The Impact of Tourism on Cultural Heritage: Ownership and Security

The report underscores that securing cultural heritage is essential for economic expansion, with tourism playing a pivotal role in GDP enhancement. Different ownership models in the tourism industry, including public-private partnerships and independent charitable organizations, contribute to effective cultural preservation. These structures enable sustainable development by attracting international visitors, thereby increasing governmental revenue through tourism.

Heritage and Culture Tourism

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Covered in Poster ...........................................................................................................1
INRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................1
1.2 Discuss potential conflicts in conservation of heritage and culture tourism....................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Purpose of heritage and culture attractions in meeting the needs of different customers 3
3.1 Evaluate the impact of several type of partnerships for management of heritage culture
and sites..................................................................................................................................5
3.2 analysing and examining responsibilities of firms and heritage in cultural sectors .......6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
4.1 Methods and media used for interpretation within heritage and culture industry ...........7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Tourism sector is fast prospering business in all over the world. This helps in lending
different and types of travelling which includes joy, educational tours, foreign country travelling,
gathering information about historical sites . There are various private institutions and authorities
who are trying to take major steps which help in pulling number of tourists towards these
attractive places. Heritage and cultural locations are very important for experience locations
with historical values and understand their ethics and beliefs. That is why heritage and cultural
management is essential for company administration who mainly concentrate on them in proper
and clear manner. This report is based upon cultural and heritage management in which the case
of Barcelona and Venice where heritage and culture tourism management became important
(Blumenfield, 2013 ). The other incumbent value of heritage and culture are attractiveness
towards tourism industry. The government's main obligation and work is to make satisfy their
customers and fulfil their all demands and needs. Various institutions who work for the goodness
of heritage and cultural tourism management who know their responsibility and roles towards
them. Report contains all the methods and tools which are used for accomplishment of set
objectives and targets are discussed.
TASK 1
1.1 Covered in Poster
INRODUCTION
Cultural heritage is defined as the experience which the visitors gain after visiting different
destination. London, is having different tourist spot attract a large number of tourist from all
over the world. Buckingham Palace , British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum are some
of the major attractive point for which the London city. It is also said that there are several other
tourist points and attractive heritage which attract a large number of tourist every year which
helped the government in attraction a large amount of revenue from tourism industry .
Timeline -There is a framework or a specific timeline regarding growth, prosperity and
development of the whole cultural and heritage sector. Initially British government do not give
any protection and conservations of any artefacts but after 1950 their grow started.
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1940-1946- during these years first body of tourism was formed to support and protect cultural
heritage like UK museum, arts and libraries and historical monuments of a country. In those
initial times only British government was taking initiatives for raising funds for that
purpose.
1946-1990 – for encouraging the art and music in all over he country council was formed which
used the funds given by government fro promotion of heritage of the country.
1990-1997 – with this kind of support from the government many operation gates have been
generated to generate income from cultural and heritage sector. This process is very effected
hence has been adopted as major area for growth and development of countries cultural and
heritage industry.
1997-2000 – In this phase they emphasis on promotional activities and enhancing talent of
people of the country. This organisation has has the responsibilities to manage all the sports
and cultural talent which helps in outsourcing talent of individuals.
Growth and Development - Heritage and culture has started way back in 1841 , it was first
founded by Thomas Cook by its first tourism program to Egypt . This industry need development
and growth in every locations and area and in current scenario it is regarded as best industry with
very high growth rate.
Attractive – Globally UK is regarded as a very attractive place. Places like Big Ben , forts and
other themes of a country. Besides the attractiveness the city provides several other benefits and
facilities to every class of customer. For promotions of different heritage and culture government
will have to take certain initiatives and obligations for construction of effective roads and
transportation which helps in attracting more travellers and adventurers in coming years. Cultural
heritage -there are 29 attractive tourist places out of them 23 have historical background. They
add values and beliefs which helps to attract more visitors e.g. Maritime Greenwich and
Botanical garden.
Natural – In all over UK there are 4 different natural places which are within the country's
boundary. Places like forests, national parks , Gough Island , woodlands etc.. the UK is very rich
in different types of varieties of flora and fauna compared to anywhere inn the world like black
rat and cats and all the visitors were guides with VR applications.
Heritage and culture - through survey it has been analysed that the tourism sector gives large
amount of move to the government which plays a major role in boosting economy of the
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country due to this government also plays an important role in conservation of heritage sites of
nation. For developing this sector it is also important from the local communities and people to
help the government.
1.2 Discuss potential conflicts in conservation of heritage and culture tourism
Tourism is a profound process which includes many dimensions that contains political, social
economical, ecological, biophysical which support natural and cultural exercise. Political
conflict may arise between the two government due to lack of presentation and campaign.
