[Course] Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Readers may be interested in this online course about tourism management of World Heritage Sites. I’m not sure if it deals with Southeast Asian heritage specifically, but it may be useful for as a resource. The course begins on 24 May.

The very term “Heritage” suggests that something of value has been transmitted through generations up to ours, and that such generations were and are able to access it as its heirs. In the case of World Heritage Sites, we need to balance and orchestrate preservation: the current generation should be able to visit and somehow enjoy heritage in a way that will allow future generations to benefit from and have access to it. Sustainability is a major part of the solution.

Since its establishment in 2002, the international university UNESCO UNITWIN Network “Culture, Tourism, Development” has been working with its members – highly profiled researchers and professors – towards the goal of how tourism can coexist with, protect and sustainably enhance the outstanding value of the heritage belonging to all of humanity.

With almost twenty years of expertise in the fields of culture, tourism and development as well as its contributions in the research of tourism studies, the Network wants to share its knowledge in a spirit of solidarity among universities, decision makers, non-governmental organizations, civil society and the private sector. In 2018, with the release of the first volume of the online course “Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites” (7’700+ learners from 168 countries), they did so in the freely accessible form of a Massive Open Online Course. One year later, the second volume was released (4’100+ learners from 153 countries).

For 2021, the MOOC series “Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites” is releasing its third volume. It is a new course providing new insights and numerous case studies from all around the world in all of its six chapters (see “Course Schedule”).

Tailored to policy makers, site managers, students and people active in the tourism industry, this new volume is open to anyone curious to learn more about tourism at UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Source: FUN – Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites (vol. 3)