HERITAGE TOURISM

• Culture is the practice of everyday life of a particular group of people, the characteristics that define them including language, behavior, religion, cuisine, music and arts, social habits, beliefs, values and anything that portrays their way of life.
• Culture is the shared pragmatic knowledge that includes our behavioral as well as conceptual knowledge.
• Heritage refers to the aspects of culture that are inherited from the past generation to the present generation, and it is important to preserve the heritage for the future generations to come.
• Heritage is an expression of ways of living passed on from generation to generation by a particular group of people, or a society.
• Ethnicity is a classification system that identifies a group of people based on their shared attributes.
• Culture is one classification criteria that distinguish one group from another.
• Ethnicity is like an identity, a marker that is used to categorize groups of people based on their race, nationality, cultural group, language, customs, beliefs, and so on.
• Culture is like a code of conduct for a particular social group.
• Heritage wouldn't come to existence without culture and history.
• Heritage instills and reinforces national identity, making people understand better who they are and how their ancestors lived.
• Heritage generates awareness to other people, making them more appreciative and tolerant of other nationalities.
• Heritage tourism is the best way to learn about other cultures and pick up some lessons along the way.
• Heritage tourism attracts knowledge-based workers, creating an innovative habitat, and creating a sense of pride and belonging by residents.
• The environs of the Grand Palace in Bangkok are teeming with enterprising Thais who have increased the household income from the souvenirs sold to hordes of tourists who flock to the historic site daily.
• About 1.7 million people were killed during the Khmer Rouge regime.
• Heritage tourism restores and revitalizes a geographic area by attracting knowledge-based workers, creating an innovative habitat, and creating a sense of pride and belonging by residents.
• Heritage tourism generates economic vitality by promoting cultural attractions, creating jobs, raising household income per capita, and generating business activities.
• A trip to Cambodia's notorious Choeung Ek Killing Fields reminds tourists of the ills of a violent political regime and dictatorial leadership.
• Khmer Rouge guards killed babies by battering them against trees under an official policy to ensure the children of the brutal Cambodian regime's victims could never take revenge for their parents' deaths.
• Culture is considered as the way of life, referring to the customs, beliefs, art, way of life, and social organization of a particular country or group.
• Cultural differences manifest themselves in different ways and differing levels of depth, with symbols representing the most superficial manifestations and values representing the deepest manifestations.
• Symbols are words, gestures, pictures, or objects that carry a particular meaning which is only recognized by those who share a particular culture, with new symbols easily developing and old ones disappearing.
• Heroes are persons, past or present, real or fictitious, who possess characteristics that are highly prized in a culture, serving as models for behavior.
• Rituals are collective activities, sometimes superfluous in reaching desired objectives, but are considered as socially essential, often carried out for their own sake.
• Values are broad tendencies for preferences of certain state of affairs to others, many of which remain unconscious to those who hold them, and can only be inferred from the way people act under different circumstances.
• Cultural tourism involves four elements: tourism, use of cultural heritage assets, consumption of experiences and products, and the tourist, attracting non-local visitors who are traveling primarily for pleasure on limited time budgets and may know little about the significance of the assets being visited.
• Heritage, as defined by ICOMOS, includes tangible assets such as natural and cultural environments, encompassing landscapes, historic places, sites, and built environments, and intangible assets such as collections, past and continuing cultural practices, knowledge, and living experiences.
• Cultural tourists want to consume a variety of cultural experiences, and for this consumption, cultural heritage assets must be transformed into cultural tourism products.
• The transformation process in cultural tourism actualizes the potential of the asset by converting it into something that the tourist can utilize, a process that is integral to the successful development and sustainable management of the cultural tourism product.
• The challenge facing the cultural tourism sector is to find a balance between tourism and cultural heritage management, between the consumption of extrinsic values by tourists and conservation of the intrinsic values by cultural heritage managers.
• The tourist in cultural tourism must consider the tourist's motivations, which suggest or imply that all cultural tourists are motivated to travel for deep learning, experiential, or self-exploration reasons.
• Cultural tourism must consider the tourist's motivations, which recognize that the motivations for cultural tourism participation fall along a continuum, from those who travel exclusively or primarily for cultural tourism reasons to those for whom cultural tourism participation is an accidental element of the trip.
• A temple is a temple is a temple, unless it offers something unique or unusual for the tourist that entices a visit.
• The management of cultural heritage tourism attractions must accept that the attraction is indeed a tourism attraction and must be managed as such, at least in part, for tourism use.
• A cultural tourism product represents an asset that has been transformed specifically for tourism consumption.
• Tourists satisfy their personal needs by consuming enjoyable experiences.
• The challenge for managers of cultural heritage assets with tourism potential is that some visitation will occur regardless of whether it is wanted or not and regardless of what management structures are imposed.
• Not all cultural assets have tourism potential, as they may be locally significant or locally unusual assets.
• Destinations pursue tourism because of the economic benefits it provides and for the ensuing social benefits that accrue from its generation of wealth.
• Businesses enter the tourism sector with hopes of profiting by providing goods and services for the hundreds of millions of people who travel every year.