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 compensate some of the caveats identified in the case study by potentially enhancing stakeholder involvement, raising heritage and environmental awareness, facilitating regional approach and avoiding costly mistakes.

抽象的

可持续性对于文化遗产旅游（CHT）的交付至关重要，因为其吸引游客的基础取决于对所在社区历史文化产品的保护。新兴经济体的城市和半城市遗产站点内的CHT目的地特别具有挑战性。为了探讨这个问题及其相关的挑战，本文召集了一个跨学科的团队，代表着遗产管理，建筑和文化历史，经济学，环境规划和可持续性等学科，以确定可持续发展原则在半透明的CHT目的地中的整合程度。新兴经济体的城市目的地。对印度Srirangapatna-Mysore地区的案例研究的跨学科分析，在CHT中使用评估可持续性原则的框架表明，环境因素是最薄弱的环节。因此，提出了战略环境评估（SEA）作为一种工具，可以通过潜在地增加利益相关者的参与，提高遗产和环境意识，促进区域性方法并避免代价高昂的错误来弥补案例研究中确定的一些警告。