World Heritage Sites: Understanding and Importance

This presentation discusses the importance of World Heritage Sites and their significance in a country's growth and development. It specifically focuses on the Tower of London as a World Heritage Site and explains the reasons behind its selection. The presentation also covers the criteria for selecting a site as a World Heritage Site and the nomination process. References are provided for further reading.

World Heritage Sites

Table Of Content
 Introduction
 Understanding of the world heritage sites
 Choose one World Heritage site and explain the reason behind for choosing
this site
 Explain the reason that this place was selected as the World Heritage Site
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
 Business management refers to the organisation and coordination of
business activities and it basically focuses on the planning, organising and
analysing the activities of business which are required to manage into
efficient manner.
 Business management is important because it provides the skills and
academic knowledge in order to pursue the global career opportunities.
 In the present report, Tower of London is taken into consideration.

Understanding of the world heritage
sites
 World heritage site refers to the area or landmark with legal
protection by an international convention which is administered by
the UNESCO which is known as the United Nations educational,
cultural and scientific organisation.
 These are the sites which are basically judged for natural and
cultural heritage on the world wide basis which is considered to be
the outstanding value to humanity.

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 According to the data, it has been observed that until the year of 2004
there were six sets of criteria for cultural heritage and four for the natural
heritage.
 UNESCO has modified it in the year of 2005 and now it has one set of
ten criteria.
 There is a kind of nomination process for World Heritage site where the
country have to first identify their important natural and cultural sites in
the document which is known as the Tentative List.

Choose one World Heritage site and
explain the reason behind for choosing
this site
 A world heritage site is a kind of cultural and natural site which demonstrates
the significance or influence into the global context.
 Tower Of London is considered as the World Heritage Site and this has been
selected in this category.
 The tower of London considered under the category of World Heritage Site
because it has outstanding Universal value for certain cultural qualities for
both the purposes which include protection and control of the city of London.

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 There is also one more reason for choosing this site because it is
the perfect example of the late 11th century which is innovative
Norman military architecture.
 The property also considers under the category of medieval
fortress palace which has been evolved from 11 th to 16 th
centuries.

Explain the reason that this place was
selected as the World Heritage Site
 The Tower Of London was selected as the World Heritage Site
because UNESCO has given various reasons to select any place into
the category of World Heritage Site.
 According to UNESCO, if the site has historical, cultural, scientific
and other significance as well then that site will be considered under
the category of World Heritage Site.

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 These are the main reasons due to which the site has been considered
under the category of World Heritage Site.
 So at the universal level it has been observed that World Heritage Sites
are important because they not only addresses the beauty of that
particular place but also maintained the history of that particular place
from several years.
 There are certain parameters which have been included for the selection
of World Heritage Site.

Conclusion
The above stated report concludes that World Heritage Sites are very important
for nay country's growth and development into positive manner. It has been
concluded that without having World Heritage Sites its like no importance and
significance of any historical and important place. It has been determined that
selection of World Heritage Site should include certain criteria's which needs to be
fulfilled into appropriate manner. Without approval of UNESCO, there is no site
who considered as the World Heritage Site.

References
 Canale and et.al., 2019. UNESCO World Heritage sites and tourism
attractiveness: The case of Italian provinces. Land use policy, 85, pp.114-120.
 Cigna and et.al., 2018. Geological hazards in the UNESCO World Heritage
sites of the UK: From the global to the local scale perspective. Earth-Science
Reviews, 176, pp.166-194.
 Dans, E. P. and González, P. A., 2019. Sustainable tourism and social value at
World Heritage Sites: Towards a conservation plan for Altamira, Spain. Annals
of Tourism Research, 74, pp.68-80.
 Jimura, T., 2018. World Heritage Sites: Tourism, local communities and
conservation activities. CABI.

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