Theme:
3. The Life of Archaeological Heritage in Society
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
The Living Heritage: Archaeological Cultural Routes in the Context of Cultural Tourism Networks
Content:
Archaeological heritage hides a huge potential for the development of cultural tourism. Managed in the right way, it can be transformed into a sustainable cultural resource capable of creating added value to the communities which live in its vicinity. However, successful incorporation of archaeological heritage into cultural tourism flows is hindered by a number of obstacles. Although they are highly specific to every region and site in question, the usual common denominator that binds them is the inability to achieve long term sustainability on a local level. Practice has shown that cultural heritage monuments are often not the only reason why tourists visit a certain location. Therefore, it is important to fit archaeological heritage into the broader tourist experience that a certain region provides and to develop necessary infrastructure that visitors might need. In order to do so, strategic coordination, as well as the development of strong network of compatible partners and stakeholders from complementary fields is needed on local, national and transnational level. One of the more successful approaches of joining cultural heritage, local communities, cultural tourism and sustainable heritage management are the cultural routes, particularly cultural routes operating under the aegis of the Council of Europe.
This session looks to address various ways in which archaeological cultural routes can build, or take part in, strong long-term partner and stakeholder networks, develop tools and approaches capable of creating sustainable cultural tourism products, as well as the issues that arise from undertaking these tasks. The session aims to bring together experts from various fields and disciplines, dedicated to presentation and promotion of archaeological heritage and those dealing with sustainable cultural tourism development, to discuss theoretical models, approaches and examples of good practices in developing new cultural tourism products based on archaeological heritage and creating added value for local communities.
Keywords:
Archaeological cultural heritage, Cultural landscapes, Heritage management, Cultural Tourism, Cultural Routes, Sustainability
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Marta Rakvin (Croatia) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Jacqueline Balen (Croatia) 3,2
Manos Vougioukas (Greece) 4,5
Affiliations:
1. University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
2. Iron Age Danube Route Association
3. Archaeological Museum in Zagreb
4. Pafos Regional Board of Tourism
5. European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN)
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