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Sustainable Archaeological Tourism Through Standards for Good Practice

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Archaeological heritage tourism may be considered as a specific facet of public archaeology, while it refers to a certain number of international charters and conventions. There is probably no single way to manage a touristic project in relationship with an archaeological site, but defining standards of good practice may help with the implementation. Effective and sustainable archaeological tourism is based on several principles, including training and research, preservation and protection, quality and authenticity and interpretation and cooperation between all partners.

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    This paper is the German adaption of a conference held at the session Tourism and Archaeology at the EAA Annual conference on the 10–14 September 2014 in Istanbul (Turkey).

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    The ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Charter of 1999 (2002) is currently under review. An international symposium and workshop has taken place in Florence leading to an ICOMOS ICTC Florence Declaration 2017.

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    During the conference on archaeology and tourism in Switzerland held in Thun (Switzerland) from the 8–10 November 2102, four workshops thought about collaboration between tourism specialists and archaeologists, the development of tourist products in relation with archaeology in Switzerland, public relations and marketing of archaeological sites and the links between authenticity, traditions and customs. The results were published a year later (Dunning and Willems 2013)

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  1. The United States National Committee for ICOMOS (US/ICOMOS), Washington, DC, USA, The International Scientific Committee for Archaeological Heritage Management (ICOMOS/ICAHM), Cultural Site Research and Management, Baltimore, MD, USA, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Douglas C. Comer

  2. Helsinki University, Faculty of Arts, Friends of ICAHM, Baltimore, MD, USA, AW Heritage Consultancy, Jyväskylä, Finland, Helsinki, Finland

    Annemarie Willems

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Thierstein, C.D. (2019). Sustainable Archaeological Tourism Through Standards for Good Practice. In: Comer, D.C., Willems, A. (eds) Feasible Management of Archaeological Heritage Sites Open to Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92756-5_6

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