• World Heritage, Tourism and Sustainability on-line course.
    • During this interactive on-line course students learn about Canada's 15 UNESCO World Heritage Sites and discuss their potential as tourism attractions and the various potential opportunities, threats and challenges that face sites, site managers and nearby communities. Underlying themes in this course are the concepts of sustainability and integrated management planning to help address the question, "How can we simultaneously protect our World Heritage assets while promoting them for successful tourism development?"  In 2009, the course was delivered through Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada. For more information contact Wanda George at wanda.george@msvu.ca or click to view this pamphlet.

                    Quebec City, Canada     

  • World Heritage Sites and Tourism: Key Issues in Management - Workshops in 2010
    • WHTRN is  an international collaborative network of researchers, consultants and scholars in the new and challenging multidisciplinary field of tourism and heritage. In June 2010, workshops were conducted at two international conferences, the WORLD HERITAGE AND TOURISM: MANAGING FOR THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL CONFERENCE, Quebec City, Canada and the HERITAGE 2010 CONFERENCE, Evora, Portugal, as part of an initiative of the WHTRN to share views and experiences specifically related to current and emerging management issues at Cultural World Heritage (WH) sites and their immediate surroundings. To focus the workshop on common issues in a range of case studies and eventually discuss common approaches and management tools, a conceptual framework was introduced. The objective of the workshops were to open new perspectives on the actual role of tourism and on methods for managing the balance between conservation policies and tourism strategies on WH sites. Dr. Christina Cameron, Canada Research Chair on Built Heritage, Montreal, Canada was keynote speaker at both workshops. Collectively, about 100 individuals attended the workshops. Proceedings of the workshops are still in progress.

                                                                   

               Bob McKercher at WHTRN workshop Quebec City 2010           Wanda George at WHTRN workshop Quebec City 2010

 

  • Memoryscapes of the Great War (1914-2014) - Identified, Valorized, Questioned and Visited -
    WHTRN Workshop in Quebec City, June 2012

  • The goal of the workshop was to gain a better understanding of the opinions and perspectives that people have about the values and preservation of war heritage and memoryscapes and the role of tourism. The workshop involved 5 presentations followed by an interactive discussion period. Presentations and/or papers from the workshop:
    • ​ Visiting Battlefields: Some Reflections from a Professorial Perspective, Dr. Desmond Morton, Hiram Mills Professor Emeritus, McGill University
    • What was ‘GREAT’ About the First World War? What should we remember, celebrate or forget - and why?, Dr. Brian S. Osborne, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada 
    • Roads and Remembrance: Meaning, Memory and Forgetting along Australia’s Great Ocean Road, Rosemary Kerr, University of Sydney, Australia. Paper.
    • Holocaust Roadscapes: Retracing the ‘Death Marches’ in Contemporary Europe, Tim Cole, University of Bristol, UK
    • The GREAT WAR (1914 - 1918) - One Hundred Years Later, Dr. Wanda George, Mount Saint Vincent University and Dr. Myriam Jansen-Verbeke Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

Copies of these presentations are too large to post on this site but are available in a Dropbox folder. If you want a copy of the presentations or to know more about the Workshop, please contact wanda.george@msvu.ca.