Araştırma Makalesi

Cultural heritage and tourism: Learning from Lefkara, Cyprus

Cilt: 14 Sayı: 4 25 Aralık 2021
PDF İndir
TR EN

Cultural heritage and tourism: Learning from Lefkara, Cyprus

Abstract

Lefkara village is located in the Southern part of Cyprus and it is an important district in terms of intangible and tangible cultural heritage. The village took the name from the traditional lace making (known as Lefkara or Lefkaritika). Lefkara is a traditional lace work that is recognized on the UNESCO Intangible World Heritage List for protecting the intangible cultural heritage. The village is an important tourist attraction point. Many tourists from different countries as well as local people visit the village to experience local culture. The aim of the research is to question the relationship between cultural heritage and tourism through the case of Lefkara village. As the method of the study, the village is observed through site survey and evaluations have been done. In the light of the data obtained from this observation, a SWOT analysis was made to evaluate the cultural heritage in terms of cultural tourism. Within the scope of the study, strengths and opportunities of Lefkara village is discussed and also, weakness and threats is defined. As a result, future scenarios for the village is discussed and strategies is proposed to for the continuity of the cultural heritage tourism in the light of the SWOT analysis.

Keywords

conservation , rehabilitation , tangible and intangible cultural heritage , cultural tourism

Kaynakça

  1. Bağışkan, Tuncer (2005). Kıbrıs'ta Osmanlı Türk Eserleri. Turkish Cypriot Association of Museum Lovers. p. 196.
  2. Debeş, T. (2011) Cultural tourism: a neglected dimension of tourism industry, Anatolia, 22:2, 234-251.
  3. Ho, P.S.Y. & McKercher, B. (2004) Managing heritage resources as tourism products, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 9:3, 255-266
  4. ICOMOS (1999) International cultural tourism charter: managing tourism at places of heritage significance, https://www.icomos.org/charters/tourism_e.pdf. (accessed in 20.12.2020).
  5. Lussetyowati, T. (2015) Preservation and Conservation through Cultural Heritage Tourism, Case Study: Musi Riverside Palembang, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 184, pp. 401 – 406.
  6. McKercher, B. & Ho, P.S.Y. (2006) Assessing the Tourism Potential of Smaller Cultural and Heritage Attractions, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 14:5, 473-488.
  7. Park, H. Y. (2014). Heritage Tourism. Routledge.
  8. Poria, Y., Butler, R. and Airey, D. (2003) The Core of Heritage Tourism, Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 238–254.
  9. Santa, E. D. and Tiatco, S. A. (2019) Tourism, heritage and cultural performance: Developing a modality of heritage tourism, Tourism Management Perspectives 31 (2019) 301–309.
  10. Smith, M. K. (2016). Issues in cultural tourism studies. ((3rd ed). Routledge).

Kaynak Göster

APA
Mısırlısoy, D. (2021). Cultural heritage and tourism: Learning from Lefkara, Cyprus. Kent Akademisi, 14(4), 1033-1042. https://doi.org/10.35674/kent.983631