Feasible Management of Archaeological Heritage Sites Open to Tourism

Introduction: Feasibility as the Cornerstone of Effective Management of Public Archaeological Sites.- Chapter 1 - Cultural Value and Sustainable Development: A framework for assessing the tourism potential of heritage places.- Chapter 2 - Managing Herculaneum in context: measuring benefits for people and places.- Chapter 3 - Vikings and World Heritage - Towards New Strategic Synergies?.- Chapter 4  - The Tyranny of Materiality - Sacred Landscapes, Tourism and Community Narratives.- Chapter 5 - Sustainable archaeological tourism through standards for good practice.- Chapter 6 - Archaeotourism, Archaeological Site Preservation, and Local Communities.- Chapter 7 - The Curse of the Betrothed: Evaluating the Relationship between Archaeology and Tourism in Croatia AD 2017.- Chapter 8 - Archaeology and tourism in Ireland: bridging two cultures.- Chapter 9 - Archaeologist for a week - Voluntourism in Archaeology.- Chapter 10 - Archaeotourism Spaces in Present-day Poland: Thoughts on Reconstruction and Re-enactments.- Chapter 11 - The European Route of Megalithic Culture - Pathways to Europe's earliest stone architecture.- Chapter 12 - Westphalian Megaliths go touristic: Archaeological research as a base for development of tourism.- Chapter 13 - Archaeology and Tourism - Problems and Possibilities: An Example from West Sweden.- Chapter 14 - The eScape Project: Combining Archaeology and Art to Merge the Past with the Present.- Conclusion - Feasibility Assessment at Public Archaeological Heritage Sites. 

Douglas C. Comer is Principal, Cultural Site Research and Management, Inc. (CSRM) (www.culturalsite.com). CSRM operates in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, South America, and Central America. Dr. Comer is President of ICAHM and the United StateNational Committee forICOMOS (US/ICOMOS)
Dr. Comer specializes in planning for the management and interpretation of archaeological sites and landscapes, and in the use of aerial and satellite remote sensing for archaeological research and resource protection. He is a recipient of NSF, SERDP, NCPTT, NASA, ESRI, Kaplan Fund, GeoEye, and other grants, and has published extensively on cultural resource management and the use technology in archaeology.Dr. Comer has served as the Chief of the U.S. National Park Service Applied Archaeology Center, a Fulbright Scholar in Cultural Resource Management, Chair of the Maryland Governors Advisory Committee on Archaeology, a Research Fellow at the Southeast Asian Center for Archaeology and the Fine Arts (SPAFA) in Bangkok and the American Center for Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Chair of the Nominating Committee for the Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA), and a Trustee for the United States Committee for the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS).
Annemarie Willems is the executive director for Friends of ICAHM, an organisation that has been created to support the mission of ICAHM through the dissemination of information concerning world heritage.  Since 2016 Annemarie Willems has her own consultancy practice in heritage management, AW Heritage Consultancy. Annemarie Willems holds a MA in Cultural Heritage from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Upon obtaining her Master's degree in 2007 Annemarie became active at the Centre for International Heritage Activities (CIE) in Amsterdam (currently in Leiden), The Netherlands, as 'Project Officer in CulturalHeritage'. From 2011 until 2015 she lived