Tourism sector directly collects funds and foreign currency amount. Ignoring these issues
government will have to take corrective steps which help in growth and development of
tourism industry. The priority of this industry is to remove aggression reconciliation between
two countries Venice and Barcelona . It has the first approach that take spot in community elite
group, midway. Efficacious leading help in developing positive quality which can help in
changing. Barcelona demand better management and also postulate to adopt modern
technologies and techniques with effective and efficient thought.
The prima struggle is that there are less number of display and cause done by Spain
authorities and they require to solved it seemly. The city people believed that structure will
change and provide big issue on the conventional building of the places and it directly impacts
the USP of the country. Barcelona lacks in conserving and preserving wildlife and natural
resources of that area. Therefore, this leads to formulation of various conservation policies and
establishment of sanctuaries and national parks. Government are now centring on partitioning
the battle and government is also planning to handsome amount of in these locations in order to
force large number of traveller in coming time period.
TASK 2
2.1 Purpose of heritage and culture attractions in meeting the needs of different customers
This is a tuff job to prevent established heritage and culture in correct manner. It contains
different types of motives which usually have several unique components that force ample
amount of travellers towards it. The heritage and culture of any place plays an indispensable
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function in identifying the need and desires of different visitors and customers who came from
various places. There are three notable and fantastic places of UK which is discussed below:
British Museum- British museum which is dedicated to human account, art, society and
termed as heart of London city. Museum subsist in around 8 millions physical object aggregation
that symbolize the story of existence of human from past to the present time period. This was
founded in 1753 and contain ample group of scientists and physician namely Sir Hans Sioans
(Rizzo , 2011). There are numerous well known places like: Mummy of Ginger from Gebelein,
Nile god Hapy, and various other destinations. In this museum. There is a huge library which is
located in same building. In regard of given information, it is demonstrated that museum is
meeting all the needful aims and desires of various customers. In week end, tourists who are
resident of UK country visit this museum as it provide recreation to them.
Queen's House- Queen's house is among the first classical building to be constructed in
UK located in Greenwich, London. It is considered one of the essential structure in British
history. It is owned by Royal Museums Greenwich and was completed in 383 years ago(1635).
Its architecture is based upon Inigo Jones and majorly displays portraits and maritime paintings.
This is the strong attractive force for the tourists as they visit this place with their families and
friends to enjoy scenic beauty. In current time, its main attractions are exceptional art collection
which includes exclusive work by Turner, Hogarth, Reynolds and Gainsborough.
National Maritime Museum- It is the largest museum in whole world, which was
established 81 years ago in 1937. This museum highlights the apprehension of British cultural,
political, social and economical aspects and its consequences over the world. The major
attractive force for the travellers contains German Naval Academy, flags and paintings of ship
models. The building upgrades frequently which allow visitors to enjoy the natural beauty of that
place. Tourists visit any historical place in order to refresh their minds and enjoy leisure time.
For this, they always wanted to spent their free period of time visiting those places which soothes
their eyes and provide them relief.
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TASK 3
3.1 Evaluate the impact of several type of partnerships for management of heritage culture and
sites.
There are various factors which helps in playing important role in controlling as well as
management of cultural places all over the countries. Apart fro this cultural heritages also tend to
remain in relations to authorised voluntary organisation. There are certain ownerships which are
described below
Private ownership- in this type all the important decisions are taken by owners. Their aim is to
attract a large number of tourist towards the attractive and popular locations. Their core aim is to
protect the culture heritage and making of cultural destinations.
`Political- it is responsibilities of authorities to protect the cultural heritages for doing this they
undertakes various tasks regularly which helps in providing historical value in the country
government enact strategies and which helps to control and increase economic growth. They also
have a group of experts advice them in improving the environment of cultural and heritage
places.
Collaboration- it is a activity where a private organisation and government goals comes together
for a specific goals in making heritage secure. They work collectively for raising culture and
heritage of a specific location (Agnoletti, 2014). It has been observed an effective
communication between the government organisation in UK has seen a drastic growth in
organisation.
Institutional - the locations are controlled by private institutions and they work collectively to
achieve a target. e.g. Kosovo is known for having a large database of cultural heritage by
establishment of different association of project in doing so they are getting a large investments
and supports from different countries.
Apart from positive impact it also have some negative effects like the competitive environment
among different affect the environment. Also dependent on willingness and investments , if the
government is not willing to invest then it will directly affect the business of private tourism
organisation. All the private organisation not only try to maximise their profit but they also try to
build their image in the market (Timothy,2012). For doing so they use certain tools and
innovative techniques which helps in enhancing their services. The profit generation is
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dependent on the count of tourist who visit the country as well as by managing the heritage
which will help in prospering of old business and setting of new ones. It is important to conserve
and protect values of sites which helps in attracting more visitor to those places.
