Dark Tourism Along the Silk Route: The Case of Thessaloniki

Mytaftsi, I. K.; Tsironis, C. N.

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“…conservation sites in Uzbekistan and Pakistan, while extremism and conflicts actively damage irreplaceable sites as in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan (Lostal and Vilaça, 2015;Mytaftsi and Tsironis, 2021;Rybina, 2021). 4.…”

Section: Deterioration and Damage Affect Heritage Fabric In Underfundedmentioning

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The Role of Metaverse in Silk Road’s Tourism:

Dayoub,

Yang,

Omran

et al. 2024

IRSPSD International

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This paper examines the potential of emerging immersive technologies like the Metaverse to promote the Silk Road cultural heritage within the framework of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The ancient Silk Roads facilitated vibrant pan-Eurasian exchange for over 1500 years, catalyzing early globalization. Modern connectivity initiatives like China's BRI focus extensively on infrastructure to revive these cultural linkages that defined the historic Silk Roads. However, realizing the tourism and developmental potential of the intercultural legacy tied to architectural sites, motifs, cuisine, beliefs, and artistic traditions diffused along these historic routes faces contemporary challenges around preservation, geopolitics, site deterioration, costs, uneven access, and cultural homogenization. This study explores the implications of Metaverse in revitalizing this heritage in situ and through digital channels. The paper provides a multi-disciplinary approach to aligning digital revitalization plans around the Metaverse for the future that reconnect modern societies with ancient linkages via immersive storytelling of the Silk Roads.

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Section: Deterioration and Damage Affect Heritage Fabric In Underfundedmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Metaverse in Silk Road’s Tourism:

Dayoub,

Yang,

Omran

et al. 2024

IRSPSD International

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The silk roads and shared heritage in Europe: Beyond ‘China to Rome’

Brown,

O’Brien

2024

China Information

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This article offers critical engagement with ideas of shared heritage, considering representation of the silk roads in Europe as a counterpoint to their representation in China. Often cast as a ‘bridge’ between ‘East and West’ or ‘China and Rome’ (e.g. UNESCO’s description of the Silk Road Heritage Corridors), the silk roads are regularly depicted as an abstraction of interconnection. And as an abstraction, the idea of shared heritage is often emptied of its potential to communicate greater understanding of the past, respect for cultural difference and co-dependency, or to invite reflection on forms of community constituted through shared histories. Exploring the Sinicization of the silk roads, we argue that much of the rhetoric of shared heritage is deceptively exclusive. We turn to consider the depiction of these histories of trade within Europe, offering a discursive analysis of metatexts around the United Nations World Tourism Organization/European Commission Western Silk Road tourism project, with some discussion of the representation of ancient trade at different European museums. We argue that an enduring legacy of the silk roads’ romanticized image and the transcription of this into commercial tourism inhibit their potential as a useful metanarrative for the future because it fails to communicate the complexity of the past, particularly histories of violence and inequality. However, considering recent depiction of the amber roads, we argue that histories of trade can nevertheless be mobilized towards a more nuanced understanding of the past and a critical reflection on the past and present.

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Dark Tourism Along the Silk Route: The Case of Thessaloniki

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