Factors affecting the development of Lipu Yi costumes: intangible cultural heritage tourism

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

Process-centric Cataloguing of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Museums and archives collect and store documentation of processes of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), such as craftsmanship skills, acts, and events recorded in videos, audio tapes, manuscripts, photos, and transcriptions. Such recordings are typically catalogued in an object-centric way as documents, using schemas such as Dublin Core. Also in event-centric models the focus has been on tangi...

Cypriot Intangible Cultural Heritage: Digitizing Folk Dances

Cyprus has a long and rich history of dance tradition which unfortunately, year after year, tends to be forgotten; thus, it is our duty to help documenting and disseminating our dance heritage to the younger generations. In this work, we aim to preserve the Cypriot folk dance heritage, creating a state-of-the-art publicly accessible digital archive of folk dances. Our dance library, apart from ...

Cultural Heritage and Identity in the Contemporary Tourism Development

Culture and heritage have been increasingly recognised as means of sustainable social and economic development and an important element of tourist motivation. However, the recent development of cultural tourism indicates the problem of massification, offering conventional products based on serial reproductions of culture. Due to factors such as globalisation and the importance of cultural diver...

The Competing Objectives Underlying the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Traditional knowledge has played, and still plays, a vital role in the daily lives of the vast majority of people. Traditional knowledge is essential to the food security and health of millions of people in the developing world. ... In addition, ... the use and continuous development by local farmers of plant varieties and the sharing and diffusion of these varieties and the knowledge associate...