An Exploration of Key Heritage Concepts in Tourism and Travel Course

This essay provides an overview of key heritage concepts within the context of tourism and travel. It begins by defining heritage as a dynamic concept evolving from the past to the present, encompassing cultural beliefs and traditions. The essay emphasizes the historical nature of heritage and its development, exploring how societies manage their heritage and its impact on the tourism industry. It discusses the transformation of heritage due to factors like technological advancements and cultural diversity, while also linking heritage to museums and heritage practitioners. The essay examines the economic contributions of heritage and its role in the modern world, including the relationship between past and present. It also explores the industry's exploitation of original memories and the practice of heritage in pre-modern periods, concluding with a discussion of the dynamic nature of heritage and its evolution over time, using the Roman example to illustrate this process.

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Key heritage concepts
Introduction
Heritage is a broad and complex concept and so no specific definition fits it. It can
therefore be defined as that which is evolving from past generations into the present and is
carried forward into the future generations. It encompasses the objects and qualities like the
cultural believe and traditions passed down from the past generations. It is therefore imperative
to focus on its historical nature and its development practices. Every society carries a unique
heritage and some choose to carry them forward while others abandon them but either way they
both narrate to others their relationship with their past.
Development of heritage is very crucial in the long run. Its advancement has been
achieved through the publications on such heritage by experts in the field of heritage studies.
Transformation in the medieval sense of heritage has been as a result of various factors such as
technological improvements and alteration arising from diversity in what people undergo in
various regions among others such as changes due to colonialism.
Heritage is commonly linked to museums studies, professionalism and heritage
practitioners who eventually see to the development of heritage and its conservation to the
present (Dillmann,P.,Beranger,G.,Piccardo,P.,&Matthiessen,H., 2014, p. 42). Some economists
however argue that heritage contributes profusely to restructuring the world economy since
1970s. Apparently understanding the transformations in the world economy requires more
elaborate and broad historical analysis which heritage studies cannot portray such as
contemplating past simple tracks of the entire lineage.

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To prove the viability of current view and practice of heritage we need to take into
account the activities that have evolved throughout the entire process. In the current world
heritage is filtered from a fictional history that existed in the myths according to various cultures
and figures out what is significant to be carried forward to the present and future. Heritage
portrays the relationship between the past and the present. Some scholars try to detach within
wider advancement of the postmodern society. Today heritage is figured out to be generating
from cultural, social and political past.
The heritage industry exploits the original and genuine memories of what people had in
the past and uses it in the modern form thereby making them hypocritical in their description.
According to Nora the memories of the past has been tampered with and has been replaced by
false heritage. This insinuates that there should not be a temporal closure and so heritage should
be viewed in its entire evolution and be given a history of its own without tampering with the
origin.
Heritage is practiced largely in the pre modern period for example the practice of bonfire
celebrations which ritualized through activities like child’s rhyme (Whelan, 2016, p. 13). It can
be viewed as a clarification of an older tradition. Various cultures got numerous stories to
support their heritage as an instrument of conservation and power. This was important in
establishing a close relationship with people which otherwise they could have not achieved.
Heritage therefore originates from the past which is again established into the present. Several
heritage operations are mimicked in the subsequent so as to incorporate authority.
With all that observation you can conclude that heritage is dynamic and adjust from time
to time due to inner dynamics as a result of external demands. The roman example is significant
in portraying the growth and evolution of heritage from traditional period to the modern world

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through symbols being related to the actual remains rather than the historic sites. Finally it is
very broad and so can be explored in different perspectives and originates from the ancient time.
Bibliography

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Dillmann,P.,Beranger,G.,Piccardo,P.,&Matthiessen,H. (2014). corrision of metallic heritage
artefacts:ivestigation,conservation and prediction of long term behaviour (Vol. 48). Elsevier.
Whelan, Y. (2016). Heritage memory and the politics of identity;New perspectives on the cultural
landscape. Routledge.