The Politics of World Heritage: Negotiating Tourism and ConservationDavid Harrison, Michael Hitchcock This collection of papers discuss World Trade Law and focus on the contested nature of World Heritage at sites as diverse as The Netherlands, Ellis Island (USA), post-colonial Mesoamerica, Cambodia, Fiji, Kyrgyzstan, and Vietnam. In addition, eight research notes explore heritage interpretation in the USA, Lebanon, Peru, Indonesia, Singapore, Tasmania and India. |
Contents
Huddled Masses Yearning to Buy Postcards | 23 |
Landscape Memory and Heritage New Year Celebrations | 66 |
Levuka Fiji Contested Heritage? | 90 |
World Trade Law Culture Heritage and Tourism | 103 |
An Observation Station for Culture | 119 |
Commentaries | 132 |
Including the Outsiders The Contribution of Guides | 146 |
Creating and Recreating Heritage in Singapore | 160 |
Elephanta Island World Heritage Cultural | 176 |
Common terms and phrases
Accessed Angkor Annals of Tourism argued Asian Becharre Bishkek Cambodia Cancún cedar Central Asia centre Chouf colonial complex conservation context Correspondence Any correspondence cultural heritage cultural tourism culture and heritage destination economic Elephanta Elephanta Island Ellis Island environment environmental ethnic groups European example Fiji Museum Fiji's forest global guides heri heritage tourism identity immigration impact important indigenous Fijians involved issues Ke´te Kesu Khmer Kyrgyz Kyrgyzstan landscape Lebanon Levuka London London Metropolitan University Manas Mayan monuments Mumbai National Park Service National Trust natural nomination organisations Ovalau Pacific political population preservation programme promote protection region residents role Singapore Singapore's social souvenirs stakeholders sustainable Suva tage temples tion tourism development Tourism Research town traditional UNESCO University Press Vietnam visitors Wadden Sea World Heritage Committee World Heritage Convention World Heritage List World Heritage Sites World Heritage status world trade