Vandalism and tourism
- A few weeks ago it was news that a tourist wrote two names and a date on a wall of the Roman Colosseum. However, according to UNESCO, vandalism has very little influence on the destruction of heritage compared to other factors.
A few weeks ago it was news that a tourist wrote two names and a date on a wall of the Roman Colosseum. Soon after, another tourist was filmed in the Colosseum itself marking the letter N. Last week, in Japan, in the city of Nara, a Canadian tourist was capturing by writing his name in an 8th-century Buddhist temple.
Although these attitudes are condemnable, according to UNESCO, vandalism has very little influence on the destruction of heritage in the face of other factors.
Tourism is the most harmful factor, since in 1985 they estimated that the mass affected 8% of the historical spaces protected by tourism and 10 years ago, in 2013, tourist overexploitation affected 80% of the spaces.
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