The Rise and Fall (?) of Hội An, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Vietnam

Avieli, Nir

doi:10.1355/sj30-1b

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“…Today, the current number of visitors heavily exceeds those in a recent past. Avieli (2015) states that in 1994 the ancient town attracted about 30,000 visitors a year and had but one hotel. By 1999, however, there were 16 hotels and the numbers of restaurants had mushroomed from the three of four that had existed 5 years previously (Aviele, 2015).…”

Section: The Context Of Hội An Cam Thanh and Cam Chaumentioning

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Heritage, education and processes of change in Vietnamese rural tourism: A case study from Hội An

Trinh

Ryan

Bui

2020

Journal of Vacation Marketing

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While the notion of farm tourism is not new in tourism studies, it continues to evolve and take forms not previously examined. This article describes the development of this form of tourism on the outskirts of Hội An (a World Heritage Site in Vietnam) as a farming sector seeks to build on a demand being created by visitors to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization gazette site. Based on 27 informants, the article examines the nature of the agritourism products and their move towards sustainable tourism in response to demand. The article highlights (a) the nature of the products, (b) the opportunity provided by proximity to a World Heritage Site and (c) the educational background of the farmers and suggests that levels of education possess importance by enabling entrepreneurs to acquire business skills not previously available to earlier generations. In identifying this, the article contributes to a literature on how tourism products evolve in developing countries, for not only does education create skill sets but also creates an awareness of the commercial and social values of traditions and the need to retain this as expressions of cultural patterns of life.

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Section: The Context Of Hội An Cam Thanh and Cam Chaumentioning

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Heritage, education and processes of change in Vietnamese rural tourism: A case study from Hội An

Trinh

Ryan

Bui

2020

Journal of Vacation Marketing

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“…This is mainly because any attempt to interfere in the delicate issue of land management could result in strong institutional resistance to dialogue, and could even be a threat to the UNESCO delegates in Cambodia. In other words, if international experts wish to secure their place in urban politics (and in the country), they have to be careful enough to comply with the informal rules of local politics (Avieli, 2015). UNESCO does not exert some of the authority that its status as an international organisation would lead one to expect, demonstrating to what extent the state -not as a monolithic power but as a multifarious network of actors performing and struggling for power -still plays a dominant role in defining the fate of historic buildings in the developing city.…”

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“…In the face of the destruction of large parts of their urban legacy, national and local authorities have gradually developed some heritage awareness. Since the second half of the 1980s, urban authorities have initiated conservation policies for historic districts as part of a strategy for the construction of national identities and tourism-driven economic development (Avieli, 2015;Logan, 2002;Yeoh, 2005).…”

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Beyond official heritage agendas: The third space of conservation practices in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Fauveaud

Esposito²

2020

Urban Studies

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Urban heritage conservation has often been portrayed as a practice shaped by ‘authorised discourses’ which are produced by powerful actors including the state, international organisations and experts. But the literature has also paid attention to non-governmental actors who produce ‘unauthorised heritage discourses’ by calling for broader and more diversified heritage interpretations and practices. Using the case of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, we argue that the dichotomy between authorised and unauthorised heritage has produced artificial boundaries between those legacies which have been (or should be) identified as heritage and the multiple remains of the past which nobody has ever attempted to define as such. Instead, we argue that multiple authorised discourses, circulating worldwide, generate a pervasive global hierarchy of value which relates to heritage. Various actors, including bilateral donors, states’ representatives, tycoons, owners and tenants, shape urban tactics which selectively appropriate components of this hierarchy and combine them with socio-political and economic rationalities in order to conserve Phnom Penh’s urban legacies. Taken together, these tactics shape what we name a ‘third space of heritage hybridity’ outside the scope of official agendas.

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“…Ces situations conflictuelles ont fait l'objet d'une approche critique des patrimonialisations, notamment au sein des « Études patrimoniales critiques », qui interrogent l'importation, voire l'imposition, de dispositifs élaborés et expérimentés en Occident dans des sociétés qui ont une conception différente du patrimoine et de sa transmission. L'universalité supposée des catégories, normes et valeurs véhiculées dans ces programmes est questionnée, ainsi que la pertinence de leur transfert et les modalités de leur réception-appropriation par les sociétés et les groupes concernés (Dearborn & Stallmeyer 2009 ;Avieli 2015) ; approche critique nuancée par des études qui discutent la dimension globalisée et globalisante des démarches opérées par les organismes internationaux, notamment l'UNESCO, en soulignant la pluralité des médiations réalisées localement et l'évolutivité du système (Berliner & Bortolotto 2013).…”

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The Construction of the Heritage Field in Bali: The Crossroads of Plural Representations of the Island and its Legacies

Lancret¹

2020

moussons

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En juin 2012, le dispositif balinais du subak est inscrit sur la liste du patrimoine mondial dans la catégorie « Paysage culturel 1 ». Système technique d'irrigation, le subak correspond à un espace physique, celui des rizières alimentées en eau par une même source et des villages qui leur sont associés, et à un espace social, celui des familles propriétaires d'une parcelle agricole (Geertz 1972 ; Lansing 1987). Dès l'année suivante, des manquements de la part des instances nationale et régionale dans la prise en compte de la vulnérabilité du paysage culturel et le soutien aux pratiques des communautés locales dans la gestion du dispositif alarment le Centre du patrimoine mondial 2. En parallèle, des incompréhensions et des contestations sont exprimées par les membres des sociétés d'irrigation des subak quant à l'usage des terres rizicoles et à la répartition des coûts et des bénéfices résultant de la reconnaissance patrimoniale (MacRae 2017).

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The Rise and Fall (?) of Hội An, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Vietnam

Cited by 25 publications

References 24 publications

Heritage, education and processes of change in Vietnamese rural tourism: A case study from Hội An

Heritage, education and processes of change in Vietnamese rural tourism: A case study from Hội An

Beyond official heritage agendas: The third space of conservation practices in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

The Construction of the Heritage Field in Bali: The Crossroads of Plural Representations of the Island and its Legacies

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