Exploring Sustainability in Cultural Heritage Tourism Planning: Can Strategic Environmental Assessment Fill in the Gap?

Urmila Jha-Thakur, Fatemeh Khosravi, Giamila Quattrone, Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Ian Magedera and Supriya Garikipati

No 202005, Working Papers from University of Liverpool, Department of Economics

Abstract: Sustainability is critical to the delivery of cultural heritage tourism (CHT) since its foundation to attract tourist relies on the preservation of the historic and cultural offerings of the host community. CHT destinations within urban and semi-urban heritage sites in emerging economies find this particularly challenging. To explore this issue and its associated challenges, this paper brings together an interdisciplinary team representing disciplines of heritage management, architectural and cultural history, economics, environmental planning and sustainability to establish the extent to which sustainability principles are integrated within CHT destinations in the semi-urban destinations of emerging economies. An interdisciplinary analysis of the case study of Srirangapatna-Mysore region in India, using a framework for evaluating sustainability principles within CHT reveals environmental considerations to be the weakest link. Accordingly, Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is proposed as a tool that can potentially enhance environmental sustainability of CHT.

Keywords: Cultural Heritage Tourism (CHT); Sustainability; Interdisciplinary; Semi-urban; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D9 E4 E5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2020-03
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