TY - JOUR
KW - Australia
KW - Awareness
KW - Creativity
KW - Georgetown [Queensland]
KW - heritage tourism
KW - Malaysia
KW - Melaka
KW - Person-place bonding
KW - Place attachment
KW - Queensland
KW - sense of place
KW - West Malaysia
KW - World heritage site
KW - World Heritage Sites (WHSs)
KW - cultural heritage
KW - heritage tourism
KW - sense of place
KW - Sustainability
AU - Siow-Kian Tan
AU - Siow-Hooi Tan
AU - Yon-Sin Kok
AU - Shay-Wei Choon
AB - The pressure of tourism on heritage sites is threatening the cultural heritage of such places. Local community voices should be studied in order to understand what and how to preserve the intangible cultural heritage at WHSs as they are the main players of this intangible heritage. With reference to the concepts of place attachment, this study examines the elements of  person-place bonding  that may contribute to the sustainability of intangible cultural heritage, and how these elements help the sustainability of heritage tourism. In-depth interviews, observations were conducted in the WHSs of George Town and Melaka, Malaysia. A total of 32 documents were analysed. The  Sense of Loss ,  Sense of Justice  and  Sense of Mission  emerged as the three main themes of  person-place bonding . This bonding motivates community participation in sustaining the intangible cultural heritage they value. Besides,  awareness  and  creativity  are two vital codes that link the ecosystem of WHSs.
DO - 10.1016/j.tourman.2018.02.012
N1 - Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
N2 - The pressure of tourism on heritage sites is threatening the cultural heritage of such places. Local community voices should be studied in order to understand what and how to preserve the intangible cultural heritage at WHSs as they are the main players of this intangible heritage. With reference to the concepts of place attachment, this study examines the elements of  person-place bonding  that may contribute to the sustainability of intangible cultural heritage, and how these elements help the sustainability of heritage tourism. In-depth interviews, observations were conducted in the WHSs of George Town and Melaka, Malaysia. A total of 32 documents were analysed. The  Sense of Loss ,  Sense of Justice  and  Sense of Mission  emerged as the three main themes of  person-place bonding . This bonding motivates community participation in sustaining the intangible cultural heritage they value. Besides,  awareness  and  creativity  are two vital codes that link the ecosystem of WHSs.
SP - 376
EP - 387
TI - Sense of place and sustainability of intangible cultural heritage - The case of George Town and Melaka
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85042403804&doi=10.1016%2fj.tourman.2018.02.012&partnerID=40&md5=30e00ca6c0b2f8820b1a4195ad32c236
VL - 67
SN - 02615177 (ISSN)
ER -