A Critical Analysis of the Value and Culture of World Heritage Sites

This essay provides a comprehensive overview of World Heritage Sites, delving into their historical background, cultural value, and impact on the tourism sector. It discusses the various types of heritage sites, the processes involved in their nomination and selection, and the importance of research in preserving these historical locations. The essay also examines the economic, cultural, and social advantages of World Heritage Sites, including their positive impact on the environment, economy, and social identity. Furthermore, it addresses the negative consequences of tourism, such as environmental pollution and displacement of local communities, and offers recommendations for sustainable practices. The essay concludes by emphasizing the crucial role of World Heritage Sites in understanding and preserving cultural heritage for present and future generations, highlighting the importance of awareness and responsible tourism.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
World Heritage Site refers to specific place on the Earth which are the most outstanding
universal worth to humanity. It has been listed on the world heritage of database to prevent for
upcoming humans to enjoy and appreciate. The heritage sites is a unique palaces likely the
Pyramids in Egypt, the Taj Mahal in India and Grand Canyon in the United stated of America
etc. (Ripp and Rodwell, 2018). The main aim of this essay to understand more about world
heritage sites and critically evaluate the value or culture related to the world heritage site.
The essay will cover the discussion about the essential research on securing the historical
sites as well as how world heritage site influence the tourism sector. In addition to this, the kinds
of world heritage sites along with modem society prevent the WHS.
MAIN BODY
The background and history of World Heritage Sites
The World Heritage Site was introduced after the second world war as the emphasis on
specific cultural monuments across the global (Migoń , 2018.). The Ramses 2nd shine in Abu
Simble was destructed during the construction of the Asman Dam in the Eqypt in 1959. The
initiative taken by UNESCO to secure the valuable archaeological so it initiatives triggered a
debates on concerning of more focus on global convention so that prevent the natural and
cultural site in the planet.
The initiative view of Heritage sites
The United States had taken initiative of idea of protect the place of rich cultural as the
White House discussion in 1965 is known as a Word heritage Trust to secure the world superb
natural as well as scenic place for future generation. The Galapagos Island was the first site
listed in the World Heritage Site as it influence the value of monument among people. The
reason of heritage to protect the culture, scientific and historical value and maintain the unique
places.
The different kind of world heritage site
Natural heritage are basically the sites which are defined as a location, land and sea
which can be listed according to assessment criteria. These sites have formally protect and
enhance the life long value of heritage site such as private conservancies, botanic gardens, other
reverse, marine protected area and national parks. The indigenous heritage includes kinship ties,
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spirituality, knowledge, practices and forms of expression etc. Torres and Aboriginal islander
heritage expands back in many thousands of century has cast way. The indigenous heritage site
includes landscapes laden, essential waters, spiritual value, carved tree and rock arts. The
historical sites relate to the particular occupation and usage of continent since reaching 0f
European and another migrant (Khairi, N.D.M and et.al., 2021). It inculcating pre 1788 European
and Asian exploration, settlements and contact sites. The historic places define as places such as
archaeological sites, shipwrecks, defence faculties and others.
The process of nomination, creation and selection of a heritage site
The selected sites are monitored by the two main Advisory Bodies authorized in world
heritage convention such as ICOMOS(internationally council on monuments and sites) and
IUCN( The International Union for Conservation of the nature). The main criteria of WHS is the
site must be outstanding universal worth and be equal essential for present and upcoming
generation.
The vital research for preventing historical sites
Heritage sites are remembrance of our accentor as it reflect of human's past life so that it
enhance cultural value. The research of heritage site is an important sources of knowledge and
information to trace the development of human's society . The research provides economic sense
to remain the historical structure and enhance them to reach the meet the requirements and
modern codes. The original appearance old building not only help to allure the investments but
also adds characters the location. The heritage sites is a physical components of identification of
such building and site's unique stories of city and culture (Seyfi and et.al., 2019). The high
tourism sector improve the financial position of such countries as many internation investors
want invest in those counties. The rich heritage site attract the high investments as visitors
express their experience through photos and video of unique place and upload on social media
that make worth of travelling. Some travellers move foreign areas to enhance their lives as they
explore the culture so that it expand the cultural value that relate from heritages sites in different
location.
