World Heritage Sites: Importance and Adverse Effects

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Module code and title: Academic Writing for Business and Management
Module leader: Faria Tofail
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Canterbury Christ Church, University

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Contents
1. World Heritage Site.............................................................................................................................3
1.1 History and Background of World Heritage Site...............................................................................3
1.2 How the Idea of Heritage Sites Started?............................................................................................3
1.3 Types of Heritage Sites......................................................................................................................4
1.4 Selection Process...............................................................................................................................4
1.5 World Heritage List Nominations......................................................................................................5
2. Socio-cultural and economic advantages to a place being declared as a World Heritage Site.............5
2.1 Importance of historical preservation................................................................................................5
3. Adverse impacts of the World Heritage Sites and relate it to the tourism industry..............................6
3.1 World Heritage in Danger..................................................................................................................7
3.2 Recommendations.............................................................................................................................7
4. Conclusions.........................................................................................................................................8
5. References...........................................................................................................................................9

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1. World Heritage Site
World Heritage site, some of the different objects or areas inscribed on the UN (United Nations)
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization/UNESCO World Heritage Record. The sites
tend to be specified as having exceptional global worth within the Convention Concerning the
Protection associated with the Worldwide Natural and Cultural Heritage. It was claimed by the
UN (United Nations) Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1972 as well as
officially got an effect in 1975 right after being ratified by twenty nations around the world. It
possesses a structure for worldwide co-operation in protecting and preserving cultural
destinations as well as natural places around the world (Frey et al., 2013). This report aims to put
a light on the World Heritage Sites, their importance as well as the adverse effects of World
Heritage Sites and recommendations to solve the issues.
1.1 History and Background of World Heritage Site
The idea of World Heritage had been introduced right after World War 2 when among the most
distinctive cultural ancient monuments on the globe, the Ramses-II temple at Abu Simbel, had
been insecure through deterioration throughout the development of the Aswan Dam in Egypt in
the nineties. On the sixteenth Nov 1972, UNESCO followed a conference regarding the World’s
cultural and natural heritage. The conference would aim to secure the locations in the arena of
exceptional global worth that belongs to all humanity (Jokilehto, 2006).
1.2 How the Idea of Heritage Sites Started?
The USA commenced the concept of guarding locations of high natural and cultural relevance. A
White-House convention in 1965 requested for a World Heritage Trust to protect the globe's
outstanding natural as well as beautiful places and historic sites for the current as well as the near
future of the whole world population. The Worldwide Union for Conservation of Nature created
related plans in 1968 that had been introduced in 1972 towards the UN Convention on the
Human Environment in Stockholm. In the World Heritage Panel, signatory nations around the
world are needed to generate as well as send regular data reports to the committee with a
summary of every participating country's implementation regarding the World Heritage