Publisher's Synopsis
Heritage conservation and management are vital concerns in Australia and New Zealand. Increasing numbers of people want to experience indigenous culture and visit national parks and historic buildings. The challenge is to enable them to do this while maintaining heritage values and appeal. Approaches to heritage conservation and management are changing. The conventional approach has been to take a resource-based approach, where the visitor is of secondary concern. This work addresses the human dimension: it focuses on the interests, values and needs of those who want heritage conserved, yet available for people to experience.;This new edition has more emplasis on the use of strategic planning and evaluation as a tool for managing heritage, more detail on visitor management practices such as interpretation, marketing, visitor monitoring and research, and a wider range of case studies from differing environments and localities in Australia and New Zealand. It provides further discussion on the tourism dimension of heritage management, and has expanded coverage of indigenous perspectives on heritage management. It is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students of heritage management, tourism and visitor management, recreation, leisure and resource management, geography and environmental management.
