Lord, How I Want to Be in that Number! On the Blessing of UNESCO World Heritage Listing

Bertacchini, Enrico; Revelli, Federico; Zotti, Roberto

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“…Renting heritage buildings for residential purposes can have both positive and negative effects on the preservation of these buildings and their cultural heritage, as seen in the condition of As-Salt, a historic city in Jordan, which was newly listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to the prominence and significance of this city's identity and exclusive heritage buildings. This announcement could have a notable impact on the local community's economic growth and the expansion of the tourism industry (Bertacchini, Revelli, & Zotti, 2023); and this can be detected by the amplified number of tourists who visited the city after the declaration.…”

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“Rental Activities Impact on Heritage Buildings Preservation from Residents’ Perceptions: As-Salt City as a Case Study”

Arabeyyat

2023

Future Cities and Environment

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This research paper investigates the influence of rental activities on the preservation of heritage buildings in As-Salt City, Jordan. Though rental activities can offer financial support for heritage building preservation, they also pose possible dangers to their long-term sustainability. This study aims to recognize key challenges and opportunities related to the preservation of heritage buildings. The study provides treasured recommendations for policymakers, urban planners, and other stakeholders involved in heritage preservation and urban development. These recommendations aim to strike a balance between encouraging rental activities and the preservation of the cultural heritage of As-Salt City. By taking into consideration the perspectives of experts, stakeholders, and residents, the research offers practical insights into handling rental activities in a way that respects and enhances the preservation of heritage buildings. The findings of this study contribute to the existing literature on heritage building preservation and rental activities. They shed light on the specific challenges and opportunities faced by cities like As-Salt, providing a valuable reference for other urban centers contending with similar issues. Examining the case of As-Salt City, this investigation deepens our comprehension of the intricate interaction between leasing activities and the preservation of historic structures, as well as establishing a framework for eco-friendly urban growth that safeguards the cultural legacy of the city for foreseeable generations.

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“Rental Activities Impact on Heritage Buildings Preservation from Residents’ Perceptions: As-Salt City as a Case Study”

Arabeyyat

2023

Future Cities and Environment

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Evaluating the quality of UNESCO World Heritage List: a comparison with the Baedeker’s guidebooks

Dattilo,

Padovano

2023

J Cult Econ

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This study verifies whether the number of criteria of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) satisfied by a site in the UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) can be considered as an ordinal measure of its quality against the alternative hypotheses that: a) quality can be measured just dichotomously, by inclusion in the WHL); b) the multiplicity of existing OUV is just meant to capture alternative aesthetic criteria expressed by different cultures. This issue is important for both scientific and policy reasons. To avoid problems of endogeneity and reverse causality, we examine the correlation between the number of satisfied criteria and the evaluation of the site’s quality made by an authoritative travel guidebook that pre-existed UNESCO, the Baedeker’s guide of the early twentieth century. Exploiting a newly assembled dataset on 234 UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS) in 10 European countries from 11 Baedeker’s guidebooks, from 1899 to 1911, we proxy the Baedeker’s evaluations of quality by four measures: (1) total number of citations of the site; (2) weighted number of citations; (3) average length of the paragraphs with at least one citation; and (4) sentiment expressed in the text. All these measures appear positively and significantly correlated with the number of UNESCO criteria that the site satisfies, using a variety of strategies and robustness checks, confirming that they are an informative ordinal proxy for the quality of UNESCO WHS. Moreover, this analysis brings evidence to bear on the debate about the formation and persistence of UNESCO experts’ evaluations over time.

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Using big data to measure cultural tourism in Europe

Borowiecki,

Pedersen,

Mitchell

2024

Tourism Economics

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International tourism statistics are notorious for being overly aggregated, lacking in detailed tourist information, not timely, and often provided only on an annual basis. We suggest a unique, complementary data-driven approach relying on big data collected from Tripadvisor. We obtain a systematic, consistent, and reliable approximation for tourism flows, with high precision, frequency, and depth of information. The approach provides also a list of all tourist attractions in a country. We validate the approach pursued and present one application of the data by illuminating the patterns and changes in travel flows in selected European destinations during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This project opens a range of new research questions and possibilities for tourism economics and cultural economics.

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Lord, How I Want to Be in that Number! On the Blessing of UNESCO World Heritage Listing

Cited by 3 publications

References 36 publications

“Rental Activities Impact on Heritage Buildings Preservation from Residents’ Perceptions: As-Salt City as a Case Study”

“Rental Activities Impact on Heritage Buildings Preservation from Residents’ Perceptions: As-Salt City as a Case Study”

Evaluating the quality of UNESCO World Heritage List: a comparison with the Baedeker’s guidebooks

Using big data to measure cultural tourism in Europe

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