The paper investigates change processes regarding the managerial aspects of organizing Cultural Heritage activities in China. The focus is not on the historical and artistic meanings of archeological discoveries in themselves; nor on the technical, scientific, and methodological repercussions of...

Machu Picchu is among the world's most controversial heritage sites. It represents a case where raising money through ticket sales and other activities, rather than an opportunity to fund site preservation, in fact constitutes a major threat to the survival of the site through overexploitation....

The paper is based on a field research in 2008/9 on the Chinese sites on Unesco World Heritage List (UWHL). The cases under study offer some insight into the complexity of the management of Chinese cultural organizations, as well as the problem of the presentation of China’s heritage in a new...

In September 1997 a regulation (law No. 352/1997) gave to Pompeii a new status: from its previous standing as a local branch of the Ministry of Culture (the Soprintendenza) it was configured as an autonomous entity (Soprintendenza autonoma). In July 2008, the Italian Prime Minister declared a...

The authors have studied the site of the Historical Sanctuary of Machu Picchu (HSM) over the last decade from an organizational/managerial point of view, based on field research and documents analysis. What follows is a sort of a virtual appendix of the article “Managing Machu Picchu:...