Heritage Tourism Management Quiz

What is the responsibility of the World Heritage Center (WHC)?

• Service Management

• Public participation in cultural heritage site management

• Managing and Monitoring of Tourism in World Heritage sites

• Responsibility of World Heritage Center (WHC)

What is the main working tool on World Heritage besides the text of the Convention?

• The World Heritage List

• The Operational Guidelines

• The World Heritage Committee

• The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)

What is the primary duty of each State Party to the World Heritage Convention?

• To ensure the protection, conservation, and presentation of the cultural and natural heritage situated on its territory

• To maintain the values for which the site was inscribed

• To integrate the protection of heritage into comprehensive planning programs

• To adopt a general policy which aims to give the cultural and natural heritage a function in the life of the community

What is the role of IUCN in relation to the World Heritage Convention?

• Providing technical assistance

• Evaluating sites for inclusion on the list

• Monitoring the state of conservation of World Heritage natural properties

• Influencing, encouraging, and assisting societies to conserve nature

What is the purpose of the Tentative List in the World Heritage Convention?

• To evaluate properties nominated for inscription

• To identify properties for nomination

• To list sites with unique natural features

• To serve as a conservation tool for endangered sites

What is the definition of Natural Heritage according to UNESCO?

• Intangible cultural heritage embedded into cultural and natural heritage artefacts

• Artefacts, monuments, and sites with historic significance

• Natural features, geological and physiographical formations

• Cultural landscapes and properties of outstanding global significance

What was the starting point for the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage?

• The construction of the Aswan Dam in Egypt

• The Nubia Campaign

• The establishment of the World Heritage List

• The internationalization of heritage movement

What is the main instrument established under the Convention of 1972?

• The Operational Guidelines

• The World Heritage Center

• The UNESCO World Heritage List

• The World Heritage List

What is the mission of UNESCO in relation to the protection of cultural and natural heritage?

• To build peace through international cooperation in Education, the Sciences, and Culture

• To influence, encourage, and assist societies to conserve nature

• To evaluate properties nominated for inscription on the World Heritage List

• To coordinate the exchange of international expertise and assistance

What is the purpose of the World Heritage Committee?

• To develop information material for various stakeholders

• To provide technical assistance for conservation

• To monitor the condition and preservation efforts of sites

• To evaluate sites for inclusion on the list