{"title":"The sociocultural impacts of World Heritage Site designation on local communities.","authors":"Takamitsu Jimura","doi":"10.1079/9781786392688.0096","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\n This chapter discusses the sociocultural impacts of tourism generally before focusing on the sociocultural impacts of World Heritage status and tourism at World Heritage sites (WHSs). Changes in social pathology, congestion and privacy, community 'feel' and 'spirit', level of heritage conservation, and interactions between local people and visitors are discussed, as well as local people's views on these changes. A brief case study is presented of the 'Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama', a cultural WHS in Japan.","PeriodicalId":445221,"journal":{"name":"World Heritage Sites: tourism, local communities and conservation activities","volume":"201 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"World Heritage Sites: tourism, local communities and conservation activities","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786392688.0096","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This chapter discusses the sociocultural impacts of tourism generally before focusing on the sociocultural impacts of World Heritage status and tourism at World Heritage sites (WHSs). Changes in social pathology, congestion and privacy, community 'feel' and 'spirit', level of heritage conservation, and interactions between local people and visitors are discussed, as well as local people's views on these changes. A brief case study is presented of the 'Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama', a cultural WHS in Japan.