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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/13840| Title: | Strategies for Sustainable Tourism at the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang, China |
| Authors: | Martha, Demas Neville, Agnew |
| Keywords: | Strategies for Sustainable Tourism at the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang, China |
| Issue Date: | 2015 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Description: | This publication addresses a complex and multifaceted problem at an iconic World Heritage site in far northwestern China. The site, the Mogao Grottoes near the oasis town of Dunhuang in Gansu Province, has experienced an explosive rise in tourism over the last 10–15 years. Pressure from visitors for access to the cave temples containing sublime Buddhist art dating from the fourth to the fourteenth centuries CE has reached crisis dimensions and threatens the fragile cave paintings and sculpture while simultaneously degrading the visitor experience through overcrowding in the confi ned spaces of the rock-cut caves and along narrow access walkways. Congestion management is an important element of visitor management at heritage sites, but often sites are suffi ciently robust and durable to withstand a degree of overcrowding—it is the visitor who is disadvantaged |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/13840 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-319-09000-9 |
| Appears in Collections: | Archeology and Heritage Management |
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