Tourismus und immaterielles Kulturerbe
Abstract
Tourism development based on the living culture of a region is important for high-lighting the cultural features, which distinguish one region from another. Knowledge and skills of the local people, social practices, rituals, festive events, crafts etc. con-stitute the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of a community (UNESCO, 2003). Knowledge and practices concerning nature are one of the domains of ICH and un-like crafts, rituals and festive events they are not widely utilized in the cultural tour-ism offer. Local knowledge about nature is part of the culture and is related to dif-ferent practices, beliefs, rituals and oral traditions (Vandebroek, Reyes-García, de Albuquerque, Bussmann, & Pieroni, 2011; Berkes, 2017), but these are underesti-mated in the development of tourism offers, as well as in the scientific literature on ICH. The integration of local knowledge in the tourism offer is also a way of cultural transmission, which contributes to safeguarding the ICH (UNESCO, 2003). Since ICH is very vulnerable to negative impacts, like commodification and appropriation and difficult to protect, because it is constantly recreated (Lenzerini, 2011; Conway, 2014; Sotiriadis & Sotiriadis, 2017) the balance between safeguarding and utilization is a big challenge. The study will focus on this challenge and will try to provide the answers to the fol-lowing questions: (1.) How can ICH be safeguarded if it is constantly recreated? (2.) What is the potential for transmission of local knowledge about nature to visi-tors/tourists, migrants etc.? (3.) What is the significance of local knowledge for the tourism and leisure offer? Can it serve as cultural attraction? Can it enhance social capital? Case studies will be conducted in different parts of Lower Austria and the knowledge and practices of locals will be documented and analyzed. The status quo of the inte-gration of local knowledge in the tourism offer, as well as pathways for future de-velopment will be the result of the study.
Publikationen
Nature-related knowledge as intangible cultural heritage: safeguarding and tourism utilisation in Austria
Autoren: Katelieva, M; Muhar, A; Penker, M Jahr: 2020
Originalbeitrag in Fachzeitschrift
Heritage tourism products based on traditional nature-related knowledge: assessment of cultural, social, and environmental factors in cases from rural Austria
Autoren: Katelieva, M; Muhar, A Jahr: 2022
Originalbeitrag in Fachzeitschrift
Mitarbeiter*innen
Andreas Muhar
Ao.Univ.Prof.i.R. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Andreas Muhar
andreas.muhar@boku.ac.at
BOKU Projektleiter*in
01.10.2017 - 30.09.2022
BOKU Partner
Externe Partner
IMC Fachhochschule Krems
Maria Katelieva-Platzer
Koordinator