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Global heritage cities : managing complexity of cultural world heritage sites in global cities
… cities that are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which are referred as global heritage cities hereafter. In this rapidly globalising world that is market-driven, the binary approach of managing change in historic cities while promoting their sustainable development and transmission …
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Creating 3D models of cultural heritage sites with terrestrial laser scanning and 3D imaging
… made the digital preservation of cultural heritage sites an affordable technique to produce accurate and detailed 3D-computermodel representations for any kind of 3D-objects, such as buildings, infrastructure, and even entire landscapes. However, one of the key issues with this technique is …
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A disaster risk assessment model for the conservation of cultural heritage sites in Melaka Malaysia
… efforts to reduce the exposure of Cultural Heritage Sites (CHSs) to Disaster Risk (DR). However, a complicated issue these efforts face is that of ‘estimation’ whereby no standardised unit exist for assessing the effects of Cultural Heritage (CH) exposed to DR as compared to other exposed …
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Developing the visitor appeal of Orkney’s Norse heritage sites: A route to more sustainable tourism?
… at destinations, and the role of under-visited heritage sites to increase dispersal and therefore sustainability at destination level.<br/>It does so with reference to the Orkney Islands in the north of Scotland. This archipelago has experienced a dramatic growth in tourism in recent years, and …
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Calamities, Catastrophes, and Cataclysms: Current Trends in International Disaster Risk Management Practices for Cultural Heritage Sites
… in recent years have focused on cultural heritage protection in response to climate change and natural disasters. Despite an established network of institutions united in preserving the world’s cultural heritage, risk management planning for heritage properties remains in its infancy. This …
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Exploring the tourism potential of heritage sites : the case of the Botha Bothe Plateau in Lesotho
… in the area, through the management of its heritage resources. The main objectives of the study are: (a) to examine the way the Botha Bothe Plateau has been managed as a cultural landscape in order to evaluate how much the local communities are benefiting from this important Lesotho heritage …
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Identification of liberation heritage sites at Lamontville and its linkage to the KwaZulu-Natal Liberation Heritage Route
… and conclusion. Chapter Two : is where the term heritage will be defined and discussed at length. The importance of heritage and preservation of history in general will be discussed and data about Lamontville will be collected. Hostels as the first form of accommodation which was available to …
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Enhancing Cultural Heritage in an Impact Assessment Process: Analysis of Experiences from the UK World Heritage Sites
This three-year PhD study looks at heritage performance in impact assessment (IA) practices, analysing the urban planning context and management experiences of selected urban World Heritage (WH) sites in the UK. The research develops recommendations for assessing the impact of plans, programmes and …
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Transforming industrial heritage sites in major Chinese cities : reintegrating Minsheng Wharf into the life of the city
… grappling with a number of preserved industrial heritage sites in major urban centers such as Beijing and Shanghai. The People's Republic of China has implemented policy through a culture-led approach in preservation and reuse, resulting in artist communities, museums, and creative offices. …
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Digital documentation for integrated hazard assessment and sustainable management at dynamic natural heritage sites : the Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast World Heritage Site
… and animals depend. The capacity of natural heritage sites to change, often unpredictably, is one of their most fascinating features, but it also predisposes them to human influence from schemes which interfere with their natural dynamism (SNH, 2014). It also makes the sustainable management …
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