Worldheritage Forum

Impacts and Risks generated by large Visitor Numbers

Posted on 22. February 2006 um 18:20 Uhr
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A draft version of a paper, describing Impacts and Risks generated by large Visitor Numbers on single historic Buildings and historic Ensembles was now published on the website of the PICTURE Project. Already the structure of the listed potential impacts is very interesting:

(...)
2 Impacts and risks in relation to individual historic objects
2.1 Environmental aspects
2.1.1 Moisture and temperature changes
2.1.2 Deposits on surfaces
2.1.3 Air pollution
2.1.4 Radiation
2.1.5 Monitoring
2.2Mechanical damage and wear
2.2.1 Increased wear
2.2.2 Vibrations and dynamic effects
2.3Intentional damage
2.3.1 Vandalism
2.3.1.1 Graffiti
2.3.1.2 Religious vandalism
2.3.1.3 Climbing monuments
2.3.2 Dispossession
2.3.2.1 Thefts
2.3.2.2 “Souvenirism”
2.4 Ignorance and negligence
2.5 Transformations
2.6 Conflicts of use
3 Measures
3.1 Reduction of risks generated by visitors
3.2 Comments on impact and risks to visitors
3.3 Reduction of risks to visitors
4 Impacts and risks in relation to sites and urban areas
4.1 Introduction
4.1.1 Attractiveness and a social value of sites with rich cultural heritage features
4.1.2 Recent development of urban tourism
4.2 Impacts and risks for citizens
4.2.1 Quality of life
4.2.1.1 Lijiang in China (Yamamura, 2001)
4.2.1.2 Telc (Drdácký, 2001)
4.2.2 Integration of cultural heritage into the life of society
4.3 Risks for sites
4.3.1 Morphological changes
4.3.2 Air pollution from tourist traffic
4.3.3 Deterioration of cultural heritage
4.3.4 Prettification and freezing of urban spaces
(...)
reference:http://www.culture-routes.lu/picture/IMG/pdf/222_long_en.pdf

Here you can access the complete draft paper.

I don't think that in this draft version all aspects are listed, but it provides a good basis for further work.

Market Place of Lijang, China with visitors reference: WIKIPEDIA, GNU