TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Four focuses on the strategic management of the World Heritage List (WHL) with particular emphasis on the fundamental issues, such as how many is practical, appropriate and feasible in the long term. The chapters consider how effective current strategies are in balancing the representation of the WHL and what can be done in the future to ensure the successful achievement of the overall aims.
In Chapter 10, Greg Ashworth and Bart van der Aa critically review the strategy and policy of the World Heritage Convention, elucidating the differences in practice between various national decision-making structures and investigating how the dominance of national interests often exceeds those of international interests in WHS selection. They then go on to raise some of the possible future solutions that would increase the viability of site selection within the WHConvention. These include consideration of options such as reassessment of the whole concept of WHS, reassessment of resources appropriate for the status or reassessment of the instruments used to determine this.
The final chapter in Part Four is written by Alan Fyall and Tijana Rakic and considers the broader context within which WHS operate. They start by reviewing the current relationship between World Heritage and tourism and re-examines the relationship between tourism and World Heritage Sites with particular regard to visitor trends at sites. Current issues pertaining...
