Heritage Listed Sites- Should It Be Open to Public or Kept Private
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Heritage Listed Sites - Should it be Open to Public or Kept Private
Sienna Ko
Assignment: Personal Project
Due Date: 20 Jan 2013
Did you know that there are 962 properties listed as heritage sites in the world? As we aware the Kakadu National Park, Uluru, Shark Bay and Great Barrier Reef in
Australia are also listed as world heritage sites. However, there are currently 38 properties listed in danger because of various reasons; unable to support with technical, scientific expertise in some areas or “pollution, uncontrolled urbanization, unchecked tourism” (Amanpour, 2012) in many cases. UNESCO (2013) states that the Tourism impacted on the sites greatly since “the world heritage properties are among the most popular and heavily promoted tourist destinations in many countries. The dramatic current and projected growth of international and domestic travel represents both challenges and opportunities for World Heritage Sites and surrounding populations. Poorly managed tourism at a site can pose major threats to heritage in all of its forms and degrade the quality of the visitor experience”.
For instance, The Great Barrier Reef was declared as a world heritage area in 1981, there have been more than two million people visited the reef each year and generated more than “$AU2 billion in tourism dollar, making tourism a major earner for the north-eastern Australian economy” and also gave negative impact that damaged fragile corals by reef walking, polluted in the water with human activities not only fuels from boats but associated with ”run -off sweat and suntan lotion” affected on the reef environment (Australia Government, 2007).
There is a question arose for the heritage listed sites whether it should be open to public or kept private in order to protect and conserve them.
It is a controversial topic on the public access to the heritage listed sites; some people may say that the sites should be kept in private in order to
Heritage Listed Sites - Should it be Open to Public or Kept Private
Sienna Ko
Assignment: Personal Project
Due Date: 20 Jan 2013
Did you know that there are 962 properties listed as heritage sites in the world? As we aware the Kakadu National Park, Uluru, Shark Bay and Great Barrier Reef in
Australia are also listed as world heritage sites. However, there are currently 38 properties listed in danger because of various reasons; unable to support with technical, scientific expertise in some areas or “pollution, uncontrolled urbanization, unchecked tourism” (Amanpour, 2012) in many cases. UNESCO (2013) states that the Tourism impacted on the sites greatly since “the world heritage properties are among the most popular and heavily promoted tourist destinations in many countries. The dramatic current and projected growth of international and domestic travel represents both challenges and opportunities for World Heritage Sites and surrounding populations. Poorly managed tourism at a site can pose major threats to heritage in all of its forms and degrade the quality of the visitor experience”.
For instance, The Great Barrier Reef was declared as a world heritage area in 1981, there have been more than two million people visited the reef each year and generated more than “$AU2 billion in tourism dollar, making tourism a major earner for the north-eastern Australian economy” and also gave negative impact that damaged fragile corals by reef walking, polluted in the water with human activities not only fuels from boats but associated with ”run -off sweat and suntan lotion” affected on the reef environment (Australia Government, 2007).
There is a question arose for the heritage listed sites whether it should be open to public or kept private in order to protect and conserve them.
It is a controversial topic on the public access to the heritage listed sites; some people may say that the sites should be kept in private in order to