Impact of Ownership on Management of Heritage and Cultural Sites

This article discusses the impact of ownership on the management of heritage and cultural sites. It explores the roles and responsibilities of private organizations, government organizations, and collaborations in managing these sites. The article also highlights the positive and negative impacts of different types of ownership on these sites.

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3.1 Impact of ownership on management of heritage and cultural sites
There are many different types of ownership in management
of heritage and cultural sites it is just because of their various
locations and due to the various collaboration in which they
operate. Roles and responsibilities also varies due to the type
of ownerships. In present time period tourism is most
profitable business and it has more profits. The difference in
location of attraction sites leads to creation of different public
and private organisations. Normally the heritage and cultural
sites are managed and operated with the help of government
bodies and by not for profit organisations but because of the
various high valued assets, which requires important care and
preservation private sectors are introduced. The impacts of
various types of ownerships on heritage and cultural sites is
being described as follows: -
Government organisations: - Under this type of
ownership all the initiatives and control measures are taken by
the government and government authorities. These
government organisation conducts various activities and
project and they also bring international experts from different
countries in order to improve and develop heritage and
cultural sites of country. The undertaking of projects and
heritage and cultural sites have some positive and negative
impacts. The government bodies involved in management of
places supports in allowing access to large number of visitors
and provides wider scope to travellers towards learning and
understanding the heritage of country within less cost for
visits. It has negative impacts because the government have
less fund and they sometime also neglect effective
management which hinders the development of sites.
Private organisations: - The heritage and cultural
sites of countries which lies under the hands of private
owners are completely controlled and managed by the
owners them self they have complete authority over it. The
KOSOVO is one of the best example of a private
organisation which controls and manages the heritage and
cultural sites of United Kingdom. These organisations have
significant positive impact over attraction sites of country.
These firms significantly support in effective management of
valuable assets and antiques which assist in conserving and
preventing historical places. The private firms are best as
they invest more funds which is goods in making
development and new technologies are adopted by them
through which they can manage visitors crowd effectively
and attracts large number of tourists. Apart from all these
positive impact it also has some negative impacts over it.
These organisation limits the accessibility of tourist as they
charge more amount of entry fees for visiting the sites. Also,
sometime they may focus on their personal interest rather
than values and beliefs of travellers which may demotivate
them.
Collaboration: - It is referred to merging of two
different organisations and operating together to provide
services with common objectives. In management and
control of heritage and cultural sites of country collaboration
of public and private organisation is highly noticed. These
collaborated firms jointly work together towards
development of attraction sites. They conduct various
restoration projects at different levels which supports in
attracting large number of tourists towards the places.
All the above mentioned are some of positive and
negative impacts over heritage and cultural sites of country
by different types of ownerships. The high competition
prevailing in tourism sectors directly affects countries
economic factors. In competition if government organisation
is not likely to earn profits out of their services it will
negative impact over private institutions by not giving them
any scope in gaining competitive advantages.

3.2 Roles and responsibilities of organisations in heritage and cultural industry
In United Kingdom, there are large number of
government departments, public organisations, non-
government organisation and voluntary authorities. The
Historic Building and Commission for England is one of
the most significant non-government organisation which
plays important roles and responsibility in preservation
and maintenance of different historical landscapes and
archaeological places.
The National Trust' is another organisation which
functions in order to prevent and protect historical
buildings, antique arts, pictures and antique furniture’s.
This trust also plays significant responsibility in
conservation of lives of plants and animals. But, role of
organisations in functioning varies. For example, total
amount of funding in order to maintaining and
preserving sites by government institutions is completely
different from the private organisation. The government
organisation has more amount of funds as compared to
the private one. Thus it is important for private sector to
be efficient in their functioning which means that they
must operate their activities effectively without making
any time and money wastages. Apart for the significant
use of funds available, private firm has to follow more
rules and regulation as compared to the government
bodies in operation and management of heritage and
cultural sites.
Department of culture media and sports is an another
best example of institution which is involved in the
management of heritage and cultural tourism of United
Kingdom. The following institution is effectively
managed publicly within England which plays
important role in promoting cultural and heritage
tourism of UK. The media is mainly responsible for
internet and broadcasting related problems. These
departments also play significant role in Olympic and
Paralympics games and directly supports in developing
the digital economy of United Kingdom. In preserving
historic monuments effective role is played by the
following organisation.
Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) was founded in
United Kingdom under the National Lottery Act 1993
which came into existence in year 1994. They
significant works on development of policies in order to
safeguard nations heritage and cultural sites. It is also
responsible for development of communities and
individuals of UK and also raises significant amount of
funds from National Lottery. Apart from this it supports
in increasing economy of heritage and invest funds for
protection of heritage sites of UK and attracts large
number of tourists in country.
English Heritage is a charity trust which is
registered under government and look after countries
heritage and cultural resources. The Trust consist of
around collection of 400 historic monuments and
architectures. It is a public firm which functions in
order to preserve the nations natural environment which
is undertaken by British government. It mainly focuses
on protection of archaeological monuments and
supports in attracting large number of tourists towards
it by providing certain promotional offers. A well-
known heritage site named as Stonehenge in country is
only a part of English Heritage.