3.2 analysing and examining responsibilities of firms and heritage in cultural sectors
The important role the organisation plays relate to cultural and heritage are related to
preservation, negotiation and maintenance of cultural heritages. The firms plays a very decisive
role in boosting the tourism industry within the country . Development of this sector will
provide benefits to domestic and national people. There are some role and responsibilities which
are discussed :
National trust – it is regarded as a very important factor of an organisation. They helps in
protecting the integrity of of cultural heritage in all over the country. They plays an important
role in protecting natural beauty of heritages as well as maintaining their values .they are also
liable to protect culture and environment in a proper manner.
English heritage - it is a registered national heritage of a country. This trust comprises of more
than 400 monuments and historical buildings. It is a public organisation under the British
Government who works in securing environment of nations(Little, 2012 ). They helps in
providing services and security to old buildings and enact planning for promotional and
advertisement activities which helps in attracting more tourist their sites and places. The
organisation is provides with funds from British government which helps inn enhancing culture
and beauty of place in an effective way .
Heritage Lottery Fund- it was formed under National Lotter Act 1993 and starts its operation in
1994. The major role they plays in making effective strategies and plans regarding security and
protection of these monuments ( Keitumetse, 2012). Heritage lottery fund takes fund from
national lottery and makes proper publicity of development of society. The charity amount helps
in assisting in development and restructure of damage monuments. Investments are planned
and distributed in such a way that all the heritages get adequate amount to develop.
Department of culture,media and sport – this department is located in United Kingdom which
have duties to boost the sports, culture and media in the country. Usually media are focussed
internet and broadcasting services. They are responsible for handling tourism as well as making
innovative ideas for flourish of business. In 2012 Olympics games and Paralympic games this
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department played a key role in improving and assisting in technology. This department also
have list and details regarding the historical places and planning for maintenance of ancient
models, which are different for Government art collection and commercialism licence of product.
These chances have help the organisation to grow rapidly (Giaccardi, 2012). They are also
making rules and guidance for for the working of the tourism industry. This department has
managed to control all of sports, role of media monitoring of travellers travelling in these
places. Apart from the protection of heritage sites it is very important for them to protect flora
and fauna specially endangered and extinction species as they also play a huge role in attracting
tourists, researchers and scholars for their studies. The collective guidelines will help in
controlling, monitoring and formulating plans which will benefit the organisation as well as
country .
TASK 4
4.1 Methods and media used for interpretation within heritage and culture industry
To visit any heritage location or museum, it is necessary to realize the creation about
these places. This helps in investigating and diffusing consciousness, which is affiliated to
heritage and culture places (Cuccia ,2011). It assists in getting help in investigation and
spreading aid to measure these cultures in healthier style(Blumenfield2013). There are various
media and methods available which is adopted by the industry to explain the importance of
various concepts. Representation is essential in three diverse steps within the context of cultural
sectors. Some are discussed as under: Before Arrival Time- At this time, visitors can be attracted by videos, picture, promotion,
posters, blogs place at different points that includes websites, social media sites, country
sites. It is that step which aid in devising interest between visitors. At the Arrival time- They commonly distribute broacher, posters as well as templates that
helps in pulling huge number of customers and provide all needful information regarding
famous places. In this time, they transmit all data to their visitors. After visiting time- At the time of departure, guides provide them with picture, gifts,
products, paradigm to their customers so that they can take memory of that particular
tourist place to their respective country.
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Methods and Media used at the British Museum, Queen's house and National Maritime
Museum
In order to inculcate useful information to their travellers, there are different media and
methods that are adopted in these museums: Guide- At every museum there are guides who provide information to their visitors
regarding the history of that place. Events- In UK there are different types of events which happens on regular basis. It can
be conducted in different forms like gallery talks, eye opener tours. In every 90 minutes
famous places are displayed highlighting their values to the public. Exhibition- Museums arrange demonstration at various places to render information and
data regarding that place. Image of actual article and digital show are primarily utilised to
examine proper representation which is to be performed in faithful manner.
 Printing Media- This is among the oldest form of media which showcase data and helps
in influencing public. This type of media poses affirmative effect on the happening of
staff members who are working.
The primary explanation behind their representation is only to provide easy understanding about
the importance of these places (Poria ,2013). British museum and queen's house has selected
diverse methods which aid in rendering and increasing their education in the mixture of labels,
signs, drama, art.
CONCLUSION
From above mentioned report it is concluded that security of culture and heritage is
requisite to explode economic growth of the country. Tourism is playing important role and leads
to enhance GDP of the country(Dimitriou-Nikolakis, 2012 ). There are different types of
ownership of tourism industry which will results into effective growth and development. In this
context, partnership, public and independent beneficent organisation that aid in adding crucial
activity for protecting culture in efficacious manner. Tourism sector helps in increasing the
revenue of government as traveller of different countries are visited to various places.
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