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Archaeological sites opened to the public, and especially those
highly photogenic sites that have achieved iconic status, are often
major tourist attractions. By opening an archaeological site to
tourism, threats and opportunities will emerge.The threats are to
the archaeological record, the pre-historic or historic materials
in context at the site that can provide facts about human history
and the human relationship to the environment. The opportunities
are to share what can be learned at archaeological sites and how it
can be learned. The latter is important because doing so can build
a public constituency for archaeology that appreciates and will
support the potential of archaeology to contribute to conversations
about contemporary issues, such as the root causes and possible
solutions to conflict among humans and the social implications of
environmental degradation. In this volume we will consider factors
that render effective management of archaeological sites open to
the public feasible, and therefore sustainable. We approach this in
two ways: The first is by presenting some promising ways to assess
and enhance the feasibility of establishing effective management.
Assessing feasibility involves examining tourism potential, which
must consider the demographic sectors from which visitors to the
site are drawn or might be in the future, identifying preservation
issues associated with hosting visitors from the various
demographic sectors, and the possibility and means by which local
communities might be engaged in identifying issues and generating
long-term support for effective management. The second part of the
book will provide brief case studies of places and ways in which
the feasibility of sustainable management has been improved.
Archaeological sites opened to the public, and especially those
highly photogenic sites that have achieved iconic status, are often
major tourist attractions. By opening an archaeological site to
tourism, threats and opportunities will emerge.The threats are to
the archaeological record, the pre-historic or historic materials
in context at the site that can provide facts about human history
and the human relationship to the environment. The opportunities
are to share what can be learned at archaeological sites and how it
can be learned. The latter is important because doing so can build
a public constituency for archaeology that appreciates and will
support the potential of archaeology to contribute to conversations
about contemporary issues, such as the root causes and possible
solutions to conflict among humans and the social implications of
environmental degradation. In this volume we will consider factors
that render effective management of archaeological sites open to
the public feasible, and therefore sustainable. We approach this in
two ways: The first is by presenting some promising ways to assess
and enhance the feasibility of establishing effective management.
Assessing feasibility involves examining tourism potential, which
must consider the demographic sectors from which visitors to the
site are drawn or might be in the future, identifying preservation
issues associated with hosting visitors from the various
demographic sectors, and the possibility and means by which local
communities might be engaged in identifying issues and generating
long-term support for effective management. The second part of the
book will provide brief case studies of places and ways in which
the feasibility of sustainable management has been improved.
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