World Heritage Listing of Australian Natural Sites: Tourism Stimulus and Its Economic Value

Tisdell, Clement A.; Wilson, Clevo

doi:10.1016/s0313-5926(02)50017-5

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“…World Heritage listing comes relatively low on the list. This shows that mere listing of properties as World Heritage sites does not necessarily increase tourist visitation numbers significantly as argued by Tisdell and Wilson (2002). Clearly birds are one of the most important attractions.…”

Section: Stated Reasons For Visiting O'reilly's/green Mountain Site Amentioning

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Lamington National Park: Its Appeal to Visitors and Their Concerns

Tisdell

Wilson

2004

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management

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Section: Stated Reasons For Visiting O'reilly's/green Mountain Site Amentioning

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Lamington National Park: Its Appeal to Visitors and Their Concerns

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Wilson

2004

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Eagles and McCool (2000) were among the first to suggest that these places actually possessed a brand identity. Tisdell and Wilson (2001) moved toward accepting WH as a brand name, noting that "many regard the listing as prestigious and believe that it acts as a signaling device like a brand name" (abstract, para 1). WH brand values stem from the qualities that each inscribed property possesses (Hall & Piggin, 2003;Leask, 2006), the strict criteria that must be met to be placed on the List and its potential for tourism (Drost, 1996;Fyall & Radic, 2006;Hall & Piggin, 2003;Shackley, 1998;Tisdell, 2010).…”

Section: Wh Brand Value For Tourismmentioning

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Communicating the World Heritage brand: visitor awareness of UNESCO's World Heritage symbol and the implications for sites, stakeholders and sustainable management

King

Halpenny

2014

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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The World Heritage (WH) brand signals property so irreplaceable that its values must be sustained intact in perpetuity. A primary function of the WH symbol, one element of the WH brand, is to prompt positive visitor emotions and behaviors favored by management agencies. This paper investigates if the symbol communicates any message to viewers. To determine visitor recognition and recall of the WH symbol tested against a variety of variables, 1827 visitors to five WH sites in Queensland, Australia and 712 visitors to the WH part of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, USA were surveyed. Sixty percent of visitors to the Queensland sites and 19% of visitors to the Hawaii site were aware of the site's WH status; 96% of Queensland site visitors, and 99% of Hawaii site visitors could not recall what the WH symbol represented. Park agencies appear to take a laissez-faire attitude to branding, have little interest or capacity to brand properly or have strategically restricted usage of the WH brand to de-clutter their brand landscape. This limits opportunities to transmit to visitors and communities why WH properties should be valued and sustained, with significant implications for the long-term sustainability of WH sites.

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“…Fyall, 2006, Shackley, 2006), as well as case studies of individual Sites (e.g for Stonehenge Mason andKuo, 2006, or for Angkor Wager, 1995). The consequences of being listed, in particular, on the number of visitors frequenting these Sites, are studied, for example, in Yang, Lin, and Han (2009) or Tisdell and Wilson (2002). In economics, only a few works deal with the UNESCO World Heritage, such as the doctoral dissertation by van der Aa (2005), the book by Santagata, De Caro, and Marrelli (2008), and the papers by Frey andSantagata (2011).…”

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Imbalance of World Heritage List: Did the UNESCO Strategy Work?

Steiner

Frey

2011

SSRN Journal

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The official intention of the UNESCO World Heritage List is to protect the global heritage.However, the imbalance of the distribution of Sites according to countries and continents is striking. Consequently, the World Heritage Committee launched the Global Strategy for a Balanced, Representative and Credible World Heritage List in 1994. To date, there have not been any empirical analyses conducted to study the impact of this strategy. This paper shows that the imbalance did not decrease and perhaps increased over time, thus reflecting the inability of the Global Strategy to achieve a more balanced distribution of Sites. JEL Classification: Z11, D6, F5, H87Keywords: UNESCO, international organizations, international political economy, global public goods, world heritage  For helpful suggestions, we are indebted to

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World Heritage Listing of Australian Natural Sites: Tourism Stimulus and Its Economic Value

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Cited by 41 publications

References 17 publications

Lamington National Park: Its Appeal to Visitors and Their Concerns

Lamington National Park: Its Appeal to Visitors and Their Concerns

Communicating the World Heritage brand: visitor awareness of UNESCO's World Heritage symbol and the implications for sites, stakeholders and sustainable management

Imbalance of World Heritage List: Did the UNESCO Strategy Work?

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