Developing a Reinforced Heritagescape using GIScience

Abstract

AbstractHeritage tourism has emerged as a popular type of tourist activity as the landscape of heritage sites has been recognized as a major tourist attraction. Heritage sites contain complex social spaces created by the interactions and perceptions of the tourists who visit heritage sites and the residents of these sites. Therefore, an analysis of heritage sites is essential in order to understand the sense of place of heritages that can be used as major attractions in heritage tourism. However, despite the importance of heritage sites for tourism development, there has been a lack of theoretical framework to consider the wide range and unique characteristics of heritage sites. In addition, our understanding of heritage sites seems to be exploratory and experimental. As a solution, Garden suggested a theoretical framework, called heritagescape, to consider heritage sites with three guiding principles: (1) boundary, (2) cohesion, and (3) visibility. Although Garden’s heritagescape made an opportunity to a...