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Tourisme Durable au Liban Une Approche Innovante dans la Gestion des Paysages Culturels
[Sustainable Tourism in Lebanon An innovative approach in cultural landscape management]

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  • Maya Shames

    (CEPN - Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord - UP13 - Université Paris 13 - USPC - Université Sorbonne Paris Cité - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Socrat Ghadban

    (Lebanese University-Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management)

Abstract

Protecting cultural landscapes is about managing the relation between the living heritage and the physical environment. Since the 19th century, scientists are interested in landscapes as field of research because of their distinctive, interconnected natural and cultural values. In Lebanon, cultural landscapes are affected by the ineffective management and protection as well as the inappropriate land uses. Furthermore, sustainable tourism which has merged in the last decade, is still unable to solve the negative impacts caused by mass tourism on the Lebanese cultural landscape. Therefore, for the purpose of improving sustainable tourism management at cultural landscape, this research aims to explore the characteristics of cultural landscape, through the identification of natural and cultural resources, and to assess their management and protection strategies based on an innovative approach in cultural landscape management. Data were gathered based on nine semi-structured interviews with main stakeholders at Maaser El Shouf and Bkassine and two major national tour operators; in addition to the non-participant observations conducted by the researcher to reveal important facts about different aspects of the cultural landscapes selected. The study revealed that the historical identity of the landscapes is negatively affected by the decline of the agriculture sector and the ineffective protection of the intangible heritage. On the other hand, a scoring system was adopted to measure and evaluate the level of sustainable tourism management; it demonstrated a fairly handled management practices for both landscapes with an advanced performance for Maaser El Shouf.

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  • Maya Shames & Socrat Ghadban, 2016. "Tourisme Durable au Liban Une Approche Innovante dans la Gestion des Paysages Culturels [Sustainable Tourism in Lebanon An innovative approach in cultural landscape management]," Post-Print hal-01343577, HAL.
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    Keywords

    Sustainable Tourism; Cultural landscapes; Management; Natural and Cultural Profiling; Tourisme Durable; Paysages culturels; Gestion; Héritage; Profilage Naturel et Culturel;
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