An Investigation into Tourists’ Cognition of World Heritage Cultural Landscape – Mount Lu

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10.2991/icssr-14.2014.137How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Tourists, World Heritage Cultural landscape, Cognition

Abstract

World Heritage cultural landscape is not well known as a cultural heritage category to most of tourists in China though it has made great contribution to tourism. This paper focuses on tourists’ cognition of World Heritage cultural landscape through a case study on Mount Lu. It explores tourists’ view on what are the values of Mount Lu as World Heritage, what did tourists experience and what is significant for them. It is argued that the cultural value of Mount Lu is hard to be perceived and understood by tourists, and the social and economic values of Mount Lu as World Heritage property are also ambiguous for tourists. It suggests the need to draw attention to look closely at the level of tourists’ understanding of the historical, religious and cultural value of Mount Lu.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qing Xu
PY  - 2014/06
DA  - 2014/06
TI  - An Investigation into Tourists’ Cognition of World Heritage Cultural Landscape – Mount Lu
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Science and Social Research
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 606
EP  - 610
SN  - 2352-5398
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