文化遗产和旅游的可持续发展

旅游业给遗产保护与遗产地管理带来了机遇与挑战。旅游业对维护文化和自然遗产价值,对社会、当地群众及非物质文化遗产均有影响,也给当地遗产设施发展与保护带来机遇。联合国教科文组织始终致力于文化与自然遗产的保护与弘扬工作,开创有前瞻性的旅游业,承认文化多样性原则,强调旅游业在促进遗产保护等方面的有效作用。其创意城市网络主推的"善行旅游",严格遵循原真性与完整性的原则,通过对世界文化遗产、纪念碑、历史建筑、国家公园、博物馆等各类景区定期评估,提升公众关于新旅游产品及旅客稀少遗址的意识,提升参观者体验感受等多种行动,改善人群福利,保护自然和文化遗产,促进经济和社会发展,从而有利于文化遗产保护与旅游业可持续发展。

Cultural Heritage and the Sustainable Development of Tourism

Tourism brings challenges as well as opportunities to heritage preservation and heritage sites management.While affecting the preservation of culture and heritage values,and asserting impacts on societies,local communities and intangible heritages,tourism also provides opportunities for development in that it creates infrastructures that can benefit the local.The UNESCO has been long dedicated to the protection and development of cultural and natural heritages,creating prospective tourism,admitting cultural diversity,and emphasizing the positive influence of tourism on heritage preservation.The "Good Tourism" that the UNESCO has been promoting calls for a range of actions to be undertaken including to consider issues of authenticity and integrity,regularly assesse sites such as World Heritage sites,monuments,historical buildings,national parks and museums,raise public awareness about new tourism products and less-visited sites,and improve the experience for the visitors,so as to serve human well-being,protect and conserve natural and cultural heritage,and support and strengthen economic and social development,which will benefit cultural heritage preservation and the sustainable development of tourism.