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The Responsible Tourist Guide: Sightseeing
Traveling is all about getting to know the places you visit. From a city tour in a European city to world heritage sites, planning excursions with the thought of having the least possible impact while also benefiting the local community will make for a satisfying outing. Some things you can do include: * Read up... »
U.S. travelers would do more to help save World Heritage sites if they knew how
TripAdvisor conducted a World Heritage site survey of more than 2,500 U.S. respondents to determine traveler interest in and knowledge of culturally and naturally significant sites, as well as sustainable and responsible tourism. According to the survey: Information Starved 72% of U.S. respondents said they would do more to help protect sites of historical, cultural, or... »
Partnership to save heritage sites
UNESCO and online community site TripAdvisor launched a partnership to help save some of the world’s greatest cultural sites. The pairing will see TripAdvisor pledge an initial $1.5million (£919,000) towards UNESCO’s ambitious World Heritage Centre, from which the UN’s culture wing will observe and preserve some 890 sites on its World Heritage List. These... »
Tourism in Luxor – too much of a good thing?
Image by Shelby PDX via Flickr Fifty years ago fewer than a hundred visitors a day visited Luxor’s magnificent monuments. Now there are as many as 9,000, and they are largely responsible for rapid changes in temperature and humidity levels in the tombs. Kent Weeks, director of the Theban Mapping Project (TMP) since 1979, has devoted... »
What is a World Heritage Site, anyway?
The Unesco World Heritage Committee, elected by nation states every four years, meets once a year to choose the world’s natural or human-made wonders in the greatest need of protection. Any country is eligible to send in a list of nominees for protection. Each site must meet at least one of 10 criteria, among... »
