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Theme: "The Protection of World Heritage & Cultural Tourism"

Jordan, 16 - 20 December 2002

The Seventh International Seminar of the Forum UNESCO – University & Heritage (FUUH), will take place in Jordan, in the period between December 16th-20th, 2002. The Seminar will be organized by Yarmouk University, in collaboration with the Hashemite University under the theme “The Protection of World Heritage & Cultural Tourism”. This seminar will be the occasion to make universities meet with tourism industry leaders and to help both world, that of the universities and that of the private tourism industry to better understand themselves and identify mutual concerns, expectations and actions.

Forum UNESCO – University & Heritage was created in 1996, through the agreement signed by UNESCO with the Polytechnic University of Valencia. FUUH is now a joint program between UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

The Seminar: objectives. The seventh seminar of the Forum UNESCO – University & Heritage will focus on cultural tourism and its role in sustainable development on one hand and its relationship with the conservation of cultural heritage on the other. The main objective of the seventh Seminar is to tackle the question of how to strike the delicate balance between promotion of cultural tourism and the safeguarding and protection of cultural heritage, tourism main asset.

The connection between cultural tourism and conservation of cultural heritage is not obvious or Cleary defined. A major concern at this forum will be the imminent thereat posed by the rapid increase in cultural tourism on cultural resources. Rather than being a tool conservation, tourism in many cases can accelerate certain destructive processes of the cultural heritage. With the obvious exception of ticket entry fees into cultural heritage sites, the direct benefits to our cultural heritage are certainly limited. On the contrary, it has been noted that beyond certain limits, tourism can become a negative element concerning conservation and use of the cultural heritage. It is hoped that the seminar will find effective answers to many open questions in this field, such as:

What are the tendencies of development in the market of cultural tourism?
How may cultural tourism assist in the conservation of the cultural heritage?
How can cultural tourism become a factor in social and economic development?

The forum will definitely provide an excellent opportunity for heritage specialists across the world to meet, to learn about each others work and to promote the protection of the cultural heritage through cooperative university projects.

 

    
   

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