Concepts & Paradigms:

Recreation Architecture
Assignment

Submitted By:
Amlan Kar
18MRA004
 ICOMOS
International Council on Monuments and Sites
International Cultural Tourism Charter
ICOMOS works for the conservation and protection of cultural heritage places. It is the only
global non-government organization of this kind, which is dedicated to promoting the
application of theory, methodology, and scientific techniques to the conservation of the
architectural and archaeological heritage.
ICOMOS is a network of experts that benefits from the interdisciplinary exchange of its
members, among which are architects, historians, archaeologists, art historians, geographers,
anthropologists, engineers and town planners.
The members of ICOMOS contribute to improving the preservation of heritage, the standards
and the techniques for each type of cultural heritage property: buildings, historic cities,
cultural landscapes and archaeological sites
10546 Individual Members in 151 countries
271 Institutional Members
107 National Committees
28 International Scientific Committees
The International Cultural Tourism Charter: Managing Tourism at Places of Heritage
Significance was embraced by the ICOMOS twelfth General Assembly, Mexico, October, 1999.
Principles and Guidelines for Managing Tourism at Places of Cultural and Heritage
Significance.
Objectives of the Charter
The Objectives of the International Cultural Tourism Charter are:
• To encourage and empower those associated with legacy preservation and the board to
make the hugeness of that legacy available to the host community and guests.
• To encourage and urge tourism to advance and oversee tourism in manners that regard and
upgrade the legacy and living societies of host communities.
• To encourage and support a discourse between preservation interests and tourism about
the significance and delicate nature of legacy spots, assortments and living societies, including
the need to accomplish a reasonable future for them.
• To support those defining plans and arrangements to create point by point, quantifiable
objectives and procedures identifying with the introduction and elucidation of legacy places
and social exercises, with regards to their protection and preservation.
Tourism can broadly add to the abundance of a nation in advancing its social legacy. Sadly, it
can likewise jeopardize it, particularly in the more helpless districts.
The sanction includes six standards and early on sections on the dynamic cooperation among
tourism and social legacy and the ethos and goals of the contract. The destinations of this
contract are to advance and oversee tourism in manners that regard and improve the legacy
and living societies of the host communities, and to empower an exchange between
protection interests and tourism.
It diagrams six standards of social tourism:
• Conservation ought to give well-overseen chances to vacationers and individuals from the
host community to understanding and comprehend the neighborhood legacy and culture
from the outset hand; the connection between legacy spots and tourism is dynamic and ought
to be overseen in a feasible manner for present and who and what is to come;
• Conservation and tourism arranging ought to make a guest experience that is agreeable,
aware, and instructive;
• Host people group and indigenous individuals ought to be associated with making
arrangements for protection and tourism;
• Tourism and protection exercises should profit the host community, improving
advancement and empowering nearby work;
• Tourism projects ought to secure and upgrade regular and social legacy attributes.
In light of the rule that all social and normal legacy has a place with all humanity and in this
manner we all have rights and obligations in what concerns its comprehension and security,
the universal contract on social tourism ponders the need, in a globalization time, to transmit
and regard the qualities that establish the character of a community.
The cultural tourism, an undeniably unpredictable marvel, is a favored media for social
spreading, speaking to the financial return of the speculation done in social legacy, adding to
its nonstop conservation and valuation, yet the opposite side of this action is the huge
progressions of individuals or it's inexistence, that can risk the trustworthiness and quicken
the debasement of social legacy. The harmony between the various rules that standard a
monetary movement and the standards embraced in legacy conservation must be a
collaboration between the community and specialists of the few zones.
The sanction subtleties it Objectives, acquainting its job with encourage and energize those
associated with legacy protection and the board to make the importance of that legacy open
to the host community and guests.
In like manner it empowers and subtleties a lot of exercises that can add to improve the
administration and preservation states of cultural heritage.