Publicomos

Réf.

43712

Type

project report

Titre

Cultural tourism and visitor management framework: a framework for guiding cultural heritage tourism and visitor management in destinations hosting World Heritage

Langues

English

Auteurs institutionnels

Organization of World Heritage Cities / ICOMOS ICTC (International Committee on Cultural Tourism)

Lieu de publication

Québec

Pays de publication

Canada

Maison d'édition

Organization of World Heritage Cities

Date

2023

Pages

91 p.

Mots-clés

cultural tourism / tourism management / World Heritage / sustainable tourism / recommendations / charters / visitor flow / overvisiting / local communities / climate change / case studies / historic towns / tourism impact

Pays mentionnés

Ecuador / Philippines / Poland / Spain / United States

Monuments et sites

Cordoba, Spain / Cuenca, Ecuador / Kraków, Poland / San Antonio Missions, United States / Vigan, Philippines

N° Patrimoine mondial

313 / 863 / 29 / 1466 / 502

Résumé en anglais

COVID-19 has demonstrated the vulnerability of many tourism dependent communities in and around World Heritage. Many of these communities were already dealing with environmental, social and economic challenges, including the impacts of overtourism. UNESCO's World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Recovery survey (2021), indicates that the overall reduction in tourism-related revenue across World Heritage sites declined from USD$ 4.26 billion in 2019, to USD$ 57.38 million in 2020, and further down to USD$ 28.9 million in the first half of 2021. Disruptions, however, also present opportunities for transformation. Many World Heritage sites have begun to explore and adopt new ways in which their tangible and intangible cultural heritage assets can rejuvenate tourism while enhancing community resilience.The Cultural Tourism and Visitor Management (CT&VM) Framework represents an integrated approach that aligns and fuses the International Council on Monuments and Sites' (ICOMOS) International Cultural Heritage Tourism Charter (2022) (the Cultural Tourism Charter), UNESCO's Visitor Management Assessment and Strategy Tool (VMAST) and the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG5). The Framework applies these tools to identify and frame different aspects of cultural tourism that can benefit local communities, protect a site's Outstanding Universal Value (OUV), and localize the UNSDGs. The CT&VM Framework specifically supports a systematic and inclusive approach to formulate recommendations for the elaboration and implementation of strategies for adaptive and proactive site and destination management, enhancing community resilience and heritage protection. This report presents the CT&VM Framework, its development, and how it can be applied to guide cultural heritage tourism and visitor management across destinations/cities hosting World Heritage.

Document joint

ctvm-framework-report-final.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)