Egypt
- Unesco - Integrating Heritage And Tourism
UNESCO UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova underlined the importance of better integrating cultural heritage preservation and sustainable tourism during the Roundtable on World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism, held in Miami on 19 March. She...
- Egypt's Four Year Membership Of The Unesco Committee Expired
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) During the eighteenth session of the General Assembly the World Heritage Convention, which took place during the General Conference of UNESCO from 7- 9 November, Egypt and Jordan concluded their four-year-long membership...
- World Heritage Map
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=319It's a slow time of year for Egyptology news, so here's a little something just slightly off topic, for those of you who are interested - a complete map of the World Heritage sites, including those in Egypt,...
- World Heritage Alliance
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/202 "On the 18 November 2005 Expedia, Inc. and the United Nations Foundation announced the launch of the World Heritage Alliance, an innovative joint initiative to promotesustainable tourism and awareness of World Heritage...
- Convention Concerning The Protection Of The World Cultural And Natural Heritage
"The General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization meeting in Paris from 17 October to 21 November 1972, at its seventeenth session,Noting that the cultural heritage and the natural heritage are increasingly...
Egypt
Unesco World Heritage sites
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/16/news/trherit.php?rss
One of the International Herald Tribune's multi page reviews of an international heritage issue. This looks at the role of Unesco, the relative value of adding more sites to the list, and how achieving World Heritage status is used to boost the economy via tourism: "Unesco's manifesto sounded simple enough- It set up a World Heritage Convention in 1972 to protect cultural and natural sites of 'outstanding universal value.' The convention established a World Heritage Committee, a rotating group of 15 (now 21) nations, and a World Heritage Fund to provide oversight, technical assistance and loans. The World Heritage Center in Paris oversees the program, and the committee annually decides on new designations. It has become clear, though, that for many sites, getting on the list might be more an end goal than the beginning of conservation efforts. Once the four- to five-year nomination process is over, Unesco generally doesn't provide funds or technical assistance from its 35-person staff (plus consultants), nor regular monitoring to ensure that the ambitious plans come to fruition. . . . Penin Pedersen, the Unesco tourism official, said there was no solid evidence that World Heritage nomination leads to an increase of tourism. The circumstantial evidence, however, is strong. The nomination of Calakmul in 2002 literally put it on the map. "
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- Unesco - Integrating Heritage And Tourism
UNESCO UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova underlined the importance of better integrating cultural heritage preservation and sustainable tourism during the Roundtable on World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism, held in Miami on 19 March. She...
- Egypt's Four Year Membership Of The Unesco Committee Expired
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) During the eighteenth session of the General Assembly the World Heritage Convention, which took place during the General Conference of UNESCO from 7- 9 November, Egypt and Jordan concluded their four-year-long membership...
- World Heritage Map
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=319It's a slow time of year for Egyptology news, so here's a little something just slightly off topic, for those of you who are interested - a complete map of the World Heritage sites, including those in Egypt,...
- World Heritage Alliance
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/202 "On the 18 November 2005 Expedia, Inc. and the United Nations Foundation announced the launch of the World Heritage Alliance, an innovative joint initiative to promotesustainable tourism and awareness of World Heritage...
- Convention Concerning The Protection Of The World Cultural And Natural Heritage
"The General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization meeting in Paris from 17 October to 21 November 1972, at its seventeenth session,Noting that the cultural heritage and the natural heritage are increasingly...