Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development: Volume 14 Issue 3

The perception of UNESCO World Heritage Sites' managers about concepts and elements of cultural sustainability in tourism

Rafael Almeida de Oliveira, Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho, Lorenzo Cantoni

The research aims to identify the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site (WHS) managers' perception of cultural…

Integrated management of heritage sites: scale development and validation

A. Vinodan, S. Meera

The study explores the possibility of developing a valid scale for integrated management of heritage sites to bring a holistic approach to heritage properties' conservation…

Traditional Mossi housing–case studies in Baasneere (Burkina Faso)

María Lidón de Miguel, Lidia García-Soriano, Camilla Mileto, Fernando Vegas López-Manzanares

The common language behind vernacular architecture only seems to be maintained in societies that preserve a traditional way of life. Changes in these societies can threaten their…

Nightlife in historical sites: between lights and shadows (visions and challenges)

Lina Nageb Fewella

The paper aims to describe the positive and negative effects of night lights in historical sites, as well as the most salient challenges faced by the visitors of these sites and…

Toward cultural significance awareness in HIS: a data model approach

Pierre Jouan, Pierre Hallot

The purpose of this paper is to address the challenging issue of developing a quantitative approach for the representation of cultural significance data in heritage information…

Craft culture revival through a sustainable approach of integrating tourism with craft promotion: case study of Puri, Odisha

Anisa Azharunnisa, Sumana Gupta, Sudha Panda

The purpose of this paper is to create optimally located Facilitation Centers on this tourist circuit, evaluated through network analysis, thus creating an effective linkage…

Motivations as predictors of religious tourism: the Muslim pilgrimage to the city of Mecca

Tahani Hassan, Mauricio Carvache-Franco, Wilmer Carvache-Franco, Orly Carvache-Franco

Religious tourism is one of the oldest and fastest-growing segments. This study analyzes religious tourism through the pilgrimage of Muslims to the holy city of Mecca and has the…

Lime in Cuenca (Ecuador): from patrimonial to matrilineal

María del Cisne Aguirre Ullauri, Christian Hernán Contreras-Escandón

Through the case of Blanca Sinchi, the following analysis presents valuation criteria that have resulted in the invisibility of social actors and cultural patrimony (cultural…

Historic public paths in rural areas: engine of development and origin of new conflicts

David Moscoso-Sánchez, José María Nasarre-Sarmiento, Manuel Trujillo-Carmona, Manuel T. González-Fernández, Ana Luque-Gil, Víctor Sánchez-Sanz, Pablo Vidal-González

In this article, the authors analyse a complex social process affecting historic public paths in rural areas in southern Spain. Despite the fact that urban populations are…