HBM 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Great Barrier Reef, Stonehenge, Characters In The Thursday Next Series
7 Dec 2016
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Exam 3 is now on wednesday the 19th. List of sites that can be preserved for humanity (approx 936) Critereia (examples: represents a masterpiece of human creative genius, bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony, look up the rest, places like machu piccu, stone henge, great barrier reef, all world heritage sites. Selection process: pros: it is a huge tourism booster, cons: world heritage is big business (tourism) and all of a sudden you have unintended consequences of mass tourism, especially for unprepared destinations. 1993- 7,500 tourists annually (20 people per day) Today- 2. 5 million tourists annually (6849 ppl per day: foot traffic, groundwater pumping in nearby city. Whose heritage is being preserved: exploiting or preserving. Tourism: hotels, restaurants, shops, construction, roads, etc. Video shows price of progress, when that progress is not accompanied by control. Tourism: policy, regulation today we talk about planning. Richard butler (theoretical model) 1980: exploration little or no tourism infrastructure.
