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Conservation or Tourism?: Open Air Museums and their Relevance to Archaeotourism.

Telinde, Rachael Samantha LU (2021) ARKM21 20211
Archaeology
Abstract
Efforts of conservation create a conflict between the archaeological community and tourism industry. The following paper will discuss the tourism industry and the conflict between tourism goals and the conservation of archaeological material. The focus will be on open air museums and exploring the proposal that these open air museums are a valuable resource for archaeology to pursue alternative, if not better conservation methods and ethical standards while still generating and benefiting from the revenue of the tourism industry. By making use of two contrasting case studies, the open air museum Āraiši in Latvia and the tourist destination of Xunantunich in Belize, the following paper will discuss how these sites are entangled with... (More)
Efforts of conservation create a conflict between the archaeological community and tourism industry. The following paper will discuss the tourism industry and the conflict between tourism goals and the conservation of archaeological material. The focus will be on open air museums and exploring the proposal that these open air museums are a valuable resource for archaeology to pursue alternative, if not better conservation methods and ethical standards while still generating and benefiting from the revenue of the tourism industry. By making use of two contrasting case studies, the open air museum Āraiši in Latvia and the tourist destination of Xunantunich in Belize, the following paper will discuss how these sites are entangled with concepts such as authenticity, conservation, and ethics and the related impacts that these concepts have on each site. (Less)
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author
Telinde, Rachael Samantha LU
supervisor
organization
course
ARKM21 20211
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Open Air Museums, Conservation, Authenticity, Archaeotourism, Tourism, Ethics
language
English
id
9050392
date added to LUP
2021-10-01 10:47:53
date last changed
2021-10-01 10:47:53
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  abstract     = {{Efforts of conservation create a conflict between the archaeological community and tourism industry. The following paper will discuss the tourism industry and the conflict between tourism goals and the conservation of archaeological material. The focus will be on open air museums and exploring the proposal that these open air museums are a valuable resource for archaeology to pursue alternative, if not better conservation methods and ethical standards while still generating and benefiting from the revenue of the tourism industry. By making use of two contrasting case studies, the open air museum Āraiši in Latvia and the tourist destination of Xunantunich in Belize, the following paper will discuss how these sites are entangled with concepts such as authenticity, conservation, and ethics and the related impacts that these concepts have on each site.}},
  author       = {{Telinde, Rachael Samantha}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Conservation or Tourism?: Open Air Museums and their Relevance to Archaeotourism.}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}