Lesson 1 (Heritage Tourism) Flashcards
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A type of tourism that involves exploring a region’s history, culture, and natural environment.
Heritage tourism
Heritage tourism isa type of tourism that involves exploring a?
region’s history, culture, and natural environment.
Heritage tourism includes visiting?
historical sites, museums, and natural areas.
Thisincludes visiting historical sites, museums, and natural areas.
Heritage tourism
What are the 4 Heritage tourism types?
- Cultural heritage tourism
- Historical heritage tourism
- Natural heritage tourism
- Architectural heritage tourism
Focuses on a destination’s cultural aspects, such as art, music, and traditions.
Cultural heritage tourism
Cultural heritage tourism focuses on a destination’s cultural aspects, such as
art, music, and traditions.
Focuses on a destination’s history, such as visiting historical sites, monuments, and battlefields.
Historical heritage tourism
Historical heritage tourism focuses on a destination’s history, such as visiting
historical sites, monuments, and battlefields.
Focuses on a destination’s natural beauty, such as visiting national parks and wildlife reserves.
Natural heritage tourism
Natural heritage tourism focuses on a destination’s natural beauty, such as visiting
national parks and wildlife reserves
Architectural heritage tourism focuses on a destination’s architectural landmarks, such as
historic buildings, churches, and temples.
focuses on a destination’s architectural landmarks, such as historic buildings, churches, and temples.
Architectural heritage tourism
What are the 3 Heritage tourism goals?
- Preservation: Heritage tourism helps preserve cultural and historical resources.
- Economic development: Heritage tourism can contribute to the economic development and sustainability of a region.
- Community engagement: Heritage tourism can help visitors gain insights into the historical and contemporary aspects of a community.
Heritage tourism helps preserve cultural and historical resources.
Preservation
Heritage tourism can contribute to the economic development and sustainability of a region.
Economic development
Heritage tourism can help visitors gain insights into the historical and contemporary aspects of a community.
Community engagement: Heritage tourism can help visitors gain insights into the historical and contemporary aspects of a community.
Three types of sites
- Cultural heritage sites
- Natural heritage sites
- Mixed heritage sites
This sites include hundreds of historic buildings and town sites, important archaeological sites, and works of monumental sculpture or painting.
Cultural heritage sites
Cultural heritage sites includes?
hundreds of historic buildings and town sites, important archaeological sites, and works of monumental sculpture or painting
Natural heritage sites are restricted to those natural areas that?
- Furnish outstanding examples of Earth’s record of life or its geologic processes.
- Provide excellent examples of ongoing ecological and biological evolutionary processes.
- contain natural phenomena that are rare, unique, superlative, or of outstanding beauty, or
- Furnish habitats for rare or endangered animals or plants or are sites of exceptional biodiversity.
These sites contain elements of both natural and cultural significance.
Mixed heritage sites
Mixed heritage sites contain elements of both?
natural and cultural significance
In Mixed heritage sites, what is the ratio of cultural to natural sites on the World Heritage List?
roughly 3 to 1