EDINBURGH WORLD HERITAGE

Edinburgh World Heritage

Edinburgh World Heritage

Executive Summary

This paper explores the interactions in the field of tourism development between the sustainability of tourism activities and the need for planning and management in the Athens of the Rock. The work starts the necessary basic consideration of sustainability as a principle that informs management tourist activities today. Although in reality with high-sounding declarations look unsustainable practices, not why trees should prevent the bigger picture. Therefore, it emphasizes the need for Tourism Sustainability, although the same arguments raised in the context of work from an economic and business, in the sense that harm the environment means in the tourism field territorial kill the goose that lays golden eggs. The paper provides for the gradual assimilation of sustainability in the tourism field at Athens of the Rock, a process still in action, highlighting the major milestones and documents. Then raises the sustainable tourism development as a result of the assimilative process. Understanding the tool for tourism to be sustainable, as well as awareness of the agents, is planning. Subsequently, goes into the planning considerations in tourism, providing items for discussion and reflection. In the course of said diatribe planning interrelate with fundamental items of tourism sustainability (capacity cargo, destination life cycle, service providers' tourist agents, destination competitiveness tourism, etc.

Introduction

Cultural heritage is universal in that every culture has a heritage, but that heritage is unique to each culture or community. A building that may be slated for replacement in one region because it is mundane or out of date may be revered in another due to the cultural meaning attached to the building's heritage. As a result, different preferences for cultural goods arise from the differences in culture. In addition, one rarely hears that we have “too much” cultural heritage; more heritages is universally desired, but protecting and creating cultural heritage is costly. Thus, there are many reasons for the study of the economics and promotional aspects of cultural heritage, including a desire to study the values that people have for cultural heritage as well as to inform the efficient management of cultural heritage assets.

The purpose of writing this paper is to give readers regarding the concept of the importance of cultural heritage and how that cultural heritage can be transformed into earning good revenue not only for the state but also for the organizations that maintaining the heritage. To give the readers a better understanding of the concept, the author selected the Athens of the North, which is the Edinburgh's new town and is considered to be the best and largest preserved model of the Georgian town planning anywhere all around the United Kingdom (Edinburgh World Heritage, 2012).

Importance of Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage includes stories, collections, and other artefacts that are used to define and convey the specific attributes of a culture. Thus, cultural heritage is the set of tangible and intangible assets that help to uniquely define a community or nation. Vaughan (1984) indicated that a nation's cultural heritage included three distinct types: the artistic, the natural, and the historical. Some heritage assets are constructed; these include architecture, archaeological sites, ...