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Cultural Tourism and the beds’ number!!!
What is cultural Tourism? Is it the number of beds that
Hotels may contain? Let us read together some
important
extracts of the article entitled
"The
products of Taste and Civilisation":
"The
20th century that characterized by the nations’
movements
and the variety of the means of transport and
telecommunications produced the “cultural tourism” which
search into the other cultures"
‘‘The fact that attracts tourists to Syria is that Syria is
considered the cradle of civilization' as we can find in
Syria the first cities of Man, the first alphabet, and the
inheritance of EBLA Kingdom as well as the Stony dead cities
(ruins)."
"cultural tourism requires
a study which classifies the sites, buildings and houses,
evaluates their functions thoroughly, specifies the streets
and defines their boards in order to protect them . This
study avoids, in general, of the risks and of the priceless
losses, it applies by the adopted standards, the crossing
between the natural landscape and the monumental aspect. For
example, It is not authorized to build a hotel on the land
of the old port which is located in the center of Old
Tartous, It is also not allowed to deform the strong Castle
"El-Hosn" by building a hotel inside as well as to build a
hotel in the middle of the ruins of Palmyra. These standards
authorize the tourist to visit the houses of "Nidam", "Kalouti"
and "Adam" but do not allow him/her to reside at it. We still
remember dismantling of the tourist building at Palmyra on
which the UNESCO protested."
"If we adopted the chart which classifies the places, sites
and buildings and which based on scientific criteria, then
we will extremely enclose the concept of cultural tourism,
and we will succeed in preventing it from being the number
of beds that hotels may contain."
“The non respect towards archaeological and historical
classification and the ignorance of the adopted standards
are facilitating the access to tens of the archaeological
sites and historical by investment companies of which we are
unaware of the origins of their capital. Among these sites
there is Amrit, the Phoenician city, as well as
constructions and dwellings classified."
"We
hope that the tourism projects exceeds the concern of the
number of beds for defining well the
content of cultural
tourism
which attracts tourists to
Syria,
and to
respect the standards which preserve the archaeological
sites from the aspects of consumption in order to engage
with issuing Cultural Catalogue regarding the Syrian
Historic Sites and to recommend the tourists of the cultural
activities and project."
"Syria
has fascinating civilization, she is deep-rooted in tasting
the poetry, arts and excursions . That supposes to start
with the culture rather than its contrary . Today the
culture is able to guide the tourism projects towards the
criteria which exclude the incompetence and the aberration
and protect ‘the products of Taste and Civilisation."
Extracts of the article of
Dr. Diana KHOST
"The
products of Taste and Civilisation".
Amrit Volunteers
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