CULTURAL TOURISM MANAGEMENT Spring 2021 Prof. David A. Mason First Semester-Paper Assignment: 1. Choose and Vi

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CULTURAL TOURISM MANAGEMENT
Spring 2021
Prof. David A.
Mason
First Semester-Paper Assignment:
1. Choose and Visit a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site
in the nation where you now are.
– if you can visit more than one, that's better!
2. Imagine that you are working for the UNESCO World
Cultural Heritage Center, and you are assigned by your boss to
review that Site for its periodic evaluation.
3. Do any website research that you need-to about
that Site, so that you understand it (better if you do this before
visiting).
4. At the site, take notes and photos, including
selfies (so I know you were there).
5. Write a 3 or-so page report to your Boss. No
photos in the paper! If you want, they can be extra, on a
final page.
6. Your report should explain the Values by which this
site became a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site (according to the
criteria we learned), and then evaluate whether those Values have
been maintained properly. Investigate the history and flow of
domestic & international Tourism to that site (until 2019), the
refurbishment, repairs & maintenance; and the current policies
to protect and preserve it. From a Cultural Tourism
Management point-of-view, tell what you found that was good, right,
fun, exciting, interesting, pleasant; and, what was bad, wrong, not
interesting or unpleasant.
Would you recommend it for its Host Nation further promote it
for more international tourists to visit? Why or why
not? Pay special attention to the "globalization"
factors -- use of languages and etc. – are they adequate or
not? What do you recommend that they change in the
operation of this Site, in the future?
7. If you cannot visit a Cultural or Mixed Site, you may
visit a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site. If you cannot
visit either, let me know, and you could visit & report-on some
local site that maybe COULD someday be inscribed as a UNESCO World
Cultural Heritage Site!