The advantages of World Heritage Sites in economic, cultural and social
After declaration of world heritage site, it can be positively impact on environments as
listed heritage site acquire the legal protection and internation recognition that help to gain the
fund from World Heritage Funds to prevent under specific condition. The positive impact of
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WHS on economy of the country as it improve the cash inflow through different countries, local
communities and companies. (Kim and et.al., 2018). These inflows of cash can be helpful for
generating revenue and employment. Therefore, it contributing toward to economic
development. The heritage site also impacted on social factor as it ability to create a contribution
in an area's identity and liveability. In some cases, the countries are more focus for social
activities likely parks, location of religious worship, mechanics institutes, schools and public
halls. The tourism industry directly related to the heritage site as visitors more prefer to visit to
old sites and explore the history( Xu, H. and et.al., 2021). The strong tourism improve native
economy through create a new business option and improve new job options so that it improve
the quality of like of local people. The World Heritage Site interrelate the culture of diverse
community as it focus on increment of cultural value. The UNESCO spends huge amount on
World Heritage Site that enhance the culture as international visitors explore and adapt the
specific culture of such country.
Negative impact of world heritage site in context to tourism industry
The near location of World heritage sites are manly covered with luxury hotels that
require much water to consume so that it lead to decrease water level of such places. The adverse
impact of world heritage site is environmental pollution as every day thousands travellers visit
the such sites. The tourism palaces enhance requirement of food containers, cosmetic package
and water bottles that create environmental pollution (Hosseini, Stefaniec and Hosseini, 2021.
The world heritage sites can influence the misplace of native things as everyone wants to gain
the profits so that some sites push out the local residents. The local people build the commercial
room such as luxury resort and hotels so that it displace the community, culture and economy
etc. The high tourism requires lots of energy in accommodating and transportation so that it
increase the large carbon emissions.
Recommendations
The visitors should not waste the water and other scarcity resources as everyone need to
understand the value of water. The hotel has to use disposable product as it not need of water so
that they avoid to wash the bedsheets and towels. The countries governments need to stop using
of plastic packages as single use plastics are the largest contributing of environment pollution.
The travellers should more focus on reusable bags for packing and enhance the use of cotton
totes as these both are environmental friendly and more durable when compare to other material.
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The government should encourage to travellers to visit at local community to understand the
cultural value of specific location that eliminating the displacement risks. The government have
to ensure that high use of renewal energy in transportation that reduce the air pollution. For
instance, there are high level of gathering of visitors in Taj Mahal that leads to highly use of
taxi cars and others vehicles that increase the air pollution in such place. The travellers ought to
use local public transportations and avoid to use personal car taxi in heritage side location. The
government have to promote the awareness campaign of heritage sites that help to enhance the
value or respect toward heritage sites so that visitors not harm the specific sites. The government
should create some restrict on revolution of native building that help to make more natural.
CONCLUSION
The above stated report concluded that World Heritage Sites are very important for a
countries development and growth as well. It has been concluded that heritage site's history play
a crucial role in understanding the old culture and value for present and future generation. There
are different type of heritage sites and basic process that help justify the world heritage sites.
There are various benefits of preventing the world heritage site in order to create social,
economic and cultural value in the country. The modern generation more active towards heritage
palaces as they more interest toward the history of heritage sites (Burbano and Meredith, 2021)
The modern generation are more educated of preserving the world heritage site as they know that
WHS are more important for them. The present generation spread the awareness with the help of
social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter that help basic understanding of WHS.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Burbano, D.V. and Meredith, T.C., 2021. Effects of tourism growth in a UNESCO World
Heritage Site: resource-based livelihood diversification in the Galapagos Islands,
Ecuador. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 29(8), pp.1270-1289.
Hosseini, K., Stefaniec, A. and Hosseini, S.P., 2021. World Heritage Sites in developing
countries: Assessing impacts and handling complexities toward sustainable
tourism. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 20, p.100616.
Khairi, N.D.M and et.al., 2021. Knowledge of tourist spatial behaviour to improve Melaka world
heritage site management. International Journal of Tourism Cities.
Kim, H and et.al., 2018. Assessing the economic values of World Heritage Sites and the effects
of perceived authenticity on their values. International Journal of Tourism
Research, 20(1), pp.126-136.
Migoń, P., 2018. Geoheritage and world heritage sites. In Geoheritage (pp. 237-249). Elsevier.
Ripp, M. and Rodwell, D., 2018. Governance in UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Reframing the
role of management plans as a tool to improve community engagement. In Aspects of
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Seyfi, S and et.al., 2019. Managing world heritage site stakeholders: A grounded theory
paradigm model approach. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 14(4), pp.308-324.
Xu, H. and et.al., 2021. Adapting to social media: the influence of online reviews on tourist
behaviour at a world heritage site in China. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism
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