A Sustainable Historic Waterfront Revitalization Decision Support Tool for Attracting Tourists

Abstract

Waterfront revitalization would be an effective strategy to preserve heritages, conserve the contaminated or abandoned site and inspire the identity and authenticity. However, there is no decision support tool to quantify and evaluate the sustainability accreditation of waterfronts in tourism attraction. This research aimed to identify the most potential waterfront typology in tourism attraction and develop the waterfront sustainable revitalization (SWR) index assessment model. The SWR index can assist policy makers and urban developers to analyze the heritage waterfronts using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. The research found out the historic waterfront has the highest potential in tourism attraction among other typologies. And, pollution moderator is mostly important sub-criterion in tourism absorption (W C2.2 = 0.1294); followed by Identity (W C1.2 = 0.1272) and Safety and well-being (W C1.3 = 0.1043). The SWR index can be applied in any waterfronts in heritage cities around the world, while this research implemented it as a case study in Bandar Maharani, Muar, Malaysia. It resulted Bandar Maharani was ranked as grade C; means, usable waterfront to which extent environmental, social and physical revitalization are needed. The SWR index can be coupled with other decision-making methods in future, to reduce its inconsistencies and increasing accuracy.

An Application of the A’WOT Analysis for the Management of Cultural Heritage Assets: The Case of the Historical Farmhouses in the Aglié Castle (Turin)

“…The applications of the A'WOT method are varied and cover as major fields natural resource management [32,[35][36][37], sustainable tourism and tourism management [25,34,38,39], strategic assessment and group decision making (see among others, [40][41][42][43]). Although in the field of cultural heritage assessment, there are a flourishing set of recent contributions in literature on the sole application of AHP [44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51] and SWOT analysis [52][53][54][55][56], respectively. Nonetheless, to our knowledge, there are no contributions on the application of A'WOT to strategic decisions on cultural heritage.…”

Temporal Characteristics of Waterfronts in Wuhan City and People’s Behavioral Preferences Based on Social Media Data

“…Therefore, a considerable amount of previous research studied successful cases of revitalization of urban waterfronts in some developed countries [8], including the design and landscape construction methods of urban waterfront spaces [9], development modes [10][11][12], and the policies on the treatment of waterfront environments [13,14]. Since we entered the 21st century, studies on waterfronts and their influences have gradually enriched, such as the openness characteristics of lakefronts in Wuhan central urban area [2], using accessibility to assess a riverfront rehabilitation project [15], taking leisure function into consideration during planning missions for waterfront spaces [16,17], and some integrated waterfront cultural planning of some waterfronts with rich cultures [18,19]. With the enhancement of ecological awareness, the ecology of urban waterfronts became an area of focus.…”

Exploring the Relationship between Potential and Actual of Urban Waterfront Spaces in Wuhan Based on Social Networks

“…Waterfront is defined as the interaction area between urban development and the needs of the city and its residents [9]. Waterfront is the most attractive waterscape for human habitation [10]. People prefer waterfront areas for carrying out festivals, religious activities, or leisure activities [11].…”