Politicization and Commodification of Tourism: Implications for George Town World Heritage Site

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چکیده

The inscription of World Heritage Status to both George Town and Melaka in 2008 had given tremendous impacts terms tourist arrivals the growth economy. While has pinned Malaysia on global tourism map, rapid pace development resulted a series problems brought by commodification. Tourism gentrification, outmigration change building uses are among common symptoms Taking as case study, this paper aims explore implications commodification, particularly physical local residents. This study is essential identify stage commodification area, whose based heritage Based site observations semi-structured interviews with residents, administrative staffs business owners several arguments put forward paper. First, phased process taken place Town, triggered significant changes lifestyle, community development, property market values land use development. Second, shifted from free trading port productivist heritage-scape, government being principal influencing factor. Findings reveal that does not necessarily destroy meaning urban destination, but also helps improve economic status quality life Future research should be conducted other Sites compare Site.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: International journal of academic research in business & social sciences

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['2308-3816', '2222-6990']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6007/ijarbss/v12-i12